On this page you will find information on some selected publications from comet scientists:interior.
Released in September 2023, LOCATION, Volume 47, Issue 3
LOCATION-special issue on "the future of cities"
Corona, Ukraine war, energy crisis, Inflation: The Polykrise has a longer-term structural changes such as the decline of Department stores and the growth of Online Commerce accelerated and the challenges for cities further strengthened. New concepts and measures are rooms for centers of all sizes, in Metropolitan and rural regions, discussed and tested. They generally aim to increase the stay and the quality of the experience, as well as the urban diversity of Use.However, as a future-oriented and crisis-proof inner city design? What works how and under what conditions? Since the spring of 2020 as a "DVAG-workshop of the future: city, property & trade center development in the field of structural change and Corona" events taking place in the working groups, retail, real estate, urban development, and economic development to regularly go to these issues. What is, therefore, closer, as the current contributions from professional practice and applied research on the future of the inner cities to join in a LOCATION issue? The response to this idea was overwhelming, which is documented in the eight - and five practical contributions with 28 authors in the new special issue on "the future of the inner cities," both quantitatively and qualitatively impressive. The just in time for the German Congress of geography in Frankfurt am Main, published in Bulletin of Prof. Matthias Kiese and practice partner, Heiner Pod of the Hamburg chamber of Commerce coordinates.
Published 2023 in Springer Verlag
The Productive city – (Re-) Integration of Urban production
Stefan Gärtner, Kerstin Meyer (EDS.)
This collection presents the Urban production, as an essential part of the Productive city. He provides an Overview of the idea of stories, current debates, concepts, definitions, measurability, relevance, and potential of manufacturing processes in the urban space. Necessary conditions and their effects on the preservation and promotion of Urban production are considered.
Including contributions from comet scientists:interior Stefan Gärtner, Kerstin Meyer, Marvin Guth are written there.
For more information, see HERE on the publisher's website.
Published 2023 in Franz Steiner Verlag
The Making of the 20th Century the City: Towards a Transnational Urban History of Japan and Europe.
Rainer Liedtke (ed.), Takahito Mori (ed.), Katja Schmidtpott (ed.):
Abstract from the publisher: Broadening the global perspective is high on the agenda for the current study of urban history. It is widely accepted in contemporary Japanese urban history that the prototype of the modern city was formed in the decades between the 1900s and the 1930s, when, against the background of accelerating urbanization, the ideas of modernity in terms of regularity, functionality and rationality contributed to the establishment of mass culture and ultimately to social mobilization for 'total war'. These views coincide with those of European urban history. In order to understand this coincidence, the volume is divided into three parts: 1. Surveys of mutual historiographical perceptions, 2. Case studies of urban architecture, the garden city concept, concepts of urban disaster prevention, infrastructure building and organised urban leisure, 3. Observations from the perspective of European urban history. The combination will not only elucidate the process of making the 20th-century Japanese city, but also help the reader to rethink the modern European city in a global context.
Source of the text, and for more information, see HERE.
Published 2022, transcript Verlag
Metropolitan Research Methods and Approaches
Jens Martin Gurr, Rolf Parr, Dennis Hardt (eds.)
The comet scientist Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr and Prof. Dr. Rolf Parr have published together with the former comet-office staff Dennis Hardt (geographer) this English language method book in 2022. Numerous comet-scientists and scientists written therein contributions.
Abstract: Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies, spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology studies, transportation planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this scope of disciplinary – and increasingly so interdisciplinary approaches that allows metropolitan research to address recent societal challenges of urban life, such as mobility, health, diversity or sustainability.
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6310-5
More Details about the book HERE
Published 2022
Regional Biodiversity Strategy, The Ruhr Area
The comet scientist Prof. Dr. Daniel herring (faculty of biology, UDE), Prof. Dr. Harald Zepp and Prof., Dr. Thomas Schmitt (both: Institute of Geography, to RUB) are involved in the development of the "Regional biodiversity strategy, the Ruhr area".
The project is funded since the mid-2020 in the framework of Ruhr-conference as part of the project of the "Offensive" Green infrastructure "2030" of the state government. The development of the strategy is carried out by a consortium of the Ruhr-University of Bochum (RUB), University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and the Biological Station of the Western Ruhr region (BSWR) under the leadership of the RVR. From different angles, the network of Urban biodiversity highlights the biodiversity in the Ruhr area and derives proposals for their preservation and to promote it.
The position papers treat of nine topics: species and Habitat conservation, industry, nature, Urban agriculture, Urban use of the forest, open spaces, and the biotope network, climate change mitigation and adaptation, city of green and social cohesion, Urban Green and health care, as well as environmental education. As the final project output, an action plan should be drawn up, which is concretized in the investment process in the Region to "strategy Green infrastructure" and of the Assembly of the RVR decided.
The 200-page publication "of the items to a Regional biodiversity strategy, the Ruhr area", you will find HERE.
Published In 2021, the European Commission,
Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions
with the participation of Dr. Julita Skodra
The Handbook of the European Commission, "Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions" was published at the beginning of may, to help decision - makers:inside and practitioners:the interior in the development of scientifically valid Monitoring and evaluation plans for the evaluation of nature-based solutions (NbS). 17 of the EU-funded NbS projects and cooperating institutions have contributed to the development of the manual.
Dr.-Ing. Julita Skodra, Institute of Urban Public Health (InUPH), a member of the comet-Field to the city of health, has contributed to several sections of the manual and was a coordinating lead author of Chapter 2 (principles of the NbS performance and impact assessment). She has contributed to the interdisciplinary discussions with the theoretical foundations of the city health and sustainable development, as well as the practical experiences with the evaluation of NbS from the EU-funded SMART Cities project.
