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Book review: Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City

The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife

Circle U. Climate Day at the University of Vienna, June 5th 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.

News from the Sustainability Challenge

Practice partners and universities: Together for the SDGs |
Service Learning – theory meets practice

Crafting environmental justice through co-learning

With a population over one million, Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, faces serious challenges around provision of services, housing and infrastructure, all exacerbated by climate change…

Pursuing aspirations for decent sanitation work:

How informal workers navigate the universe of rules that shape sanitation practices in urban Africa

Urban Cultures of Care: Mapping (Un)Care in Urban Everyday Life

This paper elaborates on Joan Tronto’s feminist care ethics with a particular focus on her relational principle of caring-with. Drawing on her broad understanding of care, which includes both informal and formalised forms of care, we argue…

Student housing as an asset class: (German)

Change processes on the Austrian student housing market using the example of Vienna and Innsbruck

290075 EX Excursion abroad Democracy and climate change adaptation in Berlin and Vienna (2025S)

VO Circle U. – Lecture series: Natural Hazards, Vulnerability and Disasters (2025S)

Book review: Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City

The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife

Crafting environmental justice through co-learning

With a population over one million, Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, faces serious challenges around provision of services, housing and infrastructure, all exacerbated by climate change…

Pursuing aspirations for decent sanitation work:

How informal workers navigate the universe of rules that shape sanitation practices in urban Africa

Joint Inaugural Lecture

Kerstin Krellenberg’s inaugural lecture for the professorship at the Institute of Geography and Regional Research will take place on January 11, 2023 in the main hall of the University of Vienna. Find out more here…

Hitze, Überschwemmungen und Co. – Klimawandel findet Stadt und statt

The lecture by Kerstin Krellenberg at the University of Vienna on Youtube. (German)

ERN-Environmental Engagements:talks.

Kerstin Krellenberg talking about “Urban Sustainability Transformations” on Youtube.

Circle U. Climate Day at the University of Vienna, June 5th 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.

Lecture series “Natural hazards, vulnerability and disasters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”

The lecture series takes place as part of the extension curriculum for Bachelor students at the Institute of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna.

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.

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!

JETzt: Podcast

How to get more trees in the city – how to create an efficient green infrastructure in the city? Episode 25 of the JETzt podcast features Kerstin Krellenberg.

What works against the housing crisis?

ARTE Europa Weekly with Yvonne Franz

The city of the future – Ö1 Science Arena

At the invitation of Barbara Dalheimer, urban researcher Kerstin Krellenberg and architect Bernd Vlay discussed the city of the future.

The Materials of the Future: Lecture and panel discussion at the University of Vienna

The lecture by Mark Miodownik and the subsequent panel discussion (with Kerstin Krellenberg, among others) on the semester question: What will our future be made of?
Available on YouTube!

News from the Sustainability Challenge

Practice partners and universities: Together for the SDGs |
Service Learning – theory meets practice

Lecture series “Natural hazards, vulnerability and disasters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”

The lecture series takes place as part of the extension curriculum for Bachelor students at the Institute of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna.

Reimagining Urban Education – Podcast

Yvonne Franz reflects together with Stefan de Corte on the 4Cities Master, which will come to an end in 2025