@article{SanderWeissermel,
  author    = {Sander, Hendrik and Weißermel, S{\"o}ren},
  title     = {Urban Heat Transition in Berlin: Corporate Strategies, Political Conflicts, and Just Solutions},
  series = {Urban Planning},
  volume    = {2023},
  journal   = {Urban Planning},
  number    = {Volume 8, No 1},
  publisher = {Cogitatio Press},
  address   = {Lissabon},
  doi       = {10.17645/up.v8i1.6178},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230524-63845},
  pages     = {361 -- 371},
  abstract  = {In the field of urban climate policy, heat production and demand are key sectors for achieving a sustainable city. Heat production has to shift from fossil to renewable energies, and the heat demand of most buildings has to be reduced significantly via building retrofits. However, analyses of heat transition still lack its contextualization within entangled urban politico-economic processes and materialities and require critical socio-theoretical examination. Asking about the embeddedness of heat transition within social relations and its implications for social justice issues, this article discusses the challenges and opportunities of heat transition, taking Berlin as an example. It uses an urban political ecology perspective to analyze the materialities of Berlin's heating-housing nexus, its politico-economic context, implications for relations of inequality and power, and its contested strategies. The empirical analysis identifies major disputes about the future trajectory of heat production and about the distribution of retrofit costs. Using our conceptual approach, we discuss these empirical findings against the idea of a more just heat transition. For this purpose, we discuss three policy proposals regarding cost distribution, urban heat planning, and remunicipalization of heat utilities. We argue that this conceptual approach provides huge benefits for debates around heat transition and, more generally, energy justice and just transitions.},
  subject      = {Berlin},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Bockelmann,
  author    = {Bockelmann, Leo},
  title     = {Impacts of Change: Analysing the Perception of Industrial Heritage in the Vogtland Region},
  series = {Urban Planning},
  volume    = {2023},
  journal   = {Urban Planning},
  number    = {Volume 8, No 1},
  publisher = {Cogitatio Press},
  address   = {Lissabon},
  doi       = {10.17645/up.v8i1.6025},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230524-63814},
  pages     = {30 -- 38},
  abstract  = {Beyond metropolitan areas, many peripheral regions and their cities in Europe have, in manifold ways, been significantly shaped by industrialisation. In the context of the relocation of industrial production to other countries over the last decades, the question has been raised as to the role this heritage can play in futural regional development as well as the potential local identification with this history. Hence, this article seeks to analyse the perception of the industrial heritage in the Vogtland region, located alongside the border of three German federal states and the Czech Republic. It inquires as to the perception of the industrial heritage by the local population and related potential future narrations. Based on spontaneous and explorative interviews with local people as an empirical base, a discrepancy between the perception of the tangible and intangible dimensions of the industrial heritage can be observed. On the one hand, the tangible heritage like older factories and production complexes are seen as a functional legacy and an "eyesore" narrative is attributed to them. On the other hand, people often reference the personal and familial connection to the industry and highlight its importance for the historical development and the wealth of the region. But these positive associations are mainly limited to the intangible dimension and are disconnected from the material artefacts of industrial production.},
  subject      = {Vogtland},
  language  = {en}
}