Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

Profil

• Claiming the public space: Urban interventions and the shift from vertical to horizontal urban planning

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  Förderer: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Zeitraum: 01/2016 - 12/2018 Projektleitung: Brigitta Eszter Gantner, Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Demographic Change and Housing Wealth

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  Zeitraum: 04/2009 - 11/2010 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Die Zukunft der europäischen Stadt - Formen und Folgen von New Urban Governance

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  Zeitraum: 01/2007 - 12/2009 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Gemeinschaftliche Entwicklung eines Tourismuskonzepts für Berlin mit dwif in vier Phasen

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  Zeitraum: 03/2017 - 03/2018 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden Dr. Mohammad Ali Askar

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  Förderer: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung: Forschungskostenzuschuss Zeitraum: 02/2021 - 01/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Internationale Künstler und ihre Rolle in der Stadtentwicklung

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  Zeitraum: 01/2012 - 12/2012 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• lokal.leben - Netzwerk für Standortlösungen

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  Förderer: Wirtschaftsunternehmen / gewerbliche Wirtschaft Zeitraum: 05/2012 - 06/2013 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Overtourism in Berlin Kreuzberg? Wissenschaftliche Begleitforschung zum Projekt "lokal.leben. Netzwerk für Standortlösungen"

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  Förderer: Wirtschaftsunternehmen / gewerbliche Wirtschaft Zeitraum: 03/2014 - 04/2014 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Pauschale Humboldt-Stipendium Prof. Dr. Boris Grésillon

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  Förderer: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Zeitraum: 09/2016 - 02/2019 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Performative Planung

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  Zeitraum: 01/2012 - 12/2013 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• SFB 1265/1: Geographische Imaginationen: Sicherheit und Unsicherheit im Generationenvergleich (TP A01)

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  Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2018 - 12/2021 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• SFB 1265/2: Geographische Imaginationen II: Ontologische (Un)Sicherheiten in ländlichen Räumen. (TP A01)

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  Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2022 - 12/2025 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Superdiversität und alternde Städte? Die Konvergenz von wachsender Multiethnizität und einer alternden Bevölkerung

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 02/2017 - 02/2021 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Haase, Prof. Dr. Tobia Lakes

• Superdiversität und alternde Städte? Die Konvergenz von wachsender Multiethnizität und einer alternden Bevölkerung.

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 03/2017 - 02/2020 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Tobia Lakes, Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Haase

• Superdiversität und alternde Städte? Die Konvergenz von wachsender Multiethnizität und einer alternden Bevölkerung.

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 03/2017 - 02/2020 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Haase, Prof. Dr. Tobia Lakes, Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Thomas Mann Fellowship der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Thomas Mann Haus Los Angeles für Frau Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

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  Zeitraum: 09/2019 - 02/2020 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Transformationen im Wohnen und Generationenverträge in Europa (THICE)

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  Förderer: Volkswagen Stiftung Zeitraum: 09/2024 - 08/2028 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Urbane Orte des Kulturkontakts in der Weltgesellschaft - die Rolle interkultureller Performance, Kanada, Deutschland

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 11/2009 - 06/2013 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

• Science & Startups Berlin

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  19 Treffer59.8%
  • Zuwendung im Rahmen des Programms „exist – Existenzgründungen aus der Wissenschaft“ aus dem Bundeshaushalt, Einzelplan 09, Kapitel 02, Titel 68607, Haushaltsjahr 2026, sowie aus Mitteln des Europäischen Strukturfonds (hier Euro-päischer Sozialfonds Plus – ESF Plus) Förderperiode 2021-2027 – Kofinanzierung für das Vorhaben: „exist Women“
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    59.8%

• Local Governments for Sustainability

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  95 Treffer59.4%
  • „BiodivERsA-Verbundvorhaben: Grün-Blaue Infrastruktur für lokale Lösungen in komplexen sozioökologischen Systemen (ENABLE), Teilvorhaben: Fallstudienkontext und Co-design Workshops zur Identifizierung lokaler Policy- Lösungsansätze.“
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    59.4%
  • Integrated Urban Food Policies – Developing Sustainability Co-Benefits, Spatial Linkages, Social Inclusion and Sectoral Connections To Transform Food Systems in City-Regions (FoodCLIC)
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    58.5%

