Katharina Künzel
Research Assistant
Katharina recently completed her MSc Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University, while concurrently supporting the team at the Chair of Land Policy and Land Management as a research assistant, now preparing her PhD.
In the student project "Grund zum Wohnen" she already conducted research on the interests and motivations of landowners in relation to municipal strategies of densification. It is therefore not inconvenient that she will be collaborating in the SUBDENSE research project with project partners from Liverpool (UK), Paris (FR) and Dresden (DE) on the topic of suburban densification.
2023 - today Resarch assistant at Research Project SUBDENSE
2023 - 2024 MSc Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University with thesis: "Densifying Suburbia: Developers' initiative and planners' inertia?", analysing developers' behaviour in densifying suburban areas of Dortmund.
2021-2023 Student assistent at the Chairgroup of Land Policy and Land Management TU Dortmund University
2019-2023 BSc Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University with thesis: "Land gained? The impact of the Building Land Mobilization Act on municipal building land strategies of growing municipalities."
Künzel, Katharina; Korekt, Julius; Artmann, Niklas; Blankertz, Sören; Böhrk, Lilly; Render, Josephine (2024). Urban Densification: Understanding landowners' inertia in building on vacant lots. disP - The Planning Review, 60(2), 40-51. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2024.2424124.
Künzel, Katharina; Hengstermann, Andreas; Hartmann, Thomas (2024). Shaping the debate on land policies in Europe. Raumentwicklung – ARL-Journal für Wissenschaft und Praxis, 2024(1), 73.
Künzel, Katharina; Hengstermann, Andreas; Hartmann, Thomas (2023). International reflections on Munich’s land policy. ARL Nachrichten, 2023(2-3), 64-66.
Since 2023:
Organisational Assistant of ARL's International Working Group of Land Policy in Europe
Since 2023:
Member of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR)
04.05.2023: "Urban Densification: Understanding landowners‘ inertia in building on vacant lots" - Presentation at the Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) conference at the University of Michigan.