Completed doctorates in the International Doctorate Programme European Urban Studies and the Research Group Urban Heritage (UH)
2015
Xoliswa Kayumba Kauert, Dr. phil.
"Urban Aesthetics of Lusaka: From Parastatal to Commercial Architecture in the capital City of Zambia"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Gonzalo Oroz, Dr.-Ing.
"Die neuen Stadtautobahnen in Santiago de Chile. Eine Studie über die Beziehung zwischen sozial-räumlicher Segregation und Verkehrsinfrastruktur"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Piyadech Arkarapotiwong, Dr. phil. (UH)
"The Investigation of living heritage attributes in living heritage sites"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Hans-Rudolf Meier
Fernando Andres Campos Medina, Dr. phil.
"The Role of Individuals in Socio-Urban Exclusion. A case study on the School Institution in Santiago de Chile"
Mentor:Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Alan Paul Rodriguez Schaeffer, Dr.-Ing. (UH)
"Lighting in urban heritage: case study of Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Hans-Rudolf Meier
Aaed Saleh Almasri, Dr. phil. (UH)
"Cultural Heritage Conservation in Conflict zones - Holy land as a case study"
Mentor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Nentwig
Fei Che, Dr.-Ing.
"The socio-spatial Transition of Beijing in between communal space and associative space"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil Max Welch Guerra and Dr. phil. habil. Dieter Hassenpflug
2014
Naira Chilingaryan, Dr. phil. (UH)
" Industrial Heritage: In-Between Memory and Transformation. Exploratory Research into Transformation Processes of Former Industrial Complexes of Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (Leipzig) and Mattatoio di Testaccio (Rome); New Meanings of Industrial Heriage."
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Jerzy Elzanowski, Dr. phil. (UH)
"Ruin Conversions: Violence, Architecture and Commemoration in post - 1944 Warsaw"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Hans-Rudolf Meier
Ossama Elsayed Hossam Ibrahim Elsayed Hegazy, Dr. phil.
"Towards a 'German Mosque': Rethinking the Mosque's Meaning in Germany via Applying Socio-Semiotics"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
2013
Liza Wing Man Kam, Dr. phil. (UH)
"Reconfiguration of 'the Stars and the Queen' - A quest for the interrelationship between architecture and civic awareness in post-colonial Hong Kong"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Sandra Iseman, Dr. Ing.
"Adapting Urban Planning to Climate Change, Preparing Cities for Mitigation and Adaptation"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Claudia Elizabeth Tomadoni, Dr. phil.
"Desarrollo urbano posfordista en un territorio possocialista. Una ciudad-región en una región de ciudades: Weimar"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil Max Welch Guerra
Paula Marie Hildebrandt, Dr. phil.
"Kunst der Partizipation. Zur künstlerischen Intervention im Stadtraum aus demokratietheoretischer Perspektive"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Agnieszka Ciesla, Dr. -Ing.
" Shrinking city in Eastern Germany. The term in the context of urban development in Poland."
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Max Welch Guerra
2012
Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Dr. phil. (UH)
"Reading Architecture / Remembering / Forgetting Interplay: Development of a Framework to Study Urban and Object Level Cases"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Jiang Long, Dr.-Ing.
"The Spatial Formation and Transformation of Chinese Rural Clan Settlement"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Dieter Hassenpflug
Ade-Kunle Ifesanya, Dr.-Ing.
"The Role of Government Agencies in Urban Housing Delivery; Insufficient Political Will and Ineffective Housing Administration in Lagos"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Larissa Coles, Dr.-Ing.
"Projektentwickler als Stadtgestalter. Typologisierung von Wertschöpfungsstrategien im Spannungsfeld von Stadtproduktion, Bauqualität und wirtschaftlichem Interesse"
Mentor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Nentwig
2011
Andrea Contursi, Dr.-Ing.
"Der 'Kollektivplan' und der Wiederaufbau Berlins, 1945-1950: Neugestaltung und Neugliederung einer möglichen 'Stadt von morgen' zwischen funktionalistischer Stadtplanung, Bauhaustradition und dem angestrebten Ziel einer sozialistischen Neuorganisation des Lebens."
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Max Welch Guerra
Ute Knippenberger, Dr.-Ing.
"Regionale Governance des Funktionswandels von Flughäfen. Eine Analyse am Beispiel der 'Airport City' Frankfurt am Main"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Max Welch Guerra
2010
Adriana Gondran Carvalho da Silva, Dr.-Ing.
"Make-Up Urbanism: The gap between promise and performance of Florianopolis (Brazil)"
Mentor: Dr. phil. habil. Dieter Hassenpflug
Juan Du, Dr.-Ing.
"The Shaping of People's Space - an inquiry of Human Environmental Experiences and Planning Practice, China"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Michael Rostalski, Dr.-Ing.
"Informelle Nutzung urbaner Räume und partizipative Stadtentwicklung - Das RAW-Gelände in Berlin"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
Thomas Koch, Dr.-Ing.
"Vom Shop zum Place - Eine Untersuchung des Ortsbezuges bei Mixed-Use-Developments am Beispiel des Bosch-Areals Stuttgart"
Mentor: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Christ
2009
Anne Kirstin Jordan, Dr. phil.
"Ein neues Stück Paris, Planungsdiskurse, Referenzen und die Formierung eines urbanen Images im städtebaulichen Großprojekt Paris Rive Gauche"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Max Welch Guerra
Sabine Knierbein, Dr. phil.
"Die Produktion zentraler öffentlicher Räume in der Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie, Ästhetische, ökonomische und mediale Restrukturierungen durch gestaltwirksame Koalitionen in Berln seit 1980"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Max Welch Guerra
Christoph Ullmann, Dr.-Ing.
"Integrated development in Post Apartheid South Africa: A socio-political perspective of the 'IDP' in regard to spatial planning in Nyanga and Philippi Township, Cape Town"
Mentor: Dr. phil. habil. Dieter Hassenpflug
Fang Chen, Dr.-Ing.
"The Chinese Shopping Centre: Integration of a Western Commercial Format into Chinese Urban Space"
Mentor: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Christ
Khurshid Zabin Hossain Taufique, Dr.-Ing.
"Interfacing of urban planning, urban economics and ecology: a new pradigm for substainable urban development of mega-city-Dhaka, Bangladesh"
Mentor: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Frank Eckardt
2007
Brigitta Ziegenbein, Dr.-Ing.
"Universität als Stadtbaustein - Potenziale einer wissensbasierten Stadtentwicklung in den neuen Bundesländern"
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Nentwig
Liu Chong, Dr.-Ing.
"The Contemporary Development of Quingdao's Urban Space - The Perspective of Civil Society's Participation in Chinese Urban Planning"
Mentor: Dr. phil. habil. Dieter Hassenpflug
2006
Ma Hang, Dr.-Ing.
"Villages in Shenzhen Persistence and Transformation of on Old Social System in an Emerging Mega City"
Mentor: Dr. phil. habil. Dieter Hassenpflug