The Handbook presents a series of robust indicators and methods to assess the impact of nature-based solutions in 12 societal challenge areas.
HIER there is more information about this release (Appendix and Methods).
Published in 2021 in the transcript Verlag
A tale of one City
Dieter Haller
Prof. Dr. Dieter Haller (RUB) enters into a metropolis project with the monograph “Tangier/Gibraltar – A tale of one City” – To Ethnography (Transcript, Bielefeld, 2021). The project under the relationships sought political, demographic, economic and cultural type between the two cities. The cultural and historical part is based mainly on the Material of the earlier years of field research in the Region (Gibraltar 1995/96; Tangier 2013-present), as well as archival work; the ethnological part is devoted to the Brexit and its impact on the relations between the two cities, as well as between Morocco and the EU (field research, 2019-20). With the research on the partly very old Connections the term requested treats of identity, ethnicity and culture behind and re-focus.
Information about this book, you will find HERE.
Published in 2021 by Routledge
Governance and City Regions
karsten Zimmermann, Patricia holiday
In this English-language new release of the recent reforms and changes in the management of urban regions are analyzed in France, Germany, and Italy. It covers topics such as the impact of austerity measures, territorial development, design and upgrading of the state.
Abstract (from this book and from the publisher's website copies): "City-regions are areas where the daily journeys for work, shopping and leisure, frequently cross administrative boundaries. They are seen as engines of the national economy, but are also facing congestion and disparities. Thus, all over the world, governments attempt to increase problem-solving capacities in city-regions by institutional reform and a shift of functions.
This book analyzes the recent reforms and changes in the governance of city-regions in France, Germany and Italy. It covers themes such as the impact of austerity measures, territorial development, planning and state modernization. The authors provide a systematic cross-country perspective on two levels, between six city-regions and between the national policy frameworks in these three countries. They use a solid comparative framework, which refers to the four dimensions functions of institutions and governance, ideas, and space. They describe the course of the reforms, the motivational and the results, and consequently, they question the widespread metropolitan fever or resurgence of city-regions and provide a better understanding of recent changes in city-regional governance in Europe. The primary readership will be researchers and master students in planning, urban studies, urban geography, political science, and governance studies, especially those interested in metropolitan regions and / or decentralization. Due to the uniqueness of the work, the book will be of particular interest to scholars working on the comparative European dimension of territorial governance and planning.“
The information you find on the Publisher page.
The book is 2021 in the Routledge publishing as an E-Book under the open access link published.
Published in 2021
Way to the beautiful city actors, experience, action, strategy, way to the beautiful city of
Uwe Altrock, Sandra Huning (EDS.)
"How do you build a beautiful city? Volume 25 of the Planning and all of the different ideas and interpretations at the town of users, planners, investors and architects, as well as in historic preservation and urban redevelopment. The book chapters, and Interviews with professionals from different professions, to show how different ideas of the "beauty" of the city again and again, the potential for conflict meet, and draw with the help of many examples of a colorful image of creative placement and design strategies that are guided by artistic, cultural and social principles, as well as resources, yield, and profit orientation, as well as technical requirements. The limits and possibilities in the mediation of beauty recognizable and specific conditions of the present-day city of production are critically reviewed. At the same time, contributions to an openness to diverse perspectives to advertise.“ (quoted from: LINK)
IISBN-10 : 3937735178
ISBN-13 : 978-3937735177
For more information about this collection, see HERE.
Published 2020 by Routledge
Charting Literary Urban Studies Text as models of and for the City
Jens Martin Gurr
We are looking forward to the publication of the book "Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City" by Prof. Jens Martin Gurr (comet-speaker), New York, Routledge publishing:the
Abstract: Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how text in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprint for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts represent urban complexities and how can they capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research? Are the blueprints or 'recipes' for urban development that most quickly travel around the globe – such as the 'creative city', the 'green city' or the 'smart city' really always the ones that best solve a given problem? Or is the global spread of such travelling urban models not least, a matter of their narrative packaging? In answering these key questions, this book therefore advances a literary studies contribution to the general theory of models, tracing a heuristic trajectory from the analysis of literary texts as representations of urban developments to an analysis of literary strategies in the planning documents and other pragmatic, non-literary text.
Publication Information: Jens Martin Gurr. Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City. New York: Routledge, 2020.
ISBN 9780367628345
Link to the publisher's page
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111009
Published in 2020 in the Spriner-Verlag
Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance
John Harrison, Karsten Zimmermann, Daniel Galland (EDS.)
Comet scientist Prof. Dr. Karsten Zimmermann (TU Do) is one of the editors of the new English-language anthology "Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance".
“The aim of this book is to investigate contemporary processes of metropolitan change and approaches to planning and governing metropolitan regions. To do so, it focuses on four central tenets of metropolitan change in terms of planning and governance: institutional approaches, policy mobilities, spatial imaginaries, and planning styles. The book's main contribution lies in providing readers with a new conceptual and analytical framework for researching contemporary dynamics in metropolitan regions. It will chiefly benefit researchers and students in planning, urban studies, policy and governance studies, especially those interested in metropolitan regions.”
Published in June 2019, LOCATION, Volume 43, Issue 2
LOCATION-special issue on knowledge-Metropole Ruhr
Scientists:the inside of the Field metropolises of Knowledge in the field of competence of urban research of the University Alliance Ruhr have jointly produced a special issue of the "LOCATION – journal of Applied geography". In an Editorial, an Interview, and six scientific contributions the author:inside the different aspects of the knowledge Metropole Ruhr devote themselves to. As a Knowledge city is understood to be an urban Agglomeration, whose social and economic development of the ability to generate and application. Use, as well as to the recording and dissemination of Knowledge depends on. This issue was Comet Scientist Prof. Dr. Matthias Kiese coordinates.