European Cities and Urban Heritage - Profile
The chair 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, we focus 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 Postsocialist and Postcolonial Transformation. Perspectives from Literary and Urban Studies. Die Publikation zu unserem interdisziplinären Lehrprojekt, welches in Zusammenarbeit der Bauhaus Universität Weimar und der Technischen Universität Chemnitz durchgeführt wurde, ist erschienen und kann hier heruntergeladen werden.
On September 1, 2025, the DFG-funded research project Authoritarian Urbanism in the 21st Century: Progressive Urban Design and Participatory Planning in Hungary and Serbia started at the chair European Cities and Urban Heritage.
