Education, Space and Urban Planning

Prof Dr phil Thomas Coelen did his doctorate in 2001 at the Department of Education at the University of Hamburg on Education and Municipal Public. On the Relationship between Youth Work and School in the Respect to a Spatial Identity Formation. Following a postdoctoral fellowship of the DFG research training group Youth Welfare in Change at the University of Bielefeld (11/2002---10/2004), he joined two professorships (University of Rostock and Siegen). His habilitation thesis entitled All-day Education: Foundations - Institutionalization - Research Perspectives he handed in at the Faculty of Education at the University of Bielefeld in 2005/2006. Since 09/2009 he is full professor of education with a focus on socialization, youth education and life course research at the University of Siegen. Dipl-Ing Anna Juliane Heinrich completed her studies in spatial planning at TU Dortmund University in 2011. Her studies were funded by a full scholarship. Her diploma thesis was awarded the second prize of NRW.BANK.Preis Housing and the City and  was published in 2013 by the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. Since 2011 she has been researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Berlin Institute of Technology. She is a phd candidate. The working title of her dissertation is Education and Urban Development - Educational Landscapes and their materialization in the built environment. Prof Dr-Ing Angela Million was researcher and lecturer at the Chair for Urban Design (Prof Christa Reicher) at the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University from 9/2002 to 2/2009. She finished her PhD on Grocery Stores and Supermarkets. Ways of Urban Qualification in 2008 and was awarded the dissertation award of TU Dortmund University. At the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu, Berlin) she worked as project manager and scientist from 11/2008 to 3/2011. Since 3/2011 she has been Head of the Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (ISR) at Berlin Institute of Technology. Since 4/2013 she is also director of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (ISR).