Urban Development | Spatial Analytics
Since October 2020, I am pursuing a PhD at the Anthropolis Chair (IRT SystemX / University Paris Saclay / CentraleSupélec) on the topic of developing human-centred scenarios for Urban Mobility Futures. With an urbanism background, the focus lies on understanding spatial, socio-economic, and technological trends in the field of urban mobility to co-create scenarios which can inform policy-making, as well …
As part of my PhD research at the Anthropolis Chair, a seminar on urbanisation and mobility was organised on 7 December 2020. The session explored how urbanisation and urban mobility influence and shape each other. The discussion centred around some key concepts, events and trends of the past, the present, and the future. The following discussion explored some individual futures. With …
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 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 …
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 …
The project was done as part of the master studies at the Technical University Braunschweig (GER). The course Advanced Urban Analytics was held at the Institute for Urban Development and Design Methodology and supervised by Prof. Uwe Brederlau, Amir Touhidi, Gustavo de Siqueira, and Jonathan Nestler. The results were published in the project booklet ‘Advanced Urban Analytics.’ Download booklet. How can …
During the 7th European Conference on African Studies in Basel (CH), I presented together with Rebekka Keuss an analysis of the nocturnal characteristics of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. Download presentation. When “cities, like cats, will reveal themselves after dark”, as English poet Rupert Brooke claimed over a century ago, then what is it that nightlife in a Malawian city …