Uwe Altrock
Biographic Data
| ID | 6278745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uwe Altrock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uwe |
| FAMILY NAME | Altrock |
| SIGNATURE | ALTROCK U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kassel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5901-6272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From squatting to high-rise: Could urban regeneration projects redefine everyday life in Turkey
Urban regeneration projects in Turkey reshape not only the physical environment but also the social fabric, imposing different housing lifestyles on former informal settlement residents. This forced transition disrupts subsistence economies, social networks, and established daily practices, often requiring profound adaptation. This study examines these effects through the Yeni Mamak Urban Regeneration and Development Project (YMURDP) in Ankara, f…
Resistance to Being Listed Industrial Heritage? The Conflicts and Dilemma of Heritage-Making During Land Banking in Guangzhou
Amid rapid urban regeneration over the past decade, industrial heritage conservation in China has garnered increasing attention, focusing more on the reuse of listed buildings than on conflicts in the inscription process. This article examines the conflicts and dilemmas between urban redevelopment and industrial heritage conservation during the inscription process in China, through five case studies in Guangzhou. It aims to provide both an unders…
Laissez-Faire or Sensitive Policymaking: The Legacy of Creative Clusters on Brownfield Sites in Berlin
With his saying “Berlin—poor, but sexy!,” former Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit framed the motto for a decade of transition in which the German capital became a Mecca for artists, media industries, and creative people from all over the world. Building on a longstanding tradition of tolerating diversity and as a centre of high culture and bohemians, the city developed a new cultural-political identity from a deep transformation crisis after German…
Industrial Heritage and Cultural Clusters: More Than a Temporary Affair
The transformation of industrial heritage buildings into cultural clusters has emerged as a prominent topic of academic research in urban planning, urban studies, heritage conservation, and architecture. Cultural clusters, defined as geographically concentrated cultural activities and organisations, have become a key instrument in urban regeneration, fostering economic growth and cultural development. Despite the benefits that cultural clusters o…
Understanding experimental governance of urban regeneration from the perspective of social learning – the case of Kingway Brewery in Shenzhen
This study aims to examine the experimental governance of urban regeneration in China from the perspective of social learning, through an empirical study of a pilot project called Kingway Brewery in Shenzhen. Single-loop and double-loop learning have contributed to policy innovation, through converting tacit knowledge from experimental pilot projects into explicit and codified knowledge in policy-making. Problem and strategy framing incrementally…
The state role in the housing sector in Hamburg and Havana challenges and successes of the state's claim to control in different political and planning systems
Housing supply is a controversial topic across the globe. In Europe, for example, housing provision is fundamentally characterised by capitalist market economy. However, the intensity of state intervention differs significantly in the respective European countries. Germany is certainly one of the countries in which the state traditionally intervenes considerably in the housing market and attempts to control it through various measures. In additio…
Mobility Hubs: A Way Out of Car Dependency Through a New Multifunctional Housing Development
Today’s urban design of new quarters in the fringes of German metropolises shows a renaissance of the garage building as a cluster for car parking. In contrast to the past, parking garages are planned as multifunctional “mobility hubs.” Planners enrich them with new mobility and sharing options and incorporate sports or social infrastructure facilities on the roof and the ground floor, thus contributing to vibrant neighborhoods. In contrast to th…
“Reconstructionism”: A Strategy to Improve Outdated Attempts of Modernist Post-War Planning
Recently, Germany has seen a series of inner-city projects that tend to reconstruct pre-war buildings or ensembles lost in the Second World War after demolishing earlier attempts to redefine the place in which they had been located with the means of modernist architecture. While those modernist buildings are often seen as “eyesores” by ordinary citizens advocating their demolition, the newer reconstructionist projects are criticized heavily by ar…
