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The paper of Storytelling of and for Planning was prepared in cooperation with Sindi Haxhija in 2019 as part of the work for ISOCARP Institute on the EU Horizon 2020 funded project +CityxChange. “Storytelling of and for Planning: Urban Planning through Participatory Narrative-building” was presented at the 56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress. Download the paper. Storytelling is the oldest form of …
The chapter ‘Co-Creating Local Energy Transitions Through Smart Cities: Piloting a Prosumer-Oriented Approach’ was published in November 2020 as part of the 16th ISOCARP – International Society of City and Regional Planners Review of World Planning Practice: Post-Oil Urbanism, announced at the start of the 56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress. Resulting from the H2020 project +CityxChange, we published the article which provides a …
The approach for Storytelling workshops was developed in October 2019 as part of the work for ISOCARP Institute on the EU Horizon 2020 funded project +CityxChange. Download the report. “This deliverable describes the approach for the Storytelling workshops and reports on the results of the first workshop in Vienna in April 2019. The workshop was planned back-to-back with the PED (Positive …
This thesis completed the MSc Architecture at the Technical University Braunschweig (GER). It was submitted in March 2019. Download the full thesis. The global population is rising to unprecedented heights which, combined with the continuing urbanisation, leads to the majority of humanity residing in urban areas already today. While the population growth in many countries and cities in the Western world …
In November 2018, the LSE Urban Age Conference ‘Developing Urban Futures’ took place in Addis Ababa (ET). The Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft made the attendance possible through six travel grant for german-speaking students. Download my conference summary. From the 29 to 20 November, researchers, policymakers, politicians, and entrepreneur came together in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with the common goal to explore ways …
The paper was presented at the ResNexus 2018 Conference at the Wageningen University (NL) on 8 November 2018. Download paper. The concept of the urban resilience nexus encompasses various sectors of the urban dynamics and aims for a better understanding of linkages and interplays. This paper looks at these interrelations, mainly of water, the environment, and provision of basic services …
The paper was presented at the 54th ISOCARP World Planning Congress in Bodø (NO). Download paper. This paper aims to examine the interrelations of spatial characteristics to the often-unjust distribution of climate change risk and vulnerabilities and develop a methodological approach for Kampala to redress this situation. The research intends to increase the understanding of spatial equity and proposes a …
This thesis was written as part of MSc Urban Management and Development at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL). The research was part of IHS’s East Africa Research Fund (EARF) project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and submitted in September 2018. Download the full thesis. Rapid urbanisation steadily increases the importance …
The paper was presented during the African Centre for Cities International Conference 2018 in Cape Town (SA). It was produced in collaboration with Pilar Pérez Flores. Download paper. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa face increasingly forms of settlements in the urban and self-planned settlements1 in the peri-urban area, where the lack of security of tenure, land conflicts, and informal land markets overwhelm …
The paper was presented during the African Centre for Cities International Conference 2018 in Cape Town (SA). Download paper. Today’s cities and metropolitan areas face new and rising challenges while the process of planning becomes more complex. The amount of data, the geographical size, the challenges of sustainability, rising social and spatial inequality and even faster urbanizing and transforming urban …