Georg-Simmel Center for Urban Studies

Press and Public Relations


Video

 

Here, researchers of the Georg-Simmel-Center present their current projects.
The channel can be found here.

 

03/2022 - "Digitale infrastrukturelle Verwaltungspolitiken"

Julia Valeska Schröder

 

02/2022 - "Vom Stadtumbauschwerpunkt zum Einwanderungsquartier"

Nihad El Kayed

 

01/2022 -  "Urban Vibrations"

Ignacio Farías

 

12/2021 - "Reshaping property relations through the law"

Joanna Kusiak

 

12/2021 -  "Open Heritage Projekt"

Markus Kip, Heike Overmann

 

11/2021 - "Die Welt in meiner Straße"

Robert Vief, Henrik Schultze, Daniela Krüger

 

11/2021 - "Sicherheitsempfinden am Kottbusser Tor"

Talja Blokland

 


Podcast

"Urban Political" - a podcast from Ross Beveridge and Markus Kip

The podcast delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world.

All episodes and further information can be found here.

 

03/2022 - "Ukranian Cities at War"

Michael Gentile, Tatiana Zhurzhenko & Vlad Mykhnenko

 

01/2022 - "Troubling Graffiti and Street Art"

 Emma Arnold, Jeff Ross & John Lennon

 

10/2021 - "Housing Expropriation Referendum in Berlin: How it was won and

what comes next?"

Andrej Holm & Joanna Kusiak

 

07/2021 - "Urban Political Special: RC21 Conference Antwerp"

Elisabet Van Wymeersch, Stijn Oosterlynck, Claudia Seldin, Roger Keil, Luce Beeckmans & Manuel B. Aalbers

 

07/2021 - "Housing Commons & Collectives: European & US perspectives"

Matt Thompson, Amanda Huron, Mara Ferreri & David Madden

 

06/2021 - "Decolonize/Decenter: Planning in the South"

Ihnji Jon, Smruti Jukur, Prince K Guma & Mark Davidson

 

06/2021 - "Green Cities and Contemporary Climate Planning: Politics and Practices"

Mais Jafari, Hillary Angelo & Isabelle Anguelovski

 

05/2021 - "Housing Struggles in Berlin: Part 2 Grassroots Expropriation Activism"

Joanna Kusiak

 

04/2021 - "Housing Struggles in Berlin: Part 1 Rent Cap"

Andrej Holm

 

03/2021 - "The urban politics of density in and beyond the pandemic"

Hung-Ying Chen, Roger Keil, Lucía Cerrada Morato & Margot Rubin

 

03/2021 - "The Urban Hinterlands of Slavery"

Alan Rice, Geraldine Onek & Maimuna Sallah

 


Newspaper Articles

 

Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland

 

03/2021 - "Einige gegen alle anderen"

Ein Kommentar zum Szenario „Die totale Isolation“ in Internationale Politik.

 

11/2020 - "Die Stadt braucht dringend wieder mehr Zeitverschwendungen"

Ein Kommentar in der Rubrik "75 Visionen für Berlin" im Tagesspiegel.

 

10/2020 - "Soziologin: Kneipen sind wichtige Orte in Städten"

Prof. Blokland über die Bedeutung von Kneipen in der FAZ.

 

08/2020 - "Die Straße braucht uns!"

Ein Essay im Tagesspiegel.

 

05/2020 - "Der Tourismus hat Berlin gutgetan"

Ein Interview in der taz.


Blog

 

Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland

 

12/2020 - "Leaving the house to talk in private. How COVID19 restrictions affected how and where we find someone to talk to." - SFB 1265 Blog

 

12/2020 - "More than jobs and making money" - SFB 1265 Blog

A blog about the meaning of shops for our social life.

 

06/2020 - "Just because we have to do it, it doesn't mean it is right"

- SFB 1265 Blog

A blog about #stayathome und social isolation.

 

05/2020 - "Why we should stop acting as teachers at home." - Friedrichs Bildungsblog

A blog for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

 

Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

 

05/2020 - "Stadt, Land, Dorf: Vom Städtischen und Ländlichen Leben" -

Thema Voralberg

Ein Blog über die Gegenüberstellung von Stadt und Land.

12/2019 - "In Conversation: 'Nothing About Us Without Us'"-

Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V.

Ein Gespräch zwischen Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht und Prof. Dr. Jenniger Hyndman