Housing in Germany and the Rebirth of the High-Rise in Post-Modern Urban Design
High-rise buildings were a frequent design element in modernist urban planning and architecture. However, both the criticisms modernism faced and the negative experiences with large housing estates dating from that period led to post-modern designs that built strongly on traditional pre-modernist urban form. Despite the role of high-rise buildings in office areas, many brownfield and greenfield housing developments from the 1980s to the 2000s ref…
New (sub)urbanism? - How German cities try to create “urban” neighborhoods in their outskirts as a contribution to solving their recent housing crises
The paper explains the current state of greenfield development for housing in major German cities. The respective projects are a result of the ways metro regions are structured both administratively and physically, the resulting governance arena that is dominated by the core cities but characterized by a number of constraints that make large greenfield developments increasingly difficult, and the complex socioeconomic and cultural realities in re…
Localized place-making and the knowledge-based regeneration strategies – The case of Xiasha Village in Shenzhen
Windows Upon Planning History
Stadterneuerung und Armut: Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung 2016
Informality, urban governance and the state: Negotiations of space in Dhaka and the Pearl River Delta
This article analyses the production of urban space and the respective negotiation processes in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and the Pearl River Delta (China). It considers such processes to be significantly influenced by the political system and political culture of the two countries, manifested in a state ́s political stability, its development orientation and the possibilities for public participation in decision-making. Three forms of space production …
Struggling for an adaptive strategy? Discourse analysis of urban regeneration processes – A case study of Enning Road in Guangzhou City
Conceded informality. Scopes of informal urban restructuring in the Pearl River Delta
Wachsende Stadt
Wachsende Stadt: Leitbild -- Utopie -- Vision?
Wachsende Stadt: Leitbild, Utopie, Vision?
Struggling for an adaptive strategy? Discourse analysis of urban regeneration processes – A case study of Enning Road in Guangzhou City
Localized place-making and the knowledge-based regeneration strategies – The case of Xiasha Village in Shenzhen
Conceded informality. Scopes of informal urban restructuring in the Pearl River Delta
New (sub)urbanism? - How German cities try to create “urban” neighborhoods in their outskirts as a contribution to solving their recent housing crises
The paper explains the current state of greenfield development for housing in major German cities. The respective projects are a result of the ways metro regions are structured both administratively and physically, the resulting governance arena that is dominated by the core cities but characterized by a number of constraints that make large greenfield developments increasingly difficult, and the complex socioeconomic and cultural realities in re…
Informality, urban governance and the state: Negotiations of space in Dhaka and the Pearl River Delta
This article analyses the production of urban space and the respective negotiation processes in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and the Pearl River Delta (China). It considers such processes to be significantly influenced by the political system and political culture of the two countries, manifested in a state ́s political stability, its development orientation and the possibilities for public participation in decision-making. Three forms of space production …
The state role in the housing sector in Hamburg and Havana challenges and successes of the state's claim to control in different political and planning systems
Housing supply is a controversial topic across the globe. In Europe, for example, housing provision is fundamentally characterised by capitalist market economy. However, the intensity of state intervention differs significantly in the respective European countries. Germany is certainly one of the countries in which the state traditionally intervenes considerably in the housing market and attempts to control it through various measures. In additio…
Wachsende Stadt
Wachsende Stadt: Leitbild -- Utopie -- Vision?
Wachsende Stadt: Leitbild, Utopie, Vision?
