Governing Urban Densification Toward Social Sustainability (eBook)

Jean-David Gerber is a Professor at the Institute of Geography of the University of Bern. His research interests lie in political processes of spatial development, property rights, affordable housing and social sustainability with a special emphasis on the commons and mechanisms of urban decommodification.Josje Bouwmeester is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on negotiations in planning and development processes. She is interested in how institutional arrangements, actor strategies, and planning techniques shape how policy ambitions are interpreted, negotiated, and translated into concrete development outcomes.Vera Götze is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Her research examines how planning institutions and upzoning policies shape housing affordability and tenure security for renters, drawing on comparative case studies and spatial analysis across Europe and the United States.Jessica Verheij is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne. Her research examines the role of spatial planning in producing socio-environmental inequalities, focusing particularly on how conflicts are politically negotiated in spatial development.Deniz Ay is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern. As an urban planning and policy scholar, her research examines how the governance of land, housing, and care shapes the conditions for social sustainability. Drawing on urban political ecology and social reproduction feminism, her comparative research on urban governance focuses on the condition of life-sustaining urban resources.Mathias Jehling leads the research group on "Urban Structure and Policy" at Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden, Germany. He holds a Venia Docendi for Urban Geography at University of Bern. His focus is on geographic information in the planning context. He works and teaches on the quantitative analysis of urban form and institutionalist approaches to planning and land policies.Thomas Hartmann is Professor of Land Policy and Land Management (www.landpolicy.de) at the Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University (Germany). His research focuses on strategies of land policy and climate adaptation. He researched and taught in the Netherlands, Austria, and Czechia, and he is the former President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (www.plpr-association.org).Stéphane Nahrath is full professor of political science at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), where he heads the 'Public Policy and Sustainability' Unit. His research, teaching and publications focus on ecological transition policies, spatial planning and land policies, the regulation of network industries, urban governance, and circular economy.