Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniela Zupan

European Cities and Urban Heritage - Profile

The Junior Professorship in European Cities and Urban Heritage operates at the interface of urban studies and heritage studies. It focuses on transformation processes in European cities. This comprises research on the built urban structures and their discursive negotiation, on the history of planning ideas and paradigm changes, on policy mobilities and their influence on contemporary urban development, as well as on the socio-spatial, political and economic trends that shaped and continue to shape urban development in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Geographically, the Junior Professorship in European Cities and Urban Heritage focuses on developments in Germany, Austria, and the (post-)socialist countries. Current research topics comprise authoritarian urbanism, housing studies and post-socialist urban developments.

»Tales of Transformation«: Gemeinsamer Workshop zu städtischen Wandelprozessen in postsowjetischen und postkolonialen Kontexten >>>mehr

Courses offered
The current range of courses for the summer semester 2025 can be found here.

On 19.11.2024 Ayşegül Can will give a guest lecture on “Violence against Istanbul and strategies for resistance“. The online lecture is open to the public and is organized within the European Cities course.

On 14.01.2025 Tim White will give a guest lecture on “Housing ideology and urban residential change: The rise of co-living in the financialized city“. The online lecture is open to the public and is organized within the European Cities course.

Courses offered
The current range of courses for the winter semester 2024/25 can be found here.