• Shenzen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden

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  53 Treffer59.1%
  • EU: CLEARING HOUSE – Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-Sharing and Governance on How Urban Forest-Based Solutions Support Sino-European Urban Futures
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    59.1%

• Centro de Investigacion Ecologica Y Aplicaciones Forestales Consorcio

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  52 Treffer59.1%
  • EU: CLEARING HOUSE – Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-Sharing and Governance on How Urban Forest-Based Solutions Support Sino-European Urban Futures
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    59.1%

• Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature et de ses Ressources

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  52 Treffer59.1%
  • EU: CLEARING HOUSE – Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-Sharing and Governance on How Urban Forest-Based Solutions Support Sino-European Urban Futures
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    59.1%

• Ernährungsrat Budapest BUDAPEST FOVAROS ONKORMANYZATA

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  68 Treffer58.5%
  • Integrated Urban Food Policies – Developing Sustainability Co-Benefits, Spatial Linkages, Social Inclusion and Sectoral Connections To Transform Food Systems in City-Regions (FoodCLIC)
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    58.5%

• Empresa Municipal de Ambiente de Cascais EM SA

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  69 Treffer58.5%
  • Integrated Urban Food Policies – Developing Sustainability Co-Benefits, Spatial Linkages, Social Inclusion and Sectoral Connections To Transform Food Systems in City-Regions (FoodCLIC)
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    58.5%

• Area Metropolitana de Barcelona

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  61 Treffer58.5%
  • Integrated Urban Food Policies – Developing Sustainability Co-Benefits, Spatial Linkages, Social Inclusion and Sectoral Connections To Transform Food Systems in City-Regions (FoodCLIC)
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    58.5%

• ICLEI Europasekretariat GmbH

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  90 Treffer58.5%
  • Integrated Urban Food Policies – Developing Sustainability Co-Benefits, Spatial Linkages, Social Inclusion and Sectoral Connections To Transform Food Systems in City-Regions (FoodCLIC)
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    58.5%
  • Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green EconomySurge
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    55.3%
  • Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe (EU Research Program FP7-SSH-2011)
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    49.5%

• Aarhus Kommune

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  67 Treffer58.5%
  • Integrated Urban Food Policies – Developing Sustainability Co-Benefits, Spatial Linkages, Social Inclusion and Sectoral Connections To Transform Food Systems in City-Regions (FoodCLIC)
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    58.5%

• Time, Non-representational Theory and the "Performative Turn"—Towards a New Methodology in Qualitative Social Research

  2008

  Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin) · 75 Zitationen · DOI

  Because of their constitution, the usage of performative techniques in qualitative social research must deal with a paradox. Acting as performance takes place in the present and it takes place just once. One result of this is that every representation of a performance be it as text, discussion or film refers to the past. Performative social research solves this paradox by conceptualising performance as a kind of liminal phase of a ritual. Our thesis is that by simple outsourcing the problem of present in the theory of ritual, performative techniques commit the logical mistake of genetic fallacy, i.e., the mistake of forgetting that the primary value or meaning of an event has no necessary connections with its genesis in history. Therefore, a new methodology for qualitative social research after the performative turn requires a theoretical position which does not fall back to a position of causality as the temporal consequence of a cause and effect, as maintained by ritual theory. In this essay we suggest a "non-representational theory" for this venture, and point out how a methodology for qualitative research could be constituted "after" the performative turn. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802558

• Bare Geographies in Knowledge Societies – Creative Cities as Text and Piece of Art: Two Eyes, One Vision

  2004

  Built Environment · 69 Zitationen · DOI

  What roles do cities play in knowledge societies? Do places still matter? To what extent are knowledge production processes place-bound and city-specific? This paper examines some dimensions of the multiple relationships between physically experiencing and mentally constructing the city. Primarily, this is a conceptual exercise. Thus, I read part of the literature on cities and creativity through two different conceptual lenses: representational and non-representational theory. The first lens, which I will call the 'right eye', sees the world from the point of view of abstraction and representation. The second lens, which I refer to as the 'left eye', looks at the world from the perspective of the concrete, experience, and dwelling (i.e. non-representation). Both 'eyes' are helpful as theoretical perspectives to analyse the changing role of cities in the knowledge economy. Thus, I argue for a two-eyed, stereoscopic vision of cities in knowledge-based societies.

