Carola Hein, Curriculum 990815 - Bryn Mawr College

CURRICULUM VITAE (AS OF: JANUARY 24, 2008)
Carola Hein
Professional address
Associate Professor
Program in Growth and Structure of Cities
Bryn Mawr College
101, N. Merion
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
Tel: 1-610-526-5045
Fax: 1-610-526-7955
E-Mail: chein@brynmawr.edu
Education
5/1995 Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HfbK) Doctoral Dissertation:―The Capital
City of Europe‖ (Doktor-Ingenieurin)
5/1990 Hochschule für bildende Künste (HfbK), Hamburg. Diploma thesis: Capital City Berlin‖
(Diplom-Ingenieurin)
9/1987 Institut Supérieur d'Architecture de l'État (ISAE) La Cambre, Brussels; Diploma thesis
"The implantation of the European Community in Brussels, its history and actors"
(Architecte)
1982-95 Hochschule für bildende Künste (HfbK), Hamburg, Studies of architecture and urban
planning with a concentration on history and theory.
Teaching experience
9/2005- Associate Professor (tenured), Program in Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr
College
8/1999-8/2005 Assistant Professor, Program in Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr
College
4/1999-8/1999 Lecturer at Tokyo Science University, Tsukuba University and the Tomin College
of Toritsu University
4/1998-3/1999 Lecturer at Kogakuin University and Tokyo Science University
Community Activities
2007 Faculty participant in the Summer Mellon Program
2006/07 Acting chair, Program in Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr College
2006/07 Participant in the Peer-led chairs initiative
Spring 2005 Acting chair, Program in Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr College
2005 Member of CFO Search Committee and Mellon Minority Fellow Search Committee

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2000 - 2005 Member of Graduate Council
1/2004 Organized a gallery exhibition in in The Gallery of the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library
of Bryn Mawr College entitled “Cities in Cartography and Art: Maps from Japan and
„The Changing Landscape‟ by Jörg Müller; added Brussels, isometric map ARAU.”
2003 Participated in fund raising activities in New York City for Bryn Mawr College
2002 Participated in fund raising activities for Bryn Mawr College‟s “Challenging Women”
campaign
2002 Participated in fund raising activities in New York City for Bryn Mawr College
2001 Organized a colloquium on “The Rebuilding of Japan‟s Bombed Cities. A Comparative
Analysis” at Bryn Mawr College
1-2/2001 Organized an exhibition in The Gallery of the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library of Bryn
Mawr College entitled “Cities in Cartography and Art: Maps from Japan and „The
Changing City‟ by Jörg Müller”
1/2000 Organized an exhibition in The Gallery of the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library of Bryn
Mawr College entitled “Cities in Cartography and Art: Maps from Japan and „The
Changing City‟ by Jörg Müller”
2000 Organized symposium on “Japanese Cities and Architecture” at Bryn Mawr College
2000 Member of "Building Committee" at Bryn Mawr College
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
2007/08 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-04-
26/hein.shtml, http://www.gf.org/April052007.html, http://www.gf.org/newfellowfields.html)
2007 Research grant from the Humboldt Foundation as part of the GAFOH Program
2007 Faculty summer grant for research in Hamburg
2006 Faculty summer grant for research in Europe
2005 Seed grant from the Mellon Foundation for establishment of International Faculty Group
2004/05 Planning and Development Fellowship from the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy for
research on: Regional integration and land policies affecting the future development of
Tallinn, Warsaw, and Budapest
2004 Award: The Planning Perspectives Best Article Prize 2002-03 for "Maurice Rotival-French
Planning on a Global Scale"
2004 Faculty summer grant for research in Europe
2004 Research grant by the Brussels-Capital Region Government to investigate the urban location
and architectural expression of the European capital function
2004 Grant, Center for International Studies
2003 Seed grant for Trico Image Library of Japanese Culture and Bryn Mawr grant for
construction of tri-co Japanese studies website
2003 Faculty summer grant for editing
2003 Grant, Center for International Studies
2002 Japan Foundation grant for two month research in Japan (declined)
2002 Grant for one month research at Tokyo Meiji University (declined)
2001 Grant for comparative research from the Center for International Studies
2001 Faculty summer grant for research in Japan
2001 Grant by the Japan Foundation and the Center for Visual Culture for a symposium on
The Rebuilding of Japan´s Bombed Cities at Bryn Mawr College, held Oct 28th - 30th

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2000 Faculty summer grant for research in Europe
4/1997 - 8/1999 Visiting Researcher at Kogakuin University, Tokyo, with a fellowship from the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Alexander-von-Humboldt
Foundation
4/1995 -3/1997 Visiting Researcher at the Center for Urban Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan
University, Tokyo with a fellowship from the Ministry of Culture and Education,
(Mombusho) Japan, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) (German
Academic Exchange Service)
1992-94 Grant for the dissertation by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National
Foundation for Study Awards)
11/1991- 3/1992 Researcher for the Ministère de l'Equipement, du Logement, des Transports et de
la Mer, Bureau de la Recherche Architecturale, (Ministry for Infrastructure, Housing,
Transport and the Sea, Office of Architectural Research), France, research on "Visions
and Projects for a Capital City of Europe Prepared in France"
4/1991 - 6/1991 Travel grant by the Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk (German-French Youth
Foundation)
9/1986 - 8/1987 Studies at the Institut Supérieur d'Architecture de l'État (ISAE) La Cambre,
Brussels; with a fellowship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, (DAAD),
(German Academic Exchange Service)
1986 2nd prize in the student competition organized by the Bund Deutscher Architekten
(BDA) (Federation of German Architects)
