Nadine Appelhans is a Senior Researcher at the Habitat Unit. Her research focuses on urbanisation, informal urban development, and urban mobility studies in African cities. She studied Urban Planning at the HafenCity University in Hamburg, where she also received her PhD in 2016. She was a researcher at the Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) (2014-15), […]
Prof. Uwe Altrock holds the chair of Planning Theory and Urban Regeneration at the University of Kassel, Germany. He is the first editor of Year Book of Urban Regeneration in Germany for more than 10 years. His research interests are urban regeneration and urban governance in Germany, China and many other developing countries.
Dr Li Fan is a senior researcher at the University of Kassel, Germany. She has worked both as a practitioner and a researcher in China and in Germany. Her ongoing research interests are urban regeneration and urban heritage conservation in China and in Germany. She is a German Chancellor Fellow, a DAAD fellow and a […]
Josefa Maria Stiegler is a political scientist working at the intersections of feminist security studies, critical urban studies and decolonial theory with a focus on Latin America. With an interdisciplinary background and degrees in urban studies (Malmö University) and gender studies (University of Vienna), she is interested in bringing feminist security studies and urban studies into dialogue. Josefa is at the […]
Constantina Theodorou is an architect and urban researcher. As a PhD candidate of Urbanism NTUA she is exploring emerging assemblages of geology-infrastructure-politics under the spectrum of climate change. Parallel to academic research, she is engaged with performative practices in urban space (walking lectures, video performances, reactivation of empty spaces) with collaborations/participation among others with Greek Film […]
Johan Pries is a historical geographer at Lund university researching and teaching popular movements, everyday life and spatial planning.
Bruna Montuori is a researcher and interdisciplinary designer based in between London and Rio de Janeiro. She is concluding her PhD at the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, where she investigates the intersection between space, narratives, and insurgent citizenship through the work of Redes da Maré organisation in Rio de Janeiro. Her research […]
Syeda Jenifa Zahan is a feminist and postcolonial urban studies scholar whose work focuses on intersectional relations of power, practices and politics of urban dwelling and structural violence of urbanisation in the Global South. Since the award of her PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2020, Jenifa has undertaken a unique intellectual practice […]
Rob Kitchin is a professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and the Department of Geography. He was the principal investigator on the Programmable City project (2013-18), the Building City Dashboards project (2016-21), the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017), and the All-Island Research Observatory (2005-2017). In the book, The Right to the Smart City. Kitchin and co-authors provide a critical reflection on whether another smart city is possible and what such a […]
Camila Freitas de Souza is a Latin American interdisciplinary scholar whose research encompasses urban studies, gender studies, and human rights. She has been part of projects focusing on Mexico, Brazil, and Chile as case studies, while addressing issues such as social (in)justices, colonial and geopolitical power relations, smart urbanism, and grassroots movements. She is now […]