• Resident Perceptions of New Urban Tourism: A Neglected Geography of Prejudice

  2015

  Geography Compass · 63 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract Research on urban tourism has focused on the search for alternative, authentic, lively, and mundane urban neighbourhoods by visitors. This so‐called new urban tourism is characterised by the increasing quest by tourists for contact with mundane life in ordinary residential quarters. The intrusion of new urban tourism into day‐to‐day life also affects residents' perceptions of visitors, which are prone to become stereotypes and prejudices rather than just perceptions. The paper offers a review of the urban residents' perceptions research literature through the lens of the new urban tourism phenomenon, aligning it with wider geographies of prejudices. Consequently, the paper argues that an understanding of residents' attitudes towards the new urban tourism phenomenon offers a framework through which geographies of prejudices subtly at work in these resident/visitors encounters can be more deeply researched.

• The Creative Metropolis Services, Symbols and Spaces

  1998

  53 Zitationen

• The housing careers of younger adults and intergenerational support in Germany’s ‘society of renters’

  2018

  Housing Studies · 49 Zitationen · DOI

  Through narrative interviews with younger adults and their parents, this paper explores how the housing transitions of younger adults, both within the rental sector and into homeownership, are shaped through intergenerational intra-family support in Germany’s society of renters. Our findings highlight the profound qualitative differences between regular transfers for establishing and retaining residential independence in the rental sector and inter vivos gifts for house purchase. Where the former support type is given and taken unconditionally, transfers for house purchase follow a different logic and carry different meanings. Being a necessary condition for property acquisition at young age, they have the power to completely rebalance family relations and undermine younger adults’ autonomy accordingly. In an aggregate perspective, our study further suggests increasing socio-spatial inequalities within the younger generation which run along both class and spatial origin, sharply dividing the housing market opportunities of ‘original Berliners’ and those who have moved to the city from more affluent regions in Germany.

• Die Beobachtung der Situation: Zur Rolle von Affekten in Begegnungen zwischen Fremden

  2013

  Geographische Zeitschrift · 47 Zitationen · DOI

  The paper analyses the role of affections and affect in two encounters between strangers in Berlin. Affections are construed as states of being of the affected body, whereas affect is the transition between different states of being. Drawing on recent work on affects in social geography the paper conceptualises affect as a theoretical tool for the empirical analysis of bodies in encounters. Affect be understood as the main force behind the collectivisation of bodies in places is scrutinised by the visual method of video analysis. By filming strangers in interactions in a public bar and on a street festival the paper thinks through the entanglement of bodies with other bodies and with bodies and performative spaces. Affects have the ability to form specific relations between bodies and between objects and bodies. They affect bodies, which pass their states upon other bodies. With this said the capacity of being affected becomes a central aspect for any encounters with difference as for the social. The paper concludes with five aspects which appear crucial for further research on affection and affect in social geography.

• Seeing through African protest logics: a longitudinal review of continuity and change in protests in Ghana

  2018

  Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 43 Zitationen · DOI

  Protests in Africa have a long history. Yet, for many years, western misconceptions in protest studies have hindered our understanding of the particularities and commonalities of African protests. In this study, we scrutinize the historical continuity and discontinuity of protests in Africa, using Ghana as a case. We situate a longitudinal analysis of protests in Ghana within the theoretical model of protest logics, using the institutional-analytical method. The study finds historical continuity largely in terms of proletarian (high cost of living, dispossession and inadequate infrastructure), republican (participatory governance and corruption) and corporatist (working conditions and unemployment) mobilisation themes in Ghana. These themes are underpinned by the processes of class struggle, accumulation by (urban) dispossession, neoliberalism, splintered urbanism, gentrification and corruption. The implication of this study is that contemporary protests in Africa would be influenced by issues such as high cost of living, participatory governance, erratic power supply, unemployment, poor road infrastructure and corruption. These issues should be prioritized in the agenda of African governments in order to avert spontaneous protests.

