Selected Conference Papers

‘Epistemic communities: Über die Konstruktion von Metropolregionen als wettbewerbsfähige Räume. Oder: wie wissenschaftliches Wissen politikfähig gemacht wird’, at the 11. Symposium zur Wirtschaftsgeographie in Rauischholzhausen, 29 April 2011

‘Suburban areas – a case of stigmatized urban quarters?’, at the 2011 Annual Conference of the AAG, 13 April 2011 in Seattle, Washington (USA)

‘Identität und Raum: Das Beispiel Wohnen (Geographie)’, Ringvorlesung ‘Identität: Dekonstruktion eines Begriffs’, 23 March 2011 at UL

Welcome to ‘Foreclosureville’. Credit crunch and the search for resilient suburbs – a case study of Northern California, USA, at the 2010 Annual Conference of the RGS/IBG, 2 Sep 2010 in London

„Neue Attraktivität: und wenn ja, wie viele?“ Input at the project workshop on „A New Attractiveness of Cities?“, organized by the BBSR, 7 July in Bonn (more HERE )

"Reurbanisation: framing and shaping the city through urban discourses", at the International Conference “Towards a communicative construction of spaces”, Erkner near Berlin, 29 May 2010

"German city regions: urban, not necessarily metropolitan. A critical commentary on the political construction of metropolitan regions", at the 2010 AAG Annual Conference, Washington D.C., 14 April 2010

"Der Binnenhafen als Gewerbestandort: Arbeitsmarkt vs. Stadtverträglichkeit", at the Binnen_Land-conference "Wie gehen die Städte mit ihren Häfen um"?, Berlin, 25 February 2010

 „Metropolitan Peripheries in Germany: the empirical evidence”. Symposium „Metropolitan Peripheries in Germany and Japan“ of the Japanese-German-Centre, Tokyo, 28 October 2009

„Suburbs – the next Slum? Ungleiche Entwicklungsdynamik und Regenerierungspotenzial im Lebenszyklus suburbaner Räume Nordamerikas“, at the Deutscher Geographentag 2009, 21 September 2009 in Vienna, Austria

„Zur Governance der Creative Industries“, co-authored with Bastian Lange, at the Deutscher Geographentag 2009, 20 September 2009 in Vienna, Austria

“Re-theorizing urban geography: a transnational playing field for social and cultural geographies?”, at the 2009 Annual Conference of RGS-IBG, 28 August 2009 in Manchester, UK

“The Luxembourg air-freight hub: market niche development, supply chain-insertion, global positionality”, at the International Colloquium ‘From Airport City to Airport Region?’ at the University of Karlsruhe, 10 July 2009

„Luxemburg: Mikrometropole im globalen Netzwerk der flows“, at the 10th Symposium on Economic Geography in Rauischholzhausen, 24 April 2009

„A micro-metropolis in the global network of flows: the case of Luxembourg and airfreight”, at the 2008 Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 23 March 2009 in Las Vegas (Nevada)

„The spatial rationale and structure of gateway regions, ports and inland terminals”, at the „Deltatag 2009“ of the RSD Rhein-Schelde-Delta, 8 December 2008 in Antwerp, The Netherlands

„Suburbs – the next slum? Explorations into the contested terrain of social construction and political discourse”, at the Conference „Revisiting the 'Urban' and the 'Rural': Spatial Representations and Practices”, 5 December 2008, University of Luxembourg

„Raum und Zeit: neue Muster des aktionsräumlichen Handelns“, at the Conference „e-motion 2008“, 21 October 2009 in Bonn
 
„Suburbs – the next slum?”, at the International Symposium „Shinking Cities ff“, 17 October 2008 in Berlin

‘Cities, flows and the geography of spatial interaction. A typology of urban places’. At the 104th Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 18.4.2008 in Boston, Massachusetts

‘Logistikregionen als strategischer Ansatz der regionalen Entwicklung‘. At the Colloquium of the Chair of Economic Geography and Regional Studies of the University of Bayreuth, 15.1.2008 in Bayreuth

‘Feuer als Faktor der Regionalentwicklung. Waldbrandereignisse und gesellschaftlicher Diskurs: das Beispiel Galicien, Spanien’. At the Bi-annual Conference of the German Society of Geographers (Deutscher Geographentag), FS 12 – Geographische Waldbrandforschung, 2.10.2007 in Bayreuth

‘Alltagsort, Transitraum, Drehscheibe. Die Stadtregion in der Welt der flows’. At the Centennial Symposium ‘Lebensraum Stadtregion’ of Deutscher Werkbund, 29.6.2007 in Frankfurt/Main

‘The physical geography of the network city: infrastructural dimensions’. Co-paper with Prof. Dr. Martin Wachs (Rand, Santa Monica), in the paper series ‘The Network City’ of the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS), TU Berlin, 8.5.2007 in Berlin

‘Logistik in Unternehmensnetzen und Wertschöpfungsketten: ein missing link der Wirtschaftsgeographie‘. At the 9th Symposium of Economic Geography, 28.4.2007 in Rauischholzhausen

‘Shrinking cities, demografic change, and the politics of urbanization. A discourse analysis’. At the 103rd Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 21.4.2007 in San Francisco, California

‘Zum Verhältnis von Stadt und Warenwirtschaft – eine kritische Reflektion aus Sicht von Stadtökonomie und Stadtplanung‘. At the Conference ‘Logistics and Urban Planning’ at the University of Dortmund, 13.9.2006 in Dortmund

