Ideas for the productive city.

Context, process, future: Berlin’s community garden programme.

With U. Giseke and C. Mees

In A. Baier, C. Müller and K. Werner (eds.), Unterwegs in die Stadt der Zukunft: Urbane Gärten als Orte der Transformation. Transcript Verlag, pp. 225–240, 2024.

Urban gardening as an emerging field of planning?

From greened vacant lots to multiple horticultural uses in open-space planning.

PlanerIn 5/2020 (special issue Junge Stadtgestalter – Stadt begreifen, aneignen und gestalten), pp. 16–18, 2020.

Placemaking and urban gardening: Himmelbeet case study in Berlin.

Journal of Place Management and Development, Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp. 208–222, 2018.

The Urban Shop

A photographic essay through the urban realm.

In A. Besecke, J. Meier, R. Pätzold and S. Thomaier (eds.), Stadtökonomie – Blickwinkel und Perspektiven: Ein Gemischtwarenladen. TU Berlin University Press, pp. 93–108, 2017.

New urban agriculture

A theoretical framework and stakeholder analysis of the Himmelbeet initiative in Berlin-Wedding.

Working Papers of TU Berlin’s Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, published by TU Berlin University Press, 2016.

Urban gardening and urban agriculture are on everyone’s lips—in the most literal sense. Numerous projects have emerged around the world and in Germany, growing heritage vegetables and pesticide-free herbs alongside a renewed sense of neighbourhood cohesion. I accompanied and analysed one such community garden, from the initial idea through to its opening. The Himmelbeet case study examines the actors and obstacles involved, the principles guiding the project and the processes shaping the garden’s collaborative development. It also locates this new movement within urban theory: what do urban gardens mean for urban history, urban utopias and the divide between city and countryside?

Does gardening have a gender?

Gender aspects of urban community gardens.

In Die Ingenieurin 114 (special issue Gender Pro MINT – gender and diversity aspects in STEM), pp. 20–22, 2015.

Bottom-up transformation of Frunze35 in Kyiv

The role of NGOs for industrial heritage. With Andriy Makarenko.

In H. Oevermann and H. A. Mieg (eds.), Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation: Clash of Discourses. New York and London: Routledge.