Conflicts in Urban Future-Making: Governance, Institutions, and Transformative Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837674675)

Monika Grubbauer is a professor in history and theory of the city at HafenCity Universität Hamburg. She teaches historical and theoretical foundations in urban planning and urban design and is the spokesperson of the DFGfunded research training group Urban FutureMaking, established in 2022 and jointly organized by the three Hamburg universities. Her research focuses on urban development politics, housing and urban policy, and knowledge practices in architecture and planning. Alessandra Manganelli is an urban studies scholar working on socioecological transformations in contemporary cities. Her doctoral research (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Toronto Metropolitan University) has focused on the hybrid governance of urban food movements in Europe and North America. As a postdoctoral researcher at HafenCity Universität Hamburg, her research deals with urban experimentation, urban environmental governance, and socioecological justice. Louis Volont explores the modern metropolis through a culturalsociological lens and is a postdoctoral researcher in sociology at the HafenCity Universität Hamburg. He was previously a Fulbright Fellow at the MIT program in Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT), where he collaborated on the Choreographing the City project. His work looks at the cultural, temporal, and moral dimensions of urban life.