Urban research − understanding urban change in its diversity

Together with colleagues, ILS-Researcher Barbara Schröter has published an article in the journal „Futures“. They present three radical visions of the Amazon they co-created with 20 Black, Indigenous, and other Women of Color (BIWOC) from the Putomayo department in Colombia. Storytelling serves as a tool to capture the BIWOCs differentiated experience of the world and their collective emancipation from different forms of oppression. This way, western dominated imaginaries are challenged and decolonial practices incorporated in to sustainability transformation research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103638. Further current selected papers can be found here.

Nils Hans, resarcher in the ILS research group „Urban Social Space“ has published a contribution to the „Handbuch Stadtsoziologie“ together with Miriam Neßler from TU Berlin. They explain the concepts of arrival quarters and arrival infrastructures. These concepts provide a new angle to gasp the interplay of migration and urban development. They are an expression of a changing view on neighborhoods shaped by immigration and answers on current migratory dynamics, such as increasing diversity and changed immigration patterns. The concepts offer important perspectives for understanding and describing arrival dynamics and conditions. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42419-0_12-1. Further current selected papers can be found here.

ILS-researchers Dr. Kathrin Specht and Chiara Iodice, in collaboration with other colleagues, published a paper in the journal „Sustainable Cities and Society“. In this paper, they challenge claims about the presumed immeasurability of social impacts of City-region food system initiatives (CRFSIs). Through the review of 234 research papers, they retrieved social indicators and metrics that underline the proven and measurable impact of CRFSIs on social sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106462. Further current selected papers can be found here.

Jonas Marschall aus der Forschungsgruppe „Raumbezogene Planung und Städtebau“ hat einen Aufsatz in der Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht veröffentlicht. Darin geht es um die räumliche Steuerung von Photovoltaik-Freiflächenanlagen. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748954552-43 Weitere aktuelle Fachpublikationen finden Sie hier.

The ILS researchers Lisa Garde and Cornelia Tippel have published an article in the special issue Multilocalism in the Fuori Luogo Journal of Sociology of Territory, Tourism, Technology. In it, they examined the company loyalty of employees with multiple residences. The aim was to analyse the company loyalty of multinational employees working in Stuttgart (Germany) and to find out how such ties influence multinational coexistence. https://doi.org/10.6093/2723-9608/9444. Further current selected papers can be found here.