By: Dorothee Rummel (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Munich) Download PDF “Urban living can be bad for our physical and mental health?” “City life and its spatial conditions have a…
By: Felix Mauch. Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich. Download PDF In contemporary capitalism, making is inseparable from moving. The world is bound up in supply chains, moving commodities from…
By: Stephan Pauleit. TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich. Download PDF Urbanization is a major trend of the twenty-first century. This trend provides opportunities and causes social, economic, and environmental challenges, such as an unsustainably high ecological footprint, low environmental quality in often…
By: Ferdinand Ludwig. Department of Architecture, Technical University of Munich Download PDF Today, buildings are considered to be environmentally friendly if they cause as little damage to the environment as…
By: Young Rae Choi, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University Download PDF In the geographies of coasts and oceans, reclamation refers to a spatial practice that converts…
By: Sasha Gora, Ca'Foscari University of Venice. Download PDF Somewhere between winter’s last roar and spring’s early optimism, I go in search of lunch. A couple of blocks from my…
The Schlachthof is Munich's historical slaughterhouse district, with the word "Schlachthof" literally translating to "slaughterhouse" in English. It represents our second case study of Spaces of Living in Transformation in Munich. Over the past…
If you have ever had the chance to visit Munich or have perhaps even lived there, it is likely that you have gone for a stroll along the Isar river…
A report of the 26 June 2020 UEI Virtual Workshop The Urban Environments Initiative (UEI) is a collaborative venture between the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the Technische Universität München (TUM), the…
The Urban Environments Initiative (UEI) was launched in October 2019 as a collaborative venture between the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the Technische Universität München (TUM), the University of Cambridge, and New York University.…