PUBLICATIONS
A) Books
1. Laconte, Pierre, and Carola Hein (eds.) (2007): Brussels: Perspectives on a European Capital.
Brussels: Publication of the Foundation for the Urban Environment. 130pp.
2. Hein, Carola, and Philippe Pelletier (eds.) (2006): Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in
Japan. London: Routledge. 199pp.
3. Hein, Carola (ed.) (2006): Bruxelles l’Européene: Capitale de qui? Ville de qui?/ European
Brussels. Whose capital? Whose city? Brussels: Cahiers de la Cambre-Architecture n 5,
Brussels: La Lettre Volée, 2006. 313pp.
4. Hein, Carola (2004): The Capital of Europe. Architecture and Urban Planning for the European
Union. Westport (CT): Greenwood/Praeger. 316pp.
5. Hein, Carola, Jeffry Diefendorf, and Yorifusa Ishida (eds.) (2003): Rebuilding Urban Japan after
1945. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 274pp.
6. Hein, Carola (main editor and author) Hauptstadt Berlin, internationaler städtebaulicher
Ideenwettbewerb 1957/58. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1991. 300pp.
B) Refereed articles
1. (2006): “European Spatial Development, the Polycentric EU Capital, and Eastern Enlargement.”
Comparative European Politics 4, no 2: 253-271.
2. (2006): “In Search of Icons for a United Europe” CITY 10, no. 1 (2006): 71-89.

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3a. (2002):"Maurice Rotival: French Planning on a World-Scale (Part I)." Planning Perspectives
17, no. 3 (2002): 247-65. (The Planning Perspectives Best Article Prize 2002-03)
3b. (2002): "Maurice Rotival: French Planning on a World-Scale (Part II)." Planning Perspectives
17, no. 4 (2002): 325-44. (The Planning Perspectives Best Article Prize 2002-03)
4. (2001): "Toshikeikaku and Machizukuri in Japanese Urban Planning - the Reconstruction of
Inner City Neighborhoods in Kobe." Jahrbuch des DIJ (Deutsches Institut für
Japanstudien), no. 13 (2001): 221-52.
5. (2000): "Choosing a Site for the Capital of Europe." GeoJournal 51, no. 1/2 (2000): 83-97.
6. (2000): "Nishiyama Uzô and the Spread of Western Concepts in Japan." 10+1, no. 20 (2000):
143-148.
7. (1998): Hein, Carola, and Yorifusa Ishida. "Japanische Stadtplanung und ihre deutschen
Wurzeln." Die Alte Stadt, no. 3 (1998): 189-211.
8. (1996): "European Unification and the Planning Issue." Comprehensive Urban Studies, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, no. 59 (1996): 85-112.
C) Book chapters
1. (2006): "Brussels – Capital of Belgium and Europe." in David Gordon (ed.), Planning Twentieth
Century Capital Cities, London, New York: Routledge.
2. (2005): “La Gare Josaphat sur l'axe Bruxelles-Aéropoort: Perspectives pour un projet européen
et multifonctionel/Het Josaphatstation op de as Brussel-Luchthaven: Perspectieven voor en
Europees en Multifonctioneel Project.” in Pierre Laconte (ed.), L'aeroport, le train et la
ville: Le cas de Bruxelles est-il unique? De Luchthaven, de Tren en de Stad: is Brussel
enig?, Brussels: Fondation pour l'Environnenment Urbain, 62-70.
