@phdthesis{Smirnova,
  author    = {Smirnova, Elena},
  title     = {"Kennst du das Land, wo bl{\"u}ht Oranienbaum?" - A Case Study on Strategic and Territorial Planning in St. Petersburg (Russia)},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3255},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170711-32556},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {The research examines the system of strategic and territorial planning of St. Petersburg focusing on Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) as its case study. The study provides the analysis of the planning documentation developed for the city in the post-Soviet period. In particular, it elaborates on the currently enforced Strategy of Economic and Social Development of St. Petersburg-2030 (2014) and the City General Plan (2005), discussing the aspects of their development and implementation, as well as complex interrelation. Thereby, peculiarities of the spatial development of the St. Petersburg agglomeration are also investigated, elaborating on the state policy on agglomerations, historic development of St. Petersburg and relations with the Leningrad Region, governance and imbalances of the St. Petersburg spatial development, including proposed development scenarios. Consequently, the study employs a highly indicative case of the Lomonosov town municipal unit aiming to illustrate the practical implementation of administrative, territorial and strategic policies in a given context within a system of the state planning adopted in St. Petersburg, in particular, taking into consideration recently proclaimed necessity for the transition to a polycentric city model following an innovative scenario for the socioeconomic and spatial development. In particular, Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) is explored egarding its current socio-economic situation and development scenarios: industrial site and cultural tourism. The Oranienbaum museum and nature-reserve is also thoroughly assessed with regard to its cultural tourism potential. Finally, the urban environment of Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) is comprehensively scrutinized in terms of its historic development, residential housing typology, UNESCO World Heritage preservation and local urban heritage. In conclusion, the data on Lomonosov present in the St. Petersburg strategic and territorial planning documents is provided.},
  subject      = {Lomonossow},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Nogueira2018,
  author    = {Nogueira, Priscilla},
  title     = {Brazilian battlers' housing. Histories of self-production - histories of social rise},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3895},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190506-38953},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {357},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Brazilian battlers' housing discusses the self-production of dwellings in the circumstances of the socioeconomic rise of the so-called Brazilian new middle class, occurred on the first decade of the years 2000. Battlers are a precarious working class of about 100 million people, who have used their recently increased purchase power to informally solve their private housing demands, planning, building and renovating their homes themselves, with limited technical knowledge and almost no access to formal technicians as for example architects. The result is a mode of housing production, which spreads over the territory in micro-local self-initiatives and informal social practices of construction and management. With the support of a controversial manpower, this practice presents all sorts of technical complications, but at the same time expedient ways of affordability and creative spatial solutions for ordinary constructive problems. Such initiatives have consolidated Brazilian informal settlements and peripheral subdivisions, attending a demand poorly responded by the government. This research recognises the benefits of the self-production, but questions the conditions under which it happens and asks if it really collaborates for a true social rise of those who are engaged in it. With an empirical and qualitative approach and taking dwelling construction processes leaded by battlers as main information sources, the academic work responds if and how the socioeconomic rise of the Brazilian battlers has exactly affected the self-production of dwellings. For that, battlers' self-production of dwellings is analysed and discussed in five main aspects: 1) acquisition of land and real state, 2) building overtime, 3) space and creative power, 4) technical complications and building materials and 5) manpower and know-how.},
  subject      = {Sozialwohnung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Oroz,
  author    = {Oroz, Gonzalo},
  title     = {Die Wege der Ungleichheit. Eine Studie {\"u}ber die Beziehung zwischen sozial-r{\"a}umlicher Segregation und Verkehrsinfrastruktur. Der Fall Santiago de Chile},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2924},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170412-29244},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {353},
