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Department of Spatial Planning
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We are a state-of-the-art research centre specialising in spatial and place-based scholarship and teaching.

01/31/2025

New paper on the involvement of public transport authorities in MaaS developments

Our lab member Ibrahim Mubiru published a paper in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
01/21/2025

New paper on advancing sacrifice zone analysis

Víctor Cobs-Muñoz and René Westerholt have published a new article in Progress in Environmental Geography on advancing sacrifice zone analysis.
12/20/2024

We congratulate Víctor Cobs-Muñoz on winning a 2024 TU Dortmund Teaching Award

The award was presented as part of Víctor's involvement in the cross-faculty Summer School for Sustainability.
Lecturers of the Summer School of Sustainability receiving a Teaching Award
12/13/2024

New paper on associations between sense of place and its spatial footprints

René Westerholt has published a new article in the journal Urban Research & Practice on the interplay of sense of place and its spatial footprints.
Examples of a simple and a complex sketched polygon from Lisbon
11/20/2024

Invited joint RGS-GISRUK webinar

René Westerholt held an invited webinar jointly organised by the Royal Geographical Society and GISRUK.
Logos of the Royal Geographical Society and GISRUK
10/17/2024

Walking interviews in Marzahn, Berlin

Liudmila Slivinskaya has conducted a round of walking and photo-elicitation interviews with long-term residents of Marzahn housing estate in Berlin.
09/03/2024

Participation at the Environmental Justice Conference 2024, Switzerland

Víctor Cobs-Muñoz presented insights on using critical realism to address environmental justice in sacrifice zones at the 3rd International…
  Víctor Cobs-Muñoz presenting at the conference.
08/30/2024

International Society for Spatial Methods was launched

René Westerholt joins the newly established International Society for Spatial Methods as Executive Committee member.
Logo of the International Society for Spatial Methods