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Conferences
An overview of the various conferences our group has hosted and participated in, with topics varying from sustainability transformation to resilience & spatial planning. -
Media
Interviews, videos, podcasts and blog articles help to inform the interested public about our commitment. -
Publications
Here you will find a selection of publications by members of the Urban Studies working group. -
Workshops
Check out the various workshops our group has hosted or participated in, the various methods used, and intriguing topics covered.
Yesterday an industrial site, today vacant and tomorrow…?
The webinar presents the results of the project seminar on dealing with brownfield sites in Lower Austria. The former textile factory in Hirschbach/Waldviertel served 15 Master’s students as a…
Circle U. Climate Day at the University of Vienna, 5 June 2025
The Circle U. Climate Day is an initiative of the Circle U. Knowledge Hub on Climate and will be held for the first time on June 5, 2025 and will take place simultaneously at all nine partner universities of the Circle U. Alliance at the same time.
Call for Abstracts – Urban Studies at the EUGEO2025 Congress
Call for Abstracts – Urban Studies at the EUGEO2025 Congress The 10th Congress of the Association of Geographical Societies in Europe (EUGEO 2025) will take place from 8-11 September 2025 in Vienna. Hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, it seeks to analyse and discuss Geographies of a Changing Europe. The Call for Abstracts is
Reimagining Urban Education – Podcast
Yvonne Franz reflects together with Stefan de Corte on the 4Cities Master, which will come to an end in 2025
The Urban Political Podcast: Sanitation and the right to citylife
Listen to the podcast about urban sanitation with Julia Wesely and other experts from different universities!
Advisory Board – City of Vienna
Kerstin Krellenberg was reappointed to the City of Vienna’s Advisory Board for Urban Planning, Urban Design and World Heritage as an expert in urban ecology and climate change adaptation for the 2024-2027 term of office.
Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt from the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post-2030 Agenda
Kerstin Krellenberg and Julia Wesely edited a Special Issue in the Urban Planning Journal together with Florian Koch and Sarah Beyer from the University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin. The Issue titled Future Urban Sustainability brings together diverse contributions to reflect on conceptual, methodological and practical barriers and advances in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and beyond.
Invitation to the book presentation
Kooperative Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung (Cooperative urban and regional development) will be presented on March 12. Please register to attend the discussion with the editors Yvonne Franz and Martin Heintel.
Stadtgeographie – Aktuelle Themen und Ansätze
Städte sind Gamechanger globaler wie lokaler Veränderungsprozesse geworden. Ob Klimakrise, Mobilitäts- und Energiewende, Digitalisierung oder demographischer Wandel – Städte sind nicht nur Orte, an denen diese Themen stattfinden, sie versprechen oftmals auch die notwendigen Hebelwirkungen, um Wandel, Wende und Transformation zu verorten und umzusetzen…
ZOE Stakeholder Workshop in Slovenia
On December 12, 2025, the last of a total of five stakeholder workshops for the ZOE-project took place in in Postojna, Slovenia. The aim of the workshop was to identify and discuss local behaviours and structural factors in the emergence of zoonoses.
Co-Creating Urban Agriculture Impact Pathways with Participatory Systems Mapping
On December 11th, 2025, James Vandenberg had the opportunity to host a gamified participatory systems-mapping workshop with researchers from the Centre for Innovation Systems & Policy at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). The session brought together a diverse group of innovation scholars who engaged deeply with the challenge of identifying and prioritizing urban agriculture’s array of impacts and exploring how they influence one another within complex urban systems.
Scaling Urban Agriculture’s Resilience & Sustainability Impacts in Vienna: A participatory co-creation workshop
Scaling Urban Agriculture’s Resilience & Sustainability Impacts in Vienna: A participatory co-creation workshop On September 16th, 2025, twenty participants representing urban farms, research groups, community organizations, and policymakers came together at the University of Vienna for a half-day workshop to explore one key question: How can Vienna harness and scale Urban Agriculture’s multifunctional benefits over