Conceded informality. Scopes of informal urban restructuring in the Pearl River Delta
Informality, urban governance and the state: Negotiations of space in Dhaka and the Pearl River Delta
This article analyses the production of urban space and the respective negotiation processes in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and the Pearl River Delta (China). It considers such processes to be significantly influenced by the political system and political culture of the two countries, manifested in a state ́s political stability, its development orientation and the possibilities for public participation in decision-making. Three forms of space production …
Struggling for an adaptive strategy? Discourse analysis of urban regeneration processes – A case study of Enning Road in Guangzhou City
Stadterneuerung und Armut: Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung 2016
Windows Upon Planning History
Localized place-making and the knowledge-based regeneration strategies – The case of Xiasha Village in Shenzhen
Housing in Germany and the Rebirth of the High-Rise in Post-Modern Urban Design
High-rise buildings were a frequent design element in modernist urban planning and architecture. However, both the criticisms modernism faced and the negative experiences with large housing estates dating from that period led to post-modern designs that built strongly on traditional pre-modernist urban form. Despite the role of high-rise buildings in office areas, many brownfield and greenfield housing developments from the 1980s to the 2000s ref…
New (sub)urbanism? - How German cities try to create “urban” neighborhoods in their outskirts as a contribution to solving their recent housing crises
The paper explains the current state of greenfield development for housing in major German cities. The respective projects are a result of the ways metro regions are structured both administratively and physically, the resulting governance arena that is dominated by the core cities but characterized by a number of constraints that make large greenfield developments increasingly difficult, and the complex socioeconomic and cultural realities in re…
Mobility Hubs: A Way Out of Car Dependency Through a New Multifunctional Housing Development
Today’s urban design of new quarters in the fringes of German metropolises shows a renaissance of the garage building as a cluster for car parking. In contrast to the past, parking garages are planned as multifunctional “mobility hubs.” Planners enrich them with new mobility and sharing options and incorporate sports or social infrastructure facilities on the roof and the ground floor, thus contributing to vibrant neighborhoods. In contrast to th…
“Reconstructionism”: A Strategy to Improve Outdated Attempts of Modernist Post-War Planning
Recently, Germany has seen a series of inner-city projects that tend to reconstruct pre-war buildings or ensembles lost in the Second World War after demolishing earlier attempts to redefine the place in which they had been located with the means of modernist architecture. While those modernist buildings are often seen as “eyesores” by ordinary citizens advocating their demolition, the newer reconstructionist projects are criticized heavily by ar…
Resistance to Being Listed Industrial Heritage? The Conflicts and Dilemma of Heritage-Making During Land Banking in Guangzhou
Amid rapid urban regeneration over the past decade, industrial heritage conservation in China has garnered increasing attention, focusing more on the reuse of listed buildings than on conflicts in the inscription process. This article examines the conflicts and dilemmas between urban redevelopment and industrial heritage conservation during the inscription process in China, through five case studies in Guangzhou. It aims to provide both an unders…
Laissez-Faire or Sensitive Policymaking: The Legacy of Creative Clusters on Brownfield Sites in Berlin
With his saying “Berlin—poor, but sexy!,” former Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit framed the motto for a decade of transition in which the German capital became a Mecca for artists, media industries, and creative people from all over the world. Building on a longstanding tradition of tolerating diversity and as a centre of high culture and bohemians, the city developed a new cultural-political identity from a deep transformation crisis after German…
Industrial Heritage and Cultural Clusters: More Than a Temporary Affair
The transformation of industrial heritage buildings into cultural clusters has emerged as a prominent topic of academic research in urban planning, urban studies, heritage conservation, and architecture. Cultural clusters, defined as geographically concentrated cultural activities and organisations, have become a key instrument in urban regeneration, fostering economic growth and cultural development. Despite the benefits that cultural clusters o…
Understanding experimental governance of urban regeneration from the perspective of social learning – the case of Kingway Brewery in Shenzhen
This study aims to examine the experimental governance of urban regeneration in China from the perspective of social learning, through an empirical study of a pilot project called Kingway Brewery in Shenzhen. Single-loop and double-loop learning have contributed to policy innovation, through converting tacit knowledge from experimental pilot projects into explicit and codified knowledge in policy-making. Problem and strategy framing incrementally…
The state role in the housing sector in Hamburg and Havana challenges and successes of the state's claim to control in different political and planning systems
Housing supply is a controversial topic across the globe. In Europe, for example, housing provision is fundamentally characterised by capitalist market economy. However, the intensity of state intervention differs significantly in the respective European countries. Germany is certainly one of the countries in which the state traditionally intervenes considerably in the housing market and attempts to control it through various measures. In additio…
From squatting to high-rise: Could urban regeneration projects redefine everyday life in Turkey
Urban regeneration projects in Turkey reshape not only the physical environment but also the social fabric, imposing different housing lifestyles on former informal settlement residents. This forced transition disrupts subsistence economies, social networks, and established daily practices, often requiring profound adaptation. This study examines these effects through the Yeni Mamak Urban Regeneration and Development Project (YMURDP) in Ankara, f…
Political science (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Business (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)