• Gentrification and Displacement

  2017

  40 Zitationen · DOI

• Understanding diversity in later life through images of old age

  2020

  Ageing and Society · 37 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract This article aims to enhance the conceptual debate on diversity in old age by exploring the interplay of diversity in later life and images of old age. We argue that the analysis of images of old age on the micro-level is a fruitful methodology in order to unravel the meaning of diversity in later life. Drawing on findings from qualitative research in Berlin, we explore how new and diverse imaginations, experiences and lifestyles of old age emerge. The conceptual focus on images of old age enables us to investigate further what diversity in later life comprises and how it simultaneously fosters the genesis of new images of old age. The manifold new images we found in our research suggest that prevalent societal discourses about old age on the macro-level are rather deceptive and represent mostly stereotypes such as ‘active agers’ or ‘frail and dependent elders’. We offer three explanations why alternative images of old age are currently barely present in public discourse: (a) the actors transmitting images of age; (b) the institutionalisation of the images; and (c) the challenge to communicate complexity. We conclude by suggesting that images of old age are a promising starting point to explore and make visible both the diversity of social groups within the older generation as well as the heterogeneity of older individuals.

• Changing urban governance in Ghana: the role of resistance practices and activism in Kumasi

  2019

  Urban Geography · 33 Zitationen · DOI

  This article examines traders’ resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new variable into the present concept of urban governance as decentralization, entrepreneurialism and democratization (DED). From an empirical study in Kumasi, Ghana, findings reveal that activism by non-state actors does not only occur at the crucial earlier phases of the urban regeneration process, but extends into the subsequent phases, because urban governance is a continuous process. We demonstrate that activism and a multiplicity of resistance practices are embedded and significant dimensions of everyday urban governance in Africa. This paper argues that the additional dimension – activism – is necessary in rethinking urban governance in Ghana and Africa. This conceptualization views non-state actors not as resisters of urban governance but as activists whose resistance practices and innovations produce tangible and far-reaching changes in city governance. We learn that non-state actors do not rely on the state to control all aspects of urban governance but invent new practices to secure their socio-economic interests and provide them with leverage where they have to negotiate with or stand up to authorities. The study shows that successful change in urban governance is a function of the complementary and strategic adoption of contention, subversion and co-production. When the state perceives that the intervention of other key stakeholders legitimizes the grievances of non-state actors, it responds positively.

• Situational places: rethinking geographies of intercultural interaction in super‐diverse urban space

  2014

  Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography · 33 Zitationen · DOI

  Cities in general and public urban spaces in particular have re‐emerged as important places where strangers from different social and cultural backgrounds interact. The growing number of intercultural encounters assumed by contemporary urban studies calls for a theoretical examination of how these encounters are conducted. In this article we therefore critically examine the interplay between cultures, strangers, performances, encounters, and urban built environments. This means bringing together the theoretical ideas of super‐diversity, culture in world society, and situational places. The article argues that intercultural interactions between strangers in cities – and elsewhere – shape the cultural conditions of contemporary world society. First, super‐diversity is discussed as a cultural reality of world society. Drawing on empirical evidence from psychology, intercultural interactions between strangers are then demonstrated to be part of ritualized cultural negotiations. Finally, the notion of situational places is put forward as the conceptual nexus between these cultural encounters and the urban environment. This perspective allows the integration of bodily performances between strangers, spatial and situational context, and the resulting places of encounter.