3. (2005): "Resilient Tokyo: Disaster and Transformation in the Japanese City." in Lawrence Vale
and Thomas Campanella (eds.), The Resilient City, New York: Oxford University Press.
4. (2004): "Bruxelles et les villes sièges de l‟Union européenne" in; Change. Brussels Capital of
Europe, Brussels: Prisme Editions, 118-122.
5. (2004): "Trauma und Stadtplanung. Der Wiederaufbau von Tokio und Hiroshima nach dem
Zweiten Weltkrieg." in Bettina Fraisl and Monika Stromberger (eds.), Stadt und
Trauma/City and Trauma. Annäherungen - Konzepte - Analysen, Würzburg: Königshausen
& Neumann, 105-22.
6. (2003): "Visionary Plans and Planners." in Nicolas Fiévé and Paul Waley (eds.) Japanese
Capitals in Historical Perspective, London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 309-46.
7. (2003): "The Transformation of Planning Ideas in Japan and Its Colonies." in Joe Nasr and
Mercedes Volait (eds.), Urbanism – Imported or Exported? Foreign Plans and Native
Aspirations, Chichester: Wiley, 51-82.
8. (2002): "Hiroshima. The Atomic Bomb and Kenzo Tange„s Hiroshima Peace Center." in Joan
Ockman (ed.) Out of Ground Zero. Case Studies in Urban Reinvention, New York,
Munich: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture Columbia
University, Prestel, 62-83.
9. (2000): "Architettura e urbanistica nello “Stile giapponese moderno.” in Gabriele Tagliaventi
(ed.) L’altra modernità 1900-2000, Savona: Dogma Edizioni, 150-55.
10. (2000): "Building the Capital of Germany - the Latest Destruction of Berlin?" in Norihiko
Fukui and Hidenobu Jinnai (eds.), Toshi no hakai to saisei/Destruction and Rebirth of
Urban Environment, Tokyo: Sagami Shobo, 95-117.
11. (1998): "Osaka." in Hamburgische Architektenkammer (ed.) Hamburger Architekturjahrbuch,
Hamburg: Junius, 124-135.

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12. (1997): "The Network of European Capitals." in Koos Bosma and Helma Hellinga (eds.),
Mastering the City, Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 1997, 32-41.
13. (1994): "Verso la metropoli verde", Housing, no. 6, 118-121.
14. (1993): "Planungen für die Haupt-und Weltstadt Berlin - ein Wettbewerb von 1957/58.” (1993)
in: Engel, Helmut und Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.) Hauptstadt Berlin. Wohin mit der Mitte?,
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 169-200.
15. (1991): "Aspekte der Stadtplanung in "Hauptstadt Berlin" Entwürfen von 1957/58.” (1991): in
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (ed.) Jahrbuch für Architektur, Frankfurt am Main: Vieweg,
45-58.
16. (1991): "City Nord - die Geschäftsstadt im Grünen." in Ulrich Höhns (ed.) (1991): Das
ungebaute Hamburg, Hamburg: Junius, 200-9.
D) Articles in magazines
1. (2004): Carola Hein in: "Comments from Foreign Professionals about Japanese City Planning"
City Planning Review, no.248. 9-12.
2. (2003): "Achtenvijftig/Fifty-eight." A+, no. 184, 64/93.
3. (2003): ""ICC (SIC)/CIC (SIC)." A+, no. 184, 68/94.
4. (2003): "Wedstrijd (SIC)." A+, no. 184, 72.
5. (2003): "Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown." Stadtbauwelt, no. 24, 66-67.
6. (2001): "La culture des concours en Allemagne et au Japon." A+, no. 167, 96-102.
7. (2000): "Japan - big-scale versus small-scale." Arch+, no. 151, 24-26.
8. (1999): "Een thuis voor de Europese democratie? Het Europees parlement in Straatsburg van
Architecture Studio/A home for European democracy? The European Parliament in
Strasbourg by Architecture Studio." Archis, no. 1, 52-59.
9. (1999): "Stadsplanning versus buurtvorming: kleinschalige stedebouw in Japan/Urban Planning
Versus Community Building: Small-scale urbanism in Japan." Archis, no. 5, 44-51.
10. (1999): "A Century of Architectural History." Archis, no. 12. 78-79.
11. (1998): "Shopping Schlund." AIT (Architektur, Innenarchitektur, Technischer Ausbau), no. 3,
41-51.
