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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.

04/17/2025

Contribution to the Australian Workshop on Spatial Methods

Fillipe Feitosa delivered a presentation and was session chair at the 2025 Australian Workshop on Spatial Methods.
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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.
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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.