• Need for shelter, demand for housing, desire for home: a psychoanalytic reading of home-making in Vancouver

  2020

  Housing Studies · 31 Zitationen · DOI

  Home is often dually conceptualized as a physical space of living and a psycho-social place of belonging. To engage with this dual nature of home, housing scholars refer to the concept of ontological security to understand how different forms of housing affect subjective well-being. This paper extends the scope of this research. Developing a framework inspired by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, we aim to understand what kind of psycho-spatial arrangements of home-making are involved in establishing ontological security. Based on empirical research in Vancouver, BC, Canada, we suggest three modalities involved in home-making: the need for shelter as the most basic psychic relation to survival, the demand for housing as a psycho-social arrangement with the Other, and the desire for home as a psycho-spatial constitution in the fantasy. Through this, the paper calls for a deeper understanding of how the subject is inscribed actively and dynamically into their social and built environment.

• Urban governance and its implications for the micro-geographies of market trading in Ghana: a case of the Kotokuraba Market Project in Cape Coast

  2019

  GeoJournal · 26 Zitationen · DOI

• Urban regeneration and politically-induced displacement in a secondary African city: A case of the Kotokuraba Market Project, Cape Coast, Ghana

  2020

  Geoforum · 25 Zitationen · DOI

• Gentrification and Resistance

  2017

  24 Zitationen · DOI

• Conceptualising marketplaces in Anglophone West Africa: a sexpartite framework

  2018

  GeoJournal · 22 Zitationen · DOI

• Stadt und Performanz

  2013

  J.B. Metzler eBooks · 22 Zitationen · DOI

  Die Stadt ist ein Untersuchungsgegenstand, der an Komplexität kaum zu überbieten ist (Wirth 1938). So verändert sich die Perspektive auf die Reichhaltigkeit des Objekts je nachdem, welche theoretische Grundhaltung man zu ihm einnimmt. Es rücken unterschiedliche Dimensionen, Fragestellungen und Phänomene von Stadtleben, städtischen Räumen, Urbanität oder Urbanisierung in den Mittelpunkt, je nachdem ob wir aus einer handlungstheoretischen, polit-ökonomischen, poststrukturalistischen oder systemtheoretischen Blickrichtung schauen. Während die eben genannten theoretischen Haltungen zur Stadt in der Literatur der damit befassten Dis ziplinen, von der Stadtsoziologie über die Stadtgeografie bis zur Ethnologie, gründlich diskutiert sind, trifft dies auf die performanztheoretische Perspektive bisher nicht zu (Ash/Graham 1997; Ash/Thrift 2002). Zu jung sind einerseits gerade im deutschsprachigen Raum die Debatten um das Verhältnis von Stadt und Performanz. Andererseits ist so etwas wie »die Performanztheorie« ebenso wenig am Horizont der Literatur auszumachen (Schechner 2006), wie es »den Forschungsgegenstand Stadt« gibt.

• New Urbanism: Life, Work, and Space in the New Downtown

  2012

  22 Zitationen

  Contents: New downtowns: a new form of centrality and urbanity in world society, Ilse Helbrecht and Peter Dirksmeier Planning urbanity - a contradiction in terms?, Loretta Lees Public spaces for the 21st century, Jan Gehl Waterfront redevelopment: global processes and local contingencies in Vancouver's False Creek, David Ley Planning for creativity: the transformation of the Amsterdam eastern docklands, Robert Kloosterman From the old downtown to the new downtown: the case of South Boston waterfront, Susanna Heeg Grasping, creating and commercialising trends, styles and 'zeitgeist': the role of urbanity with regard to working in flexible, specialised project networks as illustrated by the media industry, Ivo Mossig Major town planning projects in urban renaissance: structuring property sales for future urbanity?, Maike Dziomba Neighbourliness in the city centre: reality and potential in the case of the Hamburg HafenCity, Ingrid Breckner and Marcus Menzl Assessment of the effects of the built environment for the organisation of social processes, Thomas Perry Can urbanity be planned? Comments on the development of public spaces in the HafenCity of Hamburg, Claus-C. Wiegandt The virtue of diversity, Rolf Lindner Index.