12. (1998): "Prestige en vermaak, Grands projets in Japan/Prestige and Diversion, Grand projects n
Japan." Archis, no. 2, 48-61.
13. (1997): "Planning the New Capital City Berlin/Shin toshi Berlin no sekkei keikaku." The
Comparative Urban History Review 16, no. 1. 12-15.
14. (1996): "Polizeistation in Chofu." Bauwelt 87, no. 39, 2250-2251.
15. (1996): "Vijf woningen: recent werk van Shigeru Ban/Five houses: recent work by Shigeru
Ban." Archis, no. 12, 54-65.
16. (1996): "Kobans in Tokio: Stadscultuur of modieuze accessoires?/Koban in Tokyo: urban
culture or trendy extras." Archis, no. 8, 26-33.
17. (1996): "Moderne Referenties aan de Japanse Traditie: nieuw museum van Tadao Ando in
Chikatsu Asuka/Modern References to Japanese Tradition: The New Museum by Tadao
Ando in Chikatsu Asuka." Archis, no. 2, 40-45.
18. (1996): "Archäologie-Zentrum am Mont Beuvray." Bauwelt, no. 9. 438-449.
19. (1995): "Kobe - acht Monate später." Bauwelt, no. 42/43, 2490-2493.
20. (1995): "Hoofdstad Europa: over de vestigingsproblematiek van de Europese Unie/A Capital
for Europe: Where to House the European Union." Archis, no. 11, 62-73.
21. (1995): "Schule im Block." Bauwelt 10, 478-483.

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22. (1994): "Mietbüros an der Porte d'Italie, Paris." Bauwelt, no. 39, 2190-2193.
23. (1994): "Architectuur in Hamburg: de lessen van Schumacher/Architecture in Hamburg:
Schumacher‟s Lessons (exhibition and catalogue review)." Archis, no. 8, 8-10.
24. (1994): "Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris," Bauwelt, no. 37, 2060-2065.
25. (1994): "Im Sog des Riesen (CCI)." Bauwelt, no. 16/17, 900-901.
26. (1994): "Die Stadt - eine Collage? Ausstellung “Kunst und Architektur in Europa” (exhibition
and catalogue review)." Stadtbauwelt, no. 12, 661-663.
27. (1994): "Opération Poste, 1500 Wohnungen für junge Postler in Paris." Bauwelt, no. 10, 468-
469.
28. (1994): "Brüssel - hovedstad i Europa." Arkitektnytt, no. 16, 304-05.
29. (1993): "Europa in Brüssel." Bauwelt (special issue) 84, no. 40-41, 2176-84
30. (1993): "Planer vor hovedstaden Berlin." Arkitektnytt, no. 14, 245-248.
31. (1991): "Berlijn: prijsvraag Potsdamer en Leipziger Platz." Archis, no. 1 (1992): 6-7.
32. (1991): "De toekomst van Berlijn," Archis, no. 3, 4-5.
33. (1990): "Der öffentliche Raum im "Hauptstadt Berlin" Wettbewerb" 1957/58." Baukultur, no.
6, p. 16-19.
E) Conference publications
1. (1996): "Berurin no shuto keikaku - marchimedi jidai no a nachronism (Planning the capital city
Berlin - an anachronism in the era of multimedia)." in Chiba University (ed.) Urban Crisis
and Survival of Cities - Towards a Transmodern City of Chiba, Chiba: Chiba University,
143-160.
F) Encyclopedia entries
1. (forthcoming) "Siedlung." in Christian Topalov, Laurent Coudroy de Lille, Jean-Charles Depaule et
Brigitte Marin (eds.), Trésor des mots de la ville, Paris, CNRS-Editions & Editions de la MSH.
2. (forthcoming) "Stadt." in Christian Topalov, Laurent Coudroy de Lille, Jean-Charles Depaule et
Brigitte Marin (eds.), Trésor des mots de la ville, Paris, CNRS-Editions & Editions de la MSH.
3. (2003): "Fumihiko Maki." in R. Stephen Sennott (ed.) Encyclopedia of 20th-Century
Architecture, New York: Routledge, 811-813.
4. (2003): "Kansai Airport." in R. Stephen Sennott (ed.) Encyclopedia of 20th-Century
Architecture, New York: Routledge, 727-729.
5. (2003): "Kyoto." in R. Stephen Sennott (ed.) Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture, New
York: Routledge, 739-740.