  abstract  = {Die Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen des Baus von neuen Stadtautobahnen in Santiago de Chile. Ziel der Studie ist, die Ver{\"a}nderungen im Segregationsmuster der Hauptstadt Chiles, die durch den Bau dieser Autobahnen entstanden sind, zu beschreiben. Die Arbeit betrachtet die Entstehung von Segregationsmustern als kulturell-historisches Ph{\"a}nomen urbaner Bedeutung, weswegen die Entwicklung der Stadt Santiago und deren Segregationsmuster nicht nur aus der Perspektive der Stadtsoziologie und der Stadtgeographie, sondern auch aus einer historischen Perspektive analysiert wird. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit auf der Wechselbeziehung zwischen Verkehrsinfrastruktur und sozial-r{\"a}umlicher Verteilung der verschiedenen sozialen Gruppen. Die Entstehung der neuen Stadtautobahnen in Santiago de Chile l{\"a}sst sich nur durch eine mehrdimensionale Betrachtung erkl{\"a}ren. Diese Bauten und die besondere Art in der sie gebaut und betrieben werden, konnten nur durch die Einf{\"u}hrung von Konzessionsmechanismen innerhalb einer neoliberalen Markwirtschaft entstehen. In diesem sozial-{\"o}konomischer Rahmen, bei dem die B{\"u}rger lediglich als potenzielle Kunden betrachtet werden, sind die Infrastrukturbauten - darunter auch die Stadtautobahnen - maßgeschneiderte Produkte f{\"u}r eine Minderheit. Dieses Konzept hat gravierende Folgen f{\"u}r das Sozialgef{\"u}ge der Stadt Santiago. Die Folgen der Einf{\"u}hrung der Stadtautobahnen auf das Segregationsmuster und das Sozialgef{\"u}ge der Hauptstadt Chiles werden anhand zweier Fallstudien veranschaulicht. Mittels einer mehrschichtigen qualitativen Methodik werden die Auswirkungen des Baus von Stadtautobahnen im Armenviertel »Santo Tom{\´a}s« des s{\"u}dlichen Stadtbezirk »La Pintana« und im elit{\"a}ren »Condominio La Reserva« im n{\"o}rdlichen Ausdehnungsgebiet »Chacabuco« analysiert. Anschließend wird ein neues Beschreibungsmodell f{\"u}r die lateinamerikanische Stadt vorgeschlagen; das »symbiotische Stadtmodell« st{\"u}tzt sich zum gr{\"o}ßten Teil auf den Ausbau des Autobahnnetzes.},
  subject      = {Segregation},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Ciesla,
  author    = {Ciesla, Agnieszka},
  title     = {"Shrinking city" in Eastern Germany. The Term in the context of urban development in Poland},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1869},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130325-18694},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {170},
  abstract  = {The aim of this doctoral thesis was to investigate whether the German term "shrinking city" is appropriate to depopulating Polish cities. In order to do so an attempt to define the currently still vague notion of "shrinking city" was made. The urban development of Eastern Germany was thoroughly examined both in a short term perspective and in a wide historical as well as international context, with the Polish urban development used as reference. 25 cities (kreisfreie St{\"a}dte) in Eastern Germany and depopulating Polish cities: Ł{\´o}d{\'{z}} and the Metropolis Silesia were chosen as case studies. On the basis of the gathered information a "shrinking city" in Eastern Germany was defined as a city with a long-lasting population decrease coupled with over-dimensioned, growth-oriented development policies carried out for decades. Such a development path is triggering negative consequences in the spatial, economic and also demographic dimension, which tend to intensify each other. The thesis postulates that the definition of the "shrinking city in Eastern Germany" is not appropriate to depopulating cities in Poland. Polish cities are characterized by a short-lasting population decrease and this trend is not triggering negative spatial and economic consequences. Oversized growth development policies were never present in the cities and they still suffer from great deficiencies in housing and other basic infrastructure, which derive from the socialist period. Furthermore, radical de-economization, known from Eastern German cities, did not occur in the Polish cities. Both Ł{\´o}d{\'{z}} and the Metropolis Silesia remain main production centers of the country. This doctoral thesis presents a contradictory view to contemporary publications on "shrinking cities", in which this phenomenon is regarded as having occurred suddenly after the collapse of the socialism. It proved that "shrinking cities" in Eastern Germany are not the outcome of short-lasting processes, but are deeply rooted in the past. Moreover, they represent a very distinct development pattern that highly differentiates from the one found in Central Eastern Europe and the one in Western Europe. In this way the doctoral thesis provided a new, critical approach to the discourse on "shrinking cities" in Germany. It also draws attention to the importance of the historical analysis in cities' development research, particularly in cross border studies. In time of European integration peculiarities resulting from centuries of different spatial, economic and social development paths should not be underestimated.},
  subject      = {Stadtplanung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{JeanBaptiste,
  author    = {Jean-Baptiste, Nathalie},
  title     = {People centered approach towards food waste management in the urban environment of Mexico},
