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Dissertation
Identity Formation, Economic Development, and Local Activism: A Postcolonial Approach of Heritage Preservation in Taipei City, Taiwan
(2021)
This study adopts a postcolonial approach to scrutinise the policies and practices of heritage preservation in Taipei City, Taiwan. Postcolonial theory provides an analytical framework that destabilises the dominating discourses of urban development from a subaltern perspective. It interrogates how ordinary people have the capacity to appropriate urban spaces through the practices of everyday life, thereby claiming their rights to the living environment. In this sense, I argue that urban heritage is a social construction. ...
Buch
Thüringen-Reader: Daseinsvorsorge
(2023-09)
Was bedeutet es, Klimaanpassung bzw. Nachhaltigkeit „auf den Boden“ einer thüringischen Kleinstadtgemeinde, die Stadt und Land zugleich ist, zu bekommen? Die Stadt ist Schmölln. Der hier vorliegende erste Band der ISDN-Reihe stellt erste, zum Teil vorläufige Antworten aus dem Forschungsprojekt ISDN - Integrierte Strategie für Daseinsvorsorge und Nachhaltigkeit (gefördert vom BMBF) vor. Zugleich profitiert er von der Verbindung von Forschung und Lehre und stellt studentisch entstanden Impulse vor. Zugleich leistet der ...
Dissertation
City Development Regimes in-the-Making. Phronetic Analysis of Governance, Networks and Power in Cairo, 2011-2022
(2024)
Since the revolutionary uprising of January 2011, Cairo’s inner-city neighbourhoods have undergone rapid spatial transformations. Over the last decade, numerous old housing buildings have been replaced by modern ones, leading to the displacement of residents to the desert cities or newly-constructed neighbourhoods outside the city centre. The most remarkable transformations occurred since early 2018. Notably, these changes have been characterised by a fast implementation rate and a lack of community resistance to ...