6. (2003): "Tokyo." in R. Stephen Sennott (ed.) Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture, New
York: Routledge, 1328-1332.
7. (2002): "Brussels." in Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (eds.), Encyclopedia of Urban
Cultures. Cities and Cultures around the World, Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, 430-38.
8. (2001): "Urban Planning: Competitions and Exhibitions." in N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes
(eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford: Elsevier
Science Ltd, Pergamon, 16047-51.
G) Book reviews

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1. (2006): "National Traditions and Foreign Influences in the Architecture and Urban Form of
China and Japan. (Review Essay)." The Journal of Urban History, 32 no 3, 491-497.
2. (2004) "Urban Reconstruction in Britain and Japan, 1945-55: Dreams, Plans, and Realities
(edited by Nick Tiratsoo, Junichi Hasegawa, Tony Mason, and Matsumura Takao)
(University of Luton Press, Luton, 2002)/ Housing in Postwar Japan: A Social History (by
Ann Waswo) (RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2002), (Book Review)." The Journal of Japanese
Studies 30 no 2, 481-486.
3. (2003): "The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka (By Jeffrey E.
Hanes) (Book Review)." The Journal of Asian Studies 62, no. 2 (2003): 614-15.
4. (2000): "Paola Di Biagi, La Carta d'Atene, (Book Review)." H-Urban, April 17. 2pp
5. (2000): "Barry Shelton, Learning from the Japanese City (Book Review)." Planning
Perspectives, no. 4, 400-402.
6. (1999): "Roman Cybriwsky, Tokyo: The Shogun´s City at the 21st Century, (Book Review)."
Planning Perspectives, no. 3, 325-326.
H) Web Publication
1. (2005) “Die internationale Perspektive: Hiroshima, Trauma und Stadtplanung. Der
Wiederaufbau von Tokio und Hiroshima nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg” Webiste of the
BPB, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung:
http://www.bpb.de/themen/B5RH75,0,0,Trauma_und_Stadtplanung.html. 4pp.
I) Dissertation
1. (1995) Hauptstadt Europa, Dissertation, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg. 405pp.
J) Unpublished Manuscripts:
1. (2005) “Regional Integration and Land Policies Affecting the Future Development of Tallinn,
Warsaw, and Budapest as Part of the Polycentric EU Headquarters‟ Network,” Research
paper Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. (http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pubdetail.asp?id=1104).
39pp.
2. (2004) “Bruxelles: siège majeur de l‟Union Européenne, Capitale de qui? Ville de qui?”
Research paper “Research in Brussels – 2003” for the Brussels Capital-Region government;
host institution; Institut Supérieur d’Architecture de la Communauté française (ISACF) La
Cambre. 44pp.
3. (1992): "Débats architecturaux et urbanistiques autour d'une création de capitale européenne:
Nice, Strasbourg, Paris; L'Europe: une dimension du projet urbain des années 1949-1992"
Forschungsarbeit für das Ministère de l'Équipement, du Logement, des Transports et de la
Mer, Bureau de la Recherche Architecturale, Paris, 104pp.
4. (1990): "Hauptstadt Berlin, internationaler städtebaulicher Ideenwettbewerb 1957/58."
Diplomarbeit an der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, 5/1990, 156pp.
5. Daschner-Jens, Eva, Katharina Glogau-Schlüter, Carola Hein, and Ulrich Hölscher-Bogumil
(1989): “Stadterneuerung in Havanna” in: Exkursionsbericht über eine Kubaexkursion der
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (Fachbereich Architektur) vom 23.9.88 bis zum
7.10.88. 11-29, 109pp.

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6. (1987): "L'implantation des Communautés Européennes à Bruxelles, son historique, ses
intervenants." Diploma thesis at the Institut Supérieur d'Architecture de l'Etat (ISAE), La
Cambre, 1987, 167pp.