  address   = {Weimar},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2063},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20131024-20633},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {297},
  abstract  = {A more careful consideration of food waste is needed for planning the urban environment. The research signals links between the organization of individuals, the built environment and food waste management through a study conducted in Mexico. It recognizes the different scales within which solid waste management operates, explores food waste production at household levels, and investigates the urban circumstances that influence its management. This is based on the idea that sustainable food waste management in cities requires a constellation of processes through which a 'people centered' approach offers added value to technical and biological facts. This distinction addresses how urban systems react to waste and what behavioral and structural factors affect current sanitary practices in Mexico. Food waste is a resource-demanding item, which makes for a considerable amount of refuse being disposed of in landfills in developing cities. The existing data shortage on waste generation at household levels debilitates implementation strategies and there is a need for more contextual knowledge associated with waste. The evidence-based study includes an explorative phase on the culture of waste management and a more in-depth examination of domestic waste composition. Mixed data collection tools including a household based survey, a food waste diary and weighing recording system were developed to enquire into the daily practices of waste disposal in households. The contrasting urban environment of Mexico City Metropolitan Area holds indistinctive boundaries between the core and the periphery, which hinder the implementation of integrated environmental plans. External determinants are different modes of urban transformation and internal determinants are building features and their consolidation processes. At the household level, less and more affluents groups responded differently to external environmental stressors. A targeted planning proposition is required for each group. Local alternative waste management is more likely to be implement in less affluent contexts. Further, more effective demand-driven service delivery implies better integration between the formal and informal sectors. The results show that efforts toward securing long-term changes in Mexico and other cities with similar circumstances require creating synergy between education, building consolidation, local infrastructure and social engagement.},
  subject      = {Food Waste Management},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Camerin,
  author    = {Camerin, Federico},
  title     = {THE ROLE OF THE GREAT PROPERTY IN THE EUROPEAN CITY-MAKING PROCESS IN THE LAST THIRD OF THE 20th CENTURY. MILITARY PROPERTY AS REFERENCE},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4201},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200714-42018},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {453},
  abstract  = {The thesis concerns a work of urban history intended not to describe the city but rather to interpret it. By doing so, I have interpreted the city by means of the role played by the so-called 'great property' in the European city-making process during the last three decades of the 20th century, specifically focused on the concrete case of military properties in Italy. I have also considered the role played by other kinds of great properties, i.e. industries and railway, which previously acted in the production of the built environment in a different way respect to the military one. As all of them have as common denominator the fact of being 'capital in land', I analysed great industrial and railway properties in order to extrapolate a methodology which helped me to interpret the relationship between military properties and city-making process in Europe in the late 20th century. I have analysed the relationship between the capital in land and the city-making process on the ground of the understanding the interrelation between the great property, the urban development, and the agents involved in the urban and territorial planning. Here I have showed that urban planning is not the decisive factor influencing the citymaking process, but instead the power held by the capital in land. I have found that is the great property the trigger of the creation of new 'areas of centrality' intended as large areas for consumerism. As far as the role played by great property is concerned, I have also discovered that it has evolved over time. Originally, industrial and railway properties have been regenerated into a wide range of new profit-driven spaces; successively, I have found out that most of the regeneration of military premises aimed to materialise areas of centrality. The way of interpreting this factor has been based on focusing my attention on the military premises in Italy: I have classified their typology when they have been built and, most importantly, when they have been regenerated into new areas of centrality.},
  subject      = {Stadtplanung},
  language  = {en}
}