• Intercultural interaction and "situational places": a perspective for urban cultural geography within and beyond the performative turn

  2010

  Social geography · 22 Zitationen · DOI

  With the performative turn in social sciences and the humanities the concept of performance has arrived in human geography. Performance denotes an understanding of social actions and practices as constitutive for non-representational realities. This paper looks at the relationship between places and performance especially in urban geography and develops the new term "situational place" to grasp the increasing phenomenon of (intercultural) encounters in the cities of modern world society. "Situational places" are situated performances of these (intercultural) interactions between strangers in cities of the contemporary world society. With the aid of performance theory the influence of the omnipresent interactions between strangers in cities on urban space is conceptualized. Therewith, we hope to present some fruitful theoretical and empirical possibilities for a cultural urban geography within and beyond the performative turn.

• Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices

  2015

  City · 21 Zitationen · DOI

  Geographies of urban encounter explore how people live with difference in contemporary, super-diverse cities. For a deeper understanding of the role of encounters for living with cultural and social differences, we conceptualise encounters as manifestations of Foucauldian micro-mechanisms of power conducted by affects. Affects, understood as complex, reflexive states of being, are direct responses to social or environmental stimuli. Our main point is that affects have a great impact on situational struggles for interactional dominance as expressions of power. On the empirical basis of video-recorded chance interactions in Berlin and focus groups we analyse the influence affects display in mutual negotiations of power as situational stratifications between interlocutors. As our main result we conclude that spaces of mundane transgression emerge out of the impact of affects, which can be observed in moments of situational stratification on account of the influence that affects can have on passers-by.

• Demographischer Wandel, Generationeneffekte und Wohnungsmarktentwicklung: Wohneigentum als Altersvorsorge?

  2012

  Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and Planning · 20 Zitationen · DOI

  This article examines recent shifts among German homeowners towards the use of their housing equity under the circumstance of demographic change. Whilst traditionally housing equity was considered a consumer good, recent developments in pension provision and demographics strengthen its position as a pension asset. Consequently, more and more young German households consider their dwelling to be a centrepiece of their financial provisions in preparation for future risks and for retirement. This is clearly a new perspective in a predominantly tenant society. Based on 36 in-depth interviews with members of households, the authors assert that homeowning behaviour and attitudes have evolved differently for different generations and point out distinguishable “housing generations”. The younger a household the more often housing equity features as an investment good, with the downside that with this development continuing inheritances may decline, often the only way young German households can afford buying a house.

• Seeing like a tourist city: how administrative constructions of conflictive urban tourism shape its future

  2017

  Journal of Tourism Futures · 19 Zitationen · DOI

  Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the administrative problematisations of conflict-prone urban tourism (e.g. noise) as political processes predetermining the future of city tourism. It is shaped by today’s administrative ways of knowing increasing visitor pressure as an issue for urban (tourism) development. Design/methodology/approach The problematisation of conflictive urban tourism in Berlin is used as case study and lens to analyse how administrative bodies see conflictive tourism like a tourist city. Drawing on Mariana Valverde’s idea of Seeing Like a City (2011), the paper demonstrates how disparate governmental bodies see and reduce the complexity of conflicts resulting from tourism in order to handle it. The authors use policy documents as the basis for the analysis. Findings The paper provides empirical insights about how political knowledge on urban tourism conflicts is produced in Berlin. The marginalisation of these conflicts on the federal state level seemingly aces out the calls for action on the borough level (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg). According to these disparate modes of problematisation, older and younger governmental gazes on conflictive tourism and its future relevance interrelate in contingent combination. Originality/value This paper fills a gap in the existing urban tourism literature, by focussing on the definition of policy problems by governmental bodies as powerfully linked to the availability of solutions.

