Cornelia Roboger

Cornelia is pursuing her PhD as part of the SUBDENSE project, exploring the interests and agency of planners and landowners in suburban densification.

Her research interests include:

• private property rights in planning and land policy
• land policy instruments and strategies
• transparency of land ownership

She is available to supervise bachelor’s and master’s theses connected to these topics.

12.06.2025: "Landowner-driven densification:Understanding motivations and regulatory influences in suburban densification" - Presentation at the European Urban Research Association (EURA) conference at the University of the West of England, Bristol

04.03.2025: "How planning policy and landowners’ agency shape small-scale densification in suburban areas" - Presentation at the Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) conference at Cardiff University

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
 

Roboger, Cornelia (2025). Municipal approaches to suburban densification: Understanding the role of planners’ interest and agency. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251379264

Künzel, Katharina; Roboger, Cornelia (2025). The 19th Annual Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR), Cardiff, Wales, 3–7 March 2025. Town Planning Review. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2025.19

Roboger, Cornelia (2025). The 7th Dortmund Conference on Spatial and Planning Research, 10–12 February 2025. Town Planning Review, 96(5), 601–606. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2025.22

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, 81(6), 636–647. 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)