Education, Space and Urban Planning ― Education As a Component of the City

This book examines a range of practical developments at the interface between urban development and education. It presents perceptions and insights from urban planning/urbanism, geography, architecture, education and pedagogy. It reflects both scientific work and practical experience, and does so from a combined German and international perspective. The book is structured along different scales on which the interfaces and interlacings between education and urban development are addressed: education and the region, the city, the city quarter and the school within a city quarter. In the broad socio-political discussion on the topic of education conducted in the last decade, it has become apparent that space and the urban context are important dimensions of education and that education is gaining importance for urban development. The coordination between the two subject areas of education and urban development requires consideration and investigation. The young field of research on education and urban development currently lacks a discussion of urban planning considerations in education, empirical research, and research from the spatial and planning sciences, as well as integrated and interdisciplinary reflection on education and urban development. In Germany as well as in an international context, there are first approaches in theory and practice to bring together the fields of urban development and education. This book fills the gap and represents those first approaches.

Prof Dr phil Thomas Coelen did his doctorate in 2001 at the Department of Education at the University of Hamburg on “Education and Municipal Public. On the Relationship between Youth Work and School in the Respect to a Spatial Identity Formation”. Following a postdoctoral fellowship of the DFG research training group “Youth Welfare in Change” at the University of Bielefeld (11/2002---10/2004), he joined two professorships (University of Rostock and Siegen). His habilitation thesis entitled “All-day Education: Foundations – Institutionalization – Research Perspectives” he handed in at the Faculty of Education at the University of Bielefeld in 2005/2006. Since 09/2009 he is full professor of education with a focus on socialization, youth education and life course research at the University of Siegen.

Dipl-Ing Anna Juliane Heinrich completed her studies in spatial planning at TU Dortmund University in 2011. Her studies were funded by a full scholarship. Her diploma thesis was awarded the second prize of NRW.BANK.Preis “Housing and the City” and? was published in 2013 by the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. Since 2011 she has been researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Berlin Institute of Technology. She is a phd candidate. The working title of her dissertation is “Education and Urban Development – Educational Landscapes and their materialization in the built environment”.

Prof Dr-Ing Angela Million was researcher and lecturer at the Chair for Urban Design (Prof Christa Reicher) at the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University from 9/2002 to 2/2009. She finished her PhD on “Grocery Stores and Supermarkets. Ways of Urban Qualification” in 2008 and was awarded the dissertation award of TU Dortmund University. At the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu, Berlin) she worked as project manager and scientist from 11/2008 to 3/2011. Since 3/2011 she has been Head of the Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (ISR) at Berlin Institute of Technology. Since 4/2013 she is also director of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (ISR).