Cornelia Roboger
Research assistant & PhD student
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Office: GB III, Room 3.219
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Cornelia is pursuing her PhD within the SUBDENSE project, exploring the interests and agency of planners and landowners in suburban densification.
General research interests:
- land policy instruments and strategies
- the role of private property rights in planning and land policy
- transparency of land ownership
Cornelia is involved in teaching, including the master's seminar on the densification of single-family housing areas and the master's colloquium on land and housing.
She is also available to supervise bachelor's and master's theses related to her research interests.
12.02.2025: "Understanding the role of private landowner's interest and agency in suburban densification" - Presentation at the Dortmund Conference (DOKORP) at the TU Dortmund University
20.03.2024: "Municipal strategies of suburban densification: Balancing planning objectives and private property rights" - Presentation at the Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) conference at the Technical University of Munich
23.01.2024 - 25.01.2024: Co-organisation of a workshop on "Transparency of land ownership in Europe" in Berlin
03.05.2023: "The land value tax: A land policy instrument for densification" - Presentation at the Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) conference at the University of Michigan
13.03.2023 : "Understanding polyrationalities of space, actors, and policies on suburban densification" - Presentation at the workshop Governance & Densification at ETH Zurich
Hartmann, Thomas; Roboger, Cornelia; Eisenhut, Brendan; Novak, Jana (2024). Land ownership transparency: A comparison of seven European countries. BBSR-Online-Publikation. https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/publications/OnlinePublications/2024/bbsr-online-95-2024.html
Roboger, Cornelia (2023). The taxing implementation of densification: The missed opportunity of the German land value tax. Raumforschung Und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning. https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.1721
2023-today - PhD student at SUBDENSE project
2020-2022 - MSc Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University
2016-2020 - BSc Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University
Since 2023:
Member of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR)