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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
Wo die Zuagrasten aus anderen Bundesländern in Wien leben
Yvonne Franz talked to derStandard about where domestic migrants settle in Vienna – check out the article here!
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!
Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. An A-Z Guide
This book provides a highly accessible and user-friendly overview of the essential concepts and terms related to the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.
Overlooked people, places, and practices: shifting the gaze in Asian and South African cities
Overlooked cities, being overlooked, counter-overlooking: With these three terms, the special issue of the journal Urbanisation, edited by Isolde de Villiers and Julia Wesely, encourages a critical reflection on so-called “global” urban research from the perspective of the misrecognized, the poorly recognized and the unrecognized…
Book review: Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City
The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife
Circle U. Climate Day 2026
On Wednesday, 22 of April 2026, the second Circle U. Climate Day will take place at University of Vienna. As in the previous year, different activities will be conducted on the same day across all nine Circle U. partner universities.
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.