 ‘Schrumpfende oder atmende Stadt? Überlegungen zur Einordnung von Schrumpfungsprozessen in die Urbanisierung’. At the Annual Conference of the Institute for Comparative Urban History (IStG gGmbH), 27.3.2006 in Münster

‘Switzerland – An Urban Portrait’. Discussant on the ‘Author meets critics’-panel with Christian Schmid, at the 102nd Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 9.3.2006 in Chicago, Illinois

‘Gateway cities, hinterland and the network: re-conceptualizing flows and places in the post-industrial city’. At the 102nd Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 9.3.2006 in Chicago, Illinois

‘Reife, Stagnation oder Wende? Deutsche und internationale Perspektiven zu Suburbanisierung und Zwischenstadt’. Introduction to FS 1 at the 55th Conference of the German Society of Geographers (Deutscher Geographentag), 3.10.2005 in Trier

‘Transformation of cities in view of comparative urban studies’. Discussant to Roger Keil, Workshop of the North America Working Group of the German Society of Geographers (DGfG), at the 55th Conference of the German Society of Geographers (Deutscher Geographentag), 6.10.2005 in Trier

‘Selling the region as a hub: on the construction of space by creating logistics regions, dedicated to the distribution of goods’. At the Annual Conference of the RGS with IBG, 2.9.2005 in London

‘Global chain, local pain, and the question of power: how to manage the regional implications of global production and distribution networks’. At the 101st Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 7.4.2005 in Denver, Colorado

‘Suburbanisierung, Postsuburbia, Schrumpfung: Gegenstand und Deutungsangebote der Stadtforschung’. At the Colloquium of the Institute for Regional and Urban Studies (ILS) of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia, 19.1.2005 in Dortmund

 ‘Logistics and freight transport policy in urban areas. A case study of Berlin-Brandenburg/Germany’. At the International Geographical Congress (IGC), 17.8.2004 in Glasgow

‘Stadtleben - Citylife: How do lifestyles and spatial milieux explain urban mobility (daily, residential)’? At the annual meeting of the IGU-Commission ‘Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow’,11.8.2004 in Glasgow

‘Handlung oder Raum? Die Rolle der Geographie in einer modernen Verkehrswissenschaft’. At the Colloquium of the Geographical Institute of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 9.6.2004 in Erlangen

‘Re-thinking distribution: bringing together the economic and transport geographies of logistics’. At the Centennial Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 18.3.2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

‘The Transport Geography of Freight Distribution and Logistics – North American and Western European Perspectives’. At Focus Group 1-meeting (Globalisation, E-Economy and Trade) of the Transatlantic research network STELLA, 25.4.2003 in Brussels, with Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

Statement on the research field ‘Suburbia’, at the ‘Forum Bau und Raum’ of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), 27.3.2003 in Berlin

‘Land for logistics: locational dynamics, real estate markets and political regulation’. At the 99th Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, 5.3.2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana

‘Geographies of Distribution’. At the 98th Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 22.3.2002 in Los Angeles, California

‘Investigating logistics and distribution in an urban context. Case studies from Northern California and Berlin/Brandenburg’. At the UC Transportation Center, UC California at Berkeley, 19.3.2002 in Berkeley, California

‘Wohnmilieus, Lebensstile und räumliche Mobilität in ostdeutschen Stadtlandschaften‘. At the 53rd Conference of the German Society of Geographers (Deutscher Geographentag), 5.10.2001 in Leipzig

‘The City as a Terminal – Freight transport as an indicator of urban and regional development’. At the annual meeting of the IGU-Commission ‘Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow’, 7.8.2001 in Calgary, Canada

‘Warenwirtschaft, technologische Innovationen und Raumentwicklung. Logistik und (Sub-) Urbanisierung im transatlantischen Vergleich’. At the annual meeting of the North America Working Group of the German Society of Geographers (DGfG), 1.12.2000 in Bonn

‘Städte im Binnenland – vom Marktplatz und Zentrum des Warenumschlags zum logistischen Satelliten?‘. At the 52nd Conference of the German Society of Geographers (Deutscher Geographentag), 5.10.1999 in Hamburg (Leitthema B: Weltwirtschaft, Mobilität und Hafenstädte, Sitzung 1: Welthandel, Verkehrswirtschaft und neue Technologien)

‘Freight transport and logistics in city regions: driving forces for counter-urbanization? Investigations on the modern urban landscape’. At the ‘SCAST-Conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport’, funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF), 4.3.1999 in Berkeley, California

‘Sustainable mobility - aims, methods, strategies’. At the International Conference ‘Urban Ecology’ of the Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle (UFZ), 26.06.1997 in Leipzig

‘From city-logistics to urban logistics’. At the Conference ‘City-Logistics’ of the Association Suisse pour Logistique (SGL/ASL), 6.05.1996 in Basel (CH)

‘Environmental research in Germany’. At the International Conference ‘Think-Tanks in Germany and the USA’, University of Pennsylvania, 16.11.1993 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

‘A regional freight-traffic round table’. At the International Conference ‘Shaping Cities’ of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN '92), 15.10.1992 in Paris

‘Regionale Konzepte nachhaltiger Entwicklung am Beispiel von zwei Regionen in Ost und West‘. At the Conference ‘Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften - aber wie?’ of the ‘Global Challenges Network’ (GCN), 04./05.02.1992 in Tutzing