• Security and Insecurity of Home Ownership: Germany and the Netherlands

  2007

  International Journal of Housing Policy · 19 Zitationen · DOI

  ABSTRACT This paper examines the experience of households in two adjacent countries, Germany and the Netherlands, both of which have relatively modest levels of home ownership but significantly different housing systems. Population growth is slowing down in Germany, while it is still increasing in the Netherlands. German house prices are stable while Dutch prices have been rising considerably for 25 years now. The central question is whether people in these two different contexts, which are both faced with globalization and social security reforms, have similar perceptions of the securities and insecurities of home ownership. The paper is based on institutional studies and 20 interviews among home owners and ten interviews among tenants in both countries. The central issues here are the perceptions of (in)security and equity. The paper concludes that in both countries home ownership is perceived as a nest-egg and a ‘pension in stone’. However, it is also associated with insecurity. In Germany many households saw house prices as a source of insecurity. This can be explained by strong fluctuations in house prices in Germany and the fear that the declining population might adversely affect the situation and hence the ‘pension in stone’. In the Netherlands a policy change—particularly a change in tax relief for mortgage-holders—was the main worry.

• Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana: an analysis of Chinese funding of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast

  2022

  Urban Geography · 17 Zitationen · DOI

  Conventional forms of entrepreneurial urban governance are characterized by strong municipal urban governments, who have the autonomy to use and decide over innovative financing instruments and public–private partnerships, and whose decisions are not overly influenced by the national political interests of central government authorities. This article examines the extent to which this conceptualization applies in an African context, particularly Ghana. Drawing on a case study of Chinese funding of market infrastructural redevelopment in Cape Coast, we demonstrate that the existing conceptualization is inadequate to understand the framework and dynamics of entrepreneurial urban governance in Ghana, where mayors are appointed by Presidents, can “only” secure large-scale funding with the support of the central government, and are obliged to protect the political interests of the President and the ruling political party. Consequently, we argue that a new concept – hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance – is crucial to denote the Ghanaian variant of entrepreneurial urban governance and to analyze the multi-scalar mechanisms and local politics of urban governance in post-colonial Ghana. We argue that hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance thrives on a strong relationship between local and national politics. This article recommends that there is the need to strengthen multi-scalar collaborations not only in securing large-scale funding for capital infrastructure but also through to the subsequent stages of pricing and repayment.

• Demographic Change and Retirement Planning: Comparing Households’ Views on the Role of Housing Equity in Germany and the UK

  2012

  International Journal of Housing Policy · 17 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract As states across Europe come under pressure to meet the needs of ageing populations, there has been increasing interest in the potential role of housing equity in funding welfare provision. This paper draws on the findings of a European study, Demographic Change and Housing Wealth (DEMHOW), which set out to explore whether housing plays a role in retirement planning. This paper compares the views of homeowners in Germany and the UK. The former is a country where homeownership is the minority tenure and the preserve of affluent households, and where house prices have been stagnant for years. The latter is a country of homeownership where half the poor are home owners, and where real house price increases over many decades have served to establish the belief that homeownership is one of the best investments accessible to ordinary people. In addition, ‘equity release’ is more common, and related products better developed, in the UK than in Germany. Given these differences, it might be assumed UK homeowners would be more willing to consider utilising housing equity to supplement their income in retirement than their German counterparts. This paper sets out to explore whether this is the case.

• Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

  SFB 1265/2: Geographische Imaginationen II: Ontologische (Un)Sicherheiten in ländlichen Räumen. (TP A01)

  other

• Freie Universität Berlin

  SFB 1265/2: Geographische Imaginationen II: Ontologische (Un)Sicherheiten in ländlichen Räumen. (TP A01)

  university

• Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung

  SFB 1265/2: Geographische Imaginationen II: Ontologische (Un)Sicherheiten in ländlichen Räumen. (TP A01)

  other

• Technische Universität Berlin

  SFB 1265/2: Geographische Imaginationen II: Ontologische (Un)Sicherheiten in ländlichen Räumen. (TP A01)

  university

• Universidad de Granada

  Transformationen im Wohnen und Generationenverträge in Europa (THICE)

  university

• Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Transformationen im Wohnen und Generationenverträge in Europa (THICE)

  university

• University College Dublin

  Transformationen im Wohnen und Generationenverträge in Europa (THICE)

  university

Name

Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

Titel

Prof. Dr.

Fakultät

Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institut

Geographisches Institut

Arbeitsgruppe

Kultur- und Sozialgeographie

Telefon

+49 30 2093-45926

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