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07/29/2025

New publication by Raffael Beier

The article analyses how political actors mobilize a moral discourse to criticize practices of renting and selling state-subsidized housing by the…

07/29/2025

New publication by Raffael Beier

The article deals with the lived experiences of non-occupation and secondary mobility in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

07/29/2025

Raffael Beier secures the Seminar Series Award of the Urban Studies Foundation (USF)

Raffael Beier received together with his colleagues a funding through the USF Seminar Series Award 2025-2026.

06/12/2025

Sophie Schramm and Deljana Iossifova give a lecture on urban infrastructure - as part of the seminar for urban research

Sophie Schramm and Deljana Iossifova share findings from their empirical research on urban infrastructure.

06/10/2025

Past F-project "Planning and Dirt", published an article in the current issue of the trade journal RaumPlanung

The article deals critically with implicit assumptions of planning.

06/03/2025

New article on coping strategies published

Girma Mulu Alemu, Sophie Schramm, and Wilbard Jackson Kombe have published an article on the topic of smallholder farmers' coping strategies.

05/22/2025

Lecture by Sophie Schramm on water infrastructure in Nairobi

Under the title "Heterogeneous and ordinary - Nairobi's water infrastructures between everyday life and crisis", Prof. Dr. Sophie Schramm on 21. May…

05/09/2025

ICOLMA Project Website is online

The website for our ICOLMA research project is now online.

04/16/2025

New article on infrastructure segments

New article by D. Nthoki Nyamai and Sophie Schramm discusses the evolution of infrastructure segments in Nairobi.