Curatorial work
8-9/1994 Researcher, preparation of an outline for an exhibition on urban work planning in Berlin,
projected by the Fondation Roi Baudouin,Brussels
1-2/1994 Academic advisor to the exhibition ―Fritz Schumacher und seine Zeit‖, Hamburger
Deichtorhallen, May 20.- July 17, 1994, research done on the international models
which influenced Schumacher and choice of original drawings to be used in this context
in the exhibition
6/1990 - 2/1991 Initiator and curator for an exhibition on the international urban planning
competition Hauptstadt Berlin 1957/58 for the Berlinische Galerie in the Martin-
Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Editorial work
3-4/1991 Academic advisor for a special number of the Italian magazine Abitare work on Le città
anseatiche e il confine cancellato, n° 298 July/August 1991, assistant to the editor for
the conception of a preparatory trip through North Germany; accompanying the editor
during the trip; translator
6/1990 - 2/1991 Main editor and main catalogue author for an exhibition on the international urban
planning competition Hauptstadt Berlin 1957/58 for the Berlinische Galerie in the
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Educational activity
10/1998 Preparation for and leadership of a study trip for German architects through Japan
10/1997 Preparation for and leadership of a study trip for German architects through Japan
Professional activity
1983-89 Conservation and transformation of the Röperhof, a traditional farm building, protected
as an architectural monument into a local cultural center
1985 Architectural drawings of a traditional rural building the ScheuneMeyer, for the
Hamburger Denkmalschutzamt department of architectural monuments
Lectures given as an invited speaker
- on : Polycentricity in Europe and the development of Tallinn, Warsaw and Budapest
7/2007 Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin
- on: Brussels and the polycentric European capital
4/2006 Columbia City Seminar, New York
6/2005 Cercle Gaullois, Brussels

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6/2005 Bruxelles: siège majeur de l‟Union Européenne
Capitale de qui? Ville de qui? Presentation in Brussels at the colloquium "Perspectives
urbaines d‟une capitale européenne" June 28
- on: European capitals of culture
6/2007 Private Universität Witten Herdecke,
- on: Brussels and the EU presence
7/2007 HafenCity University, Hamburg
6/2005 Pour un deuxième pôle de développement européen sur l’axe ferroviaire Bruxelles
aéroport, Presentation in Brussels at the colloquium "Perspectives urbaines d‟une
capitale européenne" June 28
- on: Hiroshima: The atomic bomb and Kenzo Tange´s Peace Memorial
10/2003 Bryn Mawr, Visual Culture Seminar
3/2002 The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Spring 2002
Lecture Series, March 4
- on: Fires, Earthquakes, Modernization and Air Strikes--The Destuction and Revival of Japan´s Cities
5/2002 MIT, Boston, Massachusetts. Lecture Series "The Resilient City"
http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/content/resilientcity/
http://resilientcity.mit.edu
- on: Design Competitions
11/2001 Bryn Mawr, Visual Culture Seminar
- on: Various aspects of the life and work of Maurice Rotival in Europe Africa, North- and South-America
2/1995 Paris, Société Française des Architectes
4/1994 Miami, University of Miami, School of Architecture
3/1994 Brussels, Institut Supérieur d'Urbanisme et de Rénovation Urbaine
- on: Various aspects of planning the capital of the European Community
3/1999 Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College
3/1999 Miami, University of Miami, School of Architecture
12/1996 Tokyo, Science University
10/1996 Boston, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
2/1996 Tokyo, Center for Urban Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University
3/1995 Brussels, Institut Supérieur d’Architecture de l'Etat, La Cambre
2/1995 Brussels, Institut Supérieur d'Urbanisme et de Rénovation Urbaine
2/1995 Paris, Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Tolbiac
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on: Brussels: the multiple capital
7/2004 Dortmund, Fachgebiet Europäische Raumplanung, Universität Dortmund

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- on: Urban Planning in Japan
1/2007 Washington, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
9/2001 Delaware, University of Delaware
11/2000 Bryn Mawr, Visual Culture Seminar
10/1996 Brussels, Institut Supérieur d'Urbanisme et de Rénovation Urbaine
- on: History of the City
5/1999 Tsukuba, University of Tsukuba
4/1999 Tsukuba, University of Tsukuba
- on: Japanese Urban Planning and Its German Roots (with Prof.Yorifusa Ishida)
3/1998 Tokyo, Ostasiengesellschaft (OAG)
- on: Various aspects of historical and current plans for Berlin as capital city
9/1998 Tokyo, Society for the Promotion of Housing
4/1998 Tokyo, Science University
7/1997 Tokyo, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESC)
4/1997 Tokyo, Tokyo Study Group in Comparative Urban History
12/1996 Tokyo, Science University
1/1996 Tokyo, Center for Urban Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University,
3/1994 Stavanger und Bergen, Architectural Associations and University
2/1994 Paris, Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Tolbiac
5/1993 Oslo, Goethe-Institut
3/1993 Brussels, Institut Supérieur d'Urbanisme et de Rénovation Urbaine
1/1993 Miami, University of Miami, School of Architecture
4/1992 Oslo, Institutt for Arkeologi, Kunsthistorie og Numismatikk
3/1991 Rotterdam, Academie van Bouwkunst
- on: Hans Scharoun as an urbanist
10/1993 Berlin, Akademie der Künste
- on: The suburbs of Paris
12/1993 Hamburg, Hochschule für bildende Künste
Other
9/21/2005 Radio Interview: John Batchelor Show
Conference presentations and refereed papers
8/2008 Co-convener for the session “Port Cities: Social, Cultural, and Built Repositories of
Globalization and Networking in the 19th and 20th Century‖ European Association of
Urban Historians (EAUH) in Lyon.

