PhD Class
All PhD projects at the Professorship of Urban Design are part of the PhD Class. The PhD Class provides opportunity for PhD students to present and discuss their PhD project and anything PhD-related. More information about the PhD Class and contact details in case you're interested in doing a PhD at the Professorship can be found here.
Current PhD projects
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Great Reset - Innovations in Urban Planning, Crisis as Catalyst?
Elena Schirnding de Almeida, since 2020 -
Reframing Mobility – Transition Design for the new everyday
Marco Kellhammer, since 2020 -
IN BETWEEN. Exploring hybrid planning for redeveloping informal settlements in the Mumbai metropolis
Ayesha Müller-Wolfertshofer, since 2020 -
New Pathways: A Study of European Railway Stations from the Perspective of Sustainable Development
Alice Lunardon, since 2020 -
Democratization of urban public space – A case study of Turkey‘s „Nation Gardens“
Deniz Köse, since 2021 -
Empowerment as a strategy for transdisciplinary urban development in Munich neighborhoods
Mareike Schmidt, since 2022 -
Evolutionary geometry in urban landscapes - adaptation, synergies and optimization
Adrian Heinisch, since 2023 -
Climate-positive urban neighbourhoods - analysis and optimization of planning and approval procedures, considering climate-relevant, energy-related, participative and social challenges
Vanessa Dörges, since 2023
Finished PhD projects
- „Die Eigenen Vier Wände. Schöner Wohnen im Wirtschaftswunder (1960-1974)"
Jan Engelke, 2019-2023