Who are the people who live in cities and still own a car? Why are mainly men using e-scooters? Which are the neighbourhoods where new cycle lanes and pedestrian areas are built, who fights these changes and who benefits from them? And why do these questions matter for a socially just transformation towards low-carbon urban mobilities? To answer these and other questions, we analyse how urban mobility is interconnected with social and spatial configurations.
Research
Our team is very excited about the new PhD researcher, who will be funded by the Dr Hartwig Blume Foundation and GRACE to support interdisciplinary research into pressing environmental problems. Candidate Ke Lu impressed the jury with her achievements to date and her ambitious PhD-research project "Navigating Trade-offs in Green Renovation for Areas Vulnerable to Green Gentrification: Exploring the Future Transformation of Green Infrastructure in Urban Communities".
The Institute welcomes Franziska Meinherz and her team for the winter semester 2024/25! The new working group strengthens human geography and examines mobility in the city and surrounding areas with a view to the challenges of the mobility transition and how these are related to social and spatial structures.