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6/2007 Planning Cultures and the Quest for a Capital of Europe Paper for the conference “Planning
Cultures in Europe” organized by the HafenCity University Hamburg.
4/2007 “Machi (Neighborhood and Small Town): The foundation for Urban Transformation in
Contemporary Japan‖ Paper for the Small Cities Conference at the Center for Middletown
Studies, Ball State University, Muncie..
4/2007 Maurice Rotival and Edmund Bacon: Fighting a war for better cities in New Haven and
Philadelphia, 1940-70, Paper for the Society of Architectural Historians Conference (SAH)
in Pittsburgh.
12/2006 Brussels, Capital of Europe, in the Context of International Capitals. An Analysis of
Brussels’ Unique Capital Status as Part of a Polycentric Headquarters System in
Comparative Perspective. Paper for the Interuniversity & International Colloquium on
Brussels and Europe in Brussels.
10/2006 Participant in the Third German-American Frontiers of Humanities (GAFOH) meeting
organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and the American Philosophical Society
(APS) in Philadelphia.
8/2006 The polycentric EU capital and European city networks. Paper for the European Association
of Urban Historians (EAUH) in Stockholm.1/2006 Maurice Rotival—transnational
planning at the conjunction of personal, national and international forces. Paper for the
American Historical Association (AHA) meeting in Philadelphia.7/2005 The future
development of Tallinn, Warsaw, and Budapest as part of the polycentric EU headquarters'
network. Paper for the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) conference in
Vienna.
4/2005 The Polycentric EU Headquarters Network and the 2004 Enlargement. Paper for the
conference Rethinking European Spaces: Territory, Borders, Governance, Royal Holloway,
University of London (21.-22 April).
7/2004 Brussels, the headquarters city of the European Union – a new capital paradigm? Paper
given at the conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) in
Barcelona.
7/2004 Participation in Round Table – Transporting Planning: On Native Aspirations and the
Diffusion and Transformation of Models at the at the conference of the International
Planning History Society (IPHS) in Barcelona.
3/2004 The Emergence of a Polycentric Capital City in the European Union, paper given at the
American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting in Philadelphia.
8/2003 The European Union in Brussels paper given at the ACSP-AESOP (American Collegiate
Schools of Planning- Association of European Schools of Planning) Third joint congress
in Leuven.
11/2002 Rebuilding Japan's Bombed Cities, paper given at the conference of the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in Baltimore.
7/2002 Toshikeikaku and Machizukuri in Japanese Urban Planning, paper given at the
International Planning History Society (IPHS) conference in London
11/2001 Discussant for the panel Rethinking Metropolis: Localism, Globalism and
Europeanization of the Western European City at the conference of the American
Anthropological Association (AAA) in Washington D.C.
11/2001 Opening the Black Box: The Exchange of Planning Ideas Between Japanand the "West"
paper given at the conference of the Society of American City and Regional Planning
Historians (SACRPH) in Philadelphia.
10/2001 Organizer and chair of a symposium on The Rebuilding of Japan´s Bombed Cities at
Bryn Mawr College, paper given on Capital Reconstruction:Envisioning Tokyo and
Berlin.

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8/2001 Toshikeikaku and Machizukuri in Japanese Urban Planning: The Reconstruction of
Inner City Neighborhoods in Kobe, paper for the International Conference of Asia
Scholars (ICAS) in Berlin.
11/2000 Organizer and chair of a symposium on Japanese Cities and Architecture at Bryn Mawr
College, paper given on Planning Visionaries and Visions in Japan.
11/2000 Community Building in Japan - and the Lessons to be Learnt From It paper given at the
conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in Atlanta.
10/2000 Land Development for the Modern Metropolis, paper given at a symposium on
Architecture and Modern Japan, at Columbia University.
8/2000 Maurice Rotival and his "organic planning theory" paper given at the conference of the
European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) in Berlin.
8/2000 Maurice Rotival and the International Exchange of Planning Ideas, paper given at the
conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) in Helsinki.
8/2000 Co-convener with Professor Philippe Pelletier, University of Lyon 2, of the section 1
(Urban and Environmental Studies) of the conference of the European Association for
Japanese Studies (EAJS) in Lahti/Finland on the topic Autonomy and Decentralization -
Myth or Reality?
6/2000 Competition Cultures - Germany and Japan, presentation at the conference of the
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) in Miami.
12/1999 The Capital of Europe, presentation at a conference on capital cities in Amsterdam.
11/1999 The reality of the European capitals, paper given at the conference of the Society of
American City and Regional Planning Historians (SACRPH) in Washington.
6/1999 Paper given on Modern Architecture and the Japanese City, in the Symposium on the
History of Modern Japanese Architecture in a World Perspective in Tokyo (June 25th-
27th, 1999).
12/1998 Paper for the conference on the "Import of Planning Ideas" in Beirut on the topic of
"Japan and the Transformation of Planning Ideas."
11/1998 Co-organizer and co-chair with Prof. Yorifusa Ishida of a workshop on The rebuilding of
Japanese cities after World War II a comparative approach, Presentation of a paper on
Town planning visions in Germany and Japan - The rebuilding of Tokyo and Berlin after
W.W.II, working paper printed in handout at the Conference of the City Planning
Institute of Japan in Yamagata.
10/1998 Cóng ji ge zhí mín di chéng shi kàn riben chéng shi gui huà si xiãng de yãn biàn Japan
and the Transformation of Planning Ideas - some examples of colonial plans,
presentation at the Conference on Modern History of Chinese Architecture printed in:
Anthology of 98 International Conference on Modern History of Chinese Architecture,
Taiyuan, 5-8.10.1998.
7/1998 Organizer and chair of a session on the International Transmission of Planning Ideas
presentation of a paper on Japan and the Transformation of Planning Ideas - some
examples of colonial plans, at the conference of the International Planning History
Society in Sydney, paper printed the proceedings entitled 20th century urban planning
experience.
6/1998 The reconstruction of Tokyo after WWII, presentation at the conference of the
International Conference of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in Noordwijkerhout.
4/1998 Uzou Nishiyama - the "godfather" of Japanese housing and planning, presentation at the
conference of the Society of Architectural Historians in Los Angeles, abstract printed in
the proceedings.

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12/1997 Participation on invitation to the colloquium "City Words" in Paris, organised by the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the UNESCO, paper
presented together with Professor Yorifusa Ishida on Machi and Toshi - city divisions in
Japan.
8/1997 Planning Visions After World War II, Japanese Traditions and Western Influences,
presentation at the conference of the European Association of Japanese studies (EAJS)
in Budapest, summary printed in the Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese
Studies n 46, October 1997.
12/1996 Participation on invitation at the Chiba University Symposium on Urban Crisis and
Survival of Cities, presentation of a paper on Urban Planning of the Capital of
Germany: Berlin - Anachronism in the Age of New Media, paper printed in Japanese in
the conference proceedings.
10/1996 Visions et réalité de la capitale de l’Europe, presentation at the conference of the
International Planning History Society (IPHS) in Thessaloniki, printed in the
proceedings of the International Planning History Society entitled The Planning of
Capital Cities.
4/1995 French Planning Doctrine applied to Latin America, paper for the conference of the
Society for Architectural Historians (SAH) in Seattle.
4/1994 Maurice Rotival's Plans for Caracas, presentation at the conference of the Society for
Architectural Historians (SAH) in Philadelphia, abstract printed in the proceedings
10/1991 Participation on invitation to the colloquium Wohin mit der Mitte?, organized by the
Historische Kommission zu Berlin, contribution to the ensuing book publication.
Professional/Academic Affiliations since:
2008 Council for European Studies at Columbia University
2007 American Historical Association (AHA)
2007 Gesellschaft für Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierungsforschung ev. (GSU)
1997 Town Planning Institute of Japan
1994 Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH)
1994 International Planning History Society (IPHS)
1994 European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
1993 Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Editorial Board member:
Journal of Urban History
e-journal Brussels Studies
Service to the Profession:
Reviewer for numerous scientific journals and book publishers
Languages
German mother tongue
English fluently spoken, written and read

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French fluently spoken, written and read
Japanese fluently spoken and read, written
Italian spoken, written and read
Spanish spoken, written and read
Dutch fluently read and understood