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Department of Spatial Planning

The list below provides information on all finished research projects at the Spatial Modelling Lab. This includes doctoral dissertations, third-party funded projects, and self-financed research.

Increasingly globalised and globally connected lifestyles pose a variety of challenges to urban life. Only with an intercultural understanding of how people perceive and experience space and place can some of these challenges be understood and overcome. A new cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture, Uni­ver­sity of Hong Kong, addresses this aspect by means of case studies in both Dortmund and Hong Kong. Learn more