Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scales
German Research Foundation | Research Training Group
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher, Dr. Joachim Thiel, Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer (speaker), Prof. Dr. Annette Bögle, Prof. Dr. Paolo Fusi, Prof. Dr. Gesa Kapteina, Prof. Katharina Manderscheid (University of Hamburg),  Jun. Prof. Franziska Müller (University of Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Karsten Gertz (Technical University Hamburg)

Large-Scale Projects as Innovation Drivers in the Construction Industry
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Landesforschungsförderung | Anschubförderung, 2017-2020
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher (speaker), Dr. Joachim Thiel (coordinator), Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer, Prof. Dr. Annette Bögle (all HCU Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Cornelius Herstatt, Dr. Stephan Buse (TU Hamburg-Harburg)
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Smart cities: The Standardization of Cities? 
German Research Foundation, 2018-2021
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher, Dr. Joachim Thiel, Filipe Mello Rose
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Learning through Rare Events: Learning from the Past and Anticipating the Future: The Case of the London Olympics 2012
German Research Foundation, 2012-2013
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher, Dr. Joachim Thiel

Temporalization of Space (VERA)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2004-2007
Prof. Dr. Dieter Läpple (TUHH), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mückenberger, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Oßenbrügge (University of Hamburg)

Work Patterns in New Media
European Social Fund, 2001-2003
Prof. Dr. Dieter Läpple (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg - TUHH)

Knowledge Based Business Services and Metropolitan Regions – the Case of West German Advertising
Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, 1997-2001
PhD Project

The Internationalization of the Clothing Industry: Case Studies at the Interface between Germany and Portugal
European Union, HCM-Program, 1996-4/1997
Prof. Dr. Klaus Kunzmann (University of Dortmund), Prof. Dr. Jorge Gaspar (University of Lisbon)

2023, with G. Grabher, „Abolish, accept, apply: Coping with ignorance in project ecologies.“ In: Project Management Journal, OnlineFirst. (Link)

2022, Stadt als Standort – Stadt als Produkt. Zugänge zu einer (Sozio-)Ökonomie der Stadt. Habilitationsschrift an der HafenCity Universität Hamburg. (link to the habilitation dissertation) 

2022, with F. Mello Rose and G. Grabher, “Selective Inclusion: Civil Society Involvement in the Smart City Ecology of Amsterdam.” In: European Urban and Regional Studies 29(3): 369–382.

2022, with J. Dreher, „Star Architecture Projects and the Geographies of Innovation in the Construction Supply Chain: The Case of the Elbphilharmonie.“ In: European Planning Studies 30(1): 105-120.

2021, edited with V. Dimitrova and J. Ruge, Constructing Innovation. Large-Scale Projects as Innovation Drivers in the Construction Industry.  Perspectives in Metropolitan Research, No. 7. Berlin: Jovis-Verlag.

2020, „Digitale Stadt. Stadtentwicklung vom Labor zum Feldversuch“. In: Wüstenrot-Stiftung, ed., Bedingt planbar. Städtebau und Stadtentwicklung in Deutschland und Europa. Ludwigsburg: Wüstenrot-Stiftung, pp. 236-243.

2020, with G. Grabher, „Innovation und Pfadabhängigkeit. Selbst induzierte Schocks und ihre Konsequenzen“. In: I. Breckner, A. Göschel and U. Matthiesen, eds., Stadtsoziologie und Stadtentwicklung. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 255-765.

2017, „Nahendes Ende oder neuer Anfang? Die Bedeutung des Hamburger Nein für Olympische Spiele und ihre künftigen Austragungsstädte“. In: Förster, J., Hebel-Seeger, A., Horky, T., Schulke, H.-J., eds., Sport und Stadtentwicklung. Aachen: Meyer & Meyer, pp. 182-201. (link to the book)

2015, (with G. Grabher), Perspectives in Metropolitan Research: Self-Induced Shocks: Mega-Projects and Urban Development. Berlin: Jovis.

2015, (with G. Grabher, C. Engelbrecht), "Urban Mega-Projects as Self-Induced Shocks: Introduction to the Collection". In: Grabher, G., Thiel, J., eds., Perspectives in Metropolitan Research: Self-Induced Shocks: Mega-Projects and Urban Development. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 9-15.

2015, (with G. Grabher), "Mobilizing Action, Incorporating Doubt: London's Reflexive Strategy of Hosting the Olympic Games 2012". In: Grabher, G., Thiel, J., eds., Perspectives in Metropolitan Research: Self-Induced Shocks: Mega-Projects and Urban Development. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 99-117.

2015, "Creative Cities and the Reflexivity of the Urban Creative Economy". In: European Urban and Regional Studies: 1-14.

2015, (with G. Grabher), "Crossing Boundaries: Exploring the London Olympics 2012 as a Field-Configuring Event". In: Industry & Innovation 22(3): 229-249.

2015, (with G. Grabher), "Projects, People, Professions: Trajectories of Learning through a Mega-Event (the London 2012 Case)". In: Geoforum 65: 328-337.

2014, (with G. Grabher), "Coping with a Self-Induced Shock: The Heterarchic Organization of the London Olympic Games 2012". In: Social Sciences 3: 527–548. (download)

2011, "Hoffnungsträger Kreativität? Ambivalenzen einer Sozialökonomie der kreativen Stadt." In: Herrmann, H., Keller, C., Neef, R., Ruhne, R., eds., Die Besonderheit des Städtischen. Entwicklungslinien der Stadt(soziologie), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 105-123. [more information]

2010, (with D. Läpple, A. Soyka, H. Stohr), “Raum-Zeit-Politik