Research for the Urban Commons.

Urban Research Group at the
Georg Simmel Zentrum für Metropolenforschung Berlin

about us.

The URBAN RESEARCH GROUP is conducting interdisciplinary and applied urban research with a main focus on the URBAN COMMONS. We are researchers from different disciplinary and institutional backgrounds. The Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies is our platform.

Texts & Books on Urban Commons

Selected books of our members:

Related Research & Articles

Bieniok, M. (2019). Urban-Body-&-Mind-Sessions. Jahrestagung 2019, ZeE Verlag: Berlin. (in print)
Bieniok, M. & Bart, M. (2019). Freude, Erholung und Verbundenheit mit der Umwelt durch Urban-Body-&-Mind-Sessions – Ein Bericht aus der Praxis. Zeitschrift Umweltpsychologie, Heft 1 „Psychologie im Raum: Bildung, Arbeit, Gesundheit, Orientierung“, 77-90, Pabst Sience Publishers: Lengerich.
Bieniok, M. (2016). Mentale Repräsentation von urbanen Lieblingsplätzen, Empirische Evaluationsmethoden (20); Workshop 2015, 7-34, ZeE Verlag: Berlin.
Bieniok, M. (2014). Favorite urban places, Zeitschrift Umweltpsychologie, Heft 2 (35) „Aneignung, Teilhabe, Wohlbefinden“, 67-83, Pabst Sience Publishers: Lengerich.
Bieniok, M. (2014). Cutting edge research – Environment related human needs and urban planning. (Chapt. 10 – p. 350) In: S. Nolen-Hoeksema, B. L. Fredrickson, G. R. Loftus & C. Lutz (Eds.) Atkinson & Hilgard’s Introduction to Psychology, (16e), Wadsworth – Cengage Learning: Andover.
Bieniok, M., van der Meer, E. & Beyer, R. (2013). Metropolitan Features, Their Potential to Satisfy Environment-Related Needs, and Their Implementation in the Urban Planning of Berlin, Empirische Evaluationsmethoden (17); Workshop 2012, 5-24, ZeE Verlag: Berlin.
Kip, Markus und Douglas Young. 2020. „The Paradox of Preserving Modernism. Heritage Debates atAlexanderplatz.“ In: Socialist and Post-socialist Urbanisms. A Global Perspective. Lisa Drummond undDouglas Young, eds., 185-203. University of Toronto Press.
Kip, Markus und Christoph Sommer. 2019. „Commoning in New Tourism Areas. Co-performing eveningsocials at Admiralbrücke in Berlin-Kreuzberg“ InTourism and Everyday Life in the Contemporary City.Thomas Frisch, Christoph Sommer, Stoltenberg und Natalie Stors, eds., 211-231. Routledge.
Kip, Markus. 2017. The Ends of Union Solidarity: Undocumented Labour and German TradeUnions. Book Series Labor and Globalization. International Center for Developmentand Decent Work No. 10. Hampp Verlag.
Cyrus, Norbert und Markus Kip. 2015. „Arbeitsrechte mobilisieren ohne Aufenthaltsstatus.Von faktischer Rechtlosigkeit zur Veränderung geltenden Rechts?“ Industrielle Beziehungen 22 (1): 33-50.
Dellenbaugh, Mary, Markus Kip, Majken Bieniok, Agnes Müller und Martin Schwegmann, Eds. 2015.
Urban Commons. Moving Beyond State and Market. Bauwelt Fundamente No. 154. Birkhäuser / DeGruyter.
Kip, Markus und Wladimir Sgibnev, Eds. 2014 / 2015. Double Issue „Modernism and the(Post-)Socialist City“, Europa Regional 22 (1-2)
Kip, Markus, Alan Bourke und Tia Dafnos, Hg. 2011. Lumpencity. Discourses of Marginality– Marginalizing Discourses. Red Quill Books