This dissertation explores the ‘Urban Stratum’, a global layer of urban influence that is obstructing the earth’s natural cycles. Going out from urgency to deal with the wicked global environmental problems of our era, this thesis develops strategies for transforming complex urban systems in the condition of planetary urbanisation, based on the potential leverages of shock and necessity. I therefore construct an interplay of four theoretical concept lines: Planetary Urbanisation, Complexity, Transformation and Necessity; and use practical evidence to support my arguments. A central part of the methodology consists of Transdisciplinary Expert Workshops, of which some were conceptualised as ‘active-peer-review’ and others as ‘creative LAB’. T...
Alternative power initiatives are socio-ecological innovations that substantially contribute to city...
In the past years, cities have become more and more interested in shifting from the traditional ideo...
The city is today object of scientific interest around the concept of environmental com...
Humanity is urbanizing rapidly. By now every second world citizen lives in cities. Scenarios suggest...
On a global scale, the paradigm of Sustainability has been increasingly determining urban developmen...
Das wachsende Interesse an neuen Urbanisierungsmustern, die den herkömmlichen Konzeptionen von Stadt...
How do urban structures change in the post-pandemic city? And what does a global pandemic mean for t...
Cities across the world are changing rapidly. Driven by population growth, migration, economic decli...
Urbanisation is expected at keeping galloping (United Nations, 2019), yet our complex and finite wor...
If we now live with a planetary urban process (Brenner & Schmid, 2015a), the very idea of “future ci...
Urbanization plays a key role in the human activities causing and feeding climate change. At present...
In dieser Dissertation werden vier Studien durchgeführt, um die acht Arten von Räumen in Mensch-Natu...
Urban sprawl is one of the most challenging land-use and land-cover changes in Germany implicating n...
Strukturelle Veränderungen auf Mikro- und Makroebene sind die Auslöser fortwährender urbaner Anpassu...
The momentum of urbanization and its impacts are so massive that we must face up to this trend. In v...
Alternative power initiatives are socio-ecological innovations that substantially contribute to city...
In the past years, cities have become more and more interested in shifting from the traditional ideo...
The city is today object of scientific interest around the concept of environmental com...
Humanity is urbanizing rapidly. By now every second world citizen lives in cities. Scenarios suggest...
On a global scale, the paradigm of Sustainability has been increasingly determining urban developmen...
Das wachsende Interesse an neuen Urbanisierungsmustern, die den herkömmlichen Konzeptionen von Stadt...
How do urban structures change in the post-pandemic city? And what does a global pandemic mean for t...
Cities across the world are changing rapidly. Driven by population growth, migration, economic decli...
Urbanisation is expected at keeping galloping (United Nations, 2019), yet our complex and finite wor...
If we now live with a planetary urban process (Brenner & Schmid, 2015a), the very idea of “future ci...
Urbanization plays a key role in the human activities causing and feeding climate change. At present...
In dieser Dissertation werden vier Studien durchgeführt, um die acht Arten von Räumen in Mensch-Natu...
Urban sprawl is one of the most challenging land-use and land-cover changes in Germany implicating n...
Strukturelle Veränderungen auf Mikro- und Makroebene sind die Auslöser fortwährender urbaner Anpassu...
The momentum of urbanization and its impacts are so massive that we must face up to this trend. In v...
Alternative power initiatives are socio-ecological innovations that substantially contribute to city...
In the past years, cities have become more and more interested in shifting from the traditional ideo...
The city is today object of scientific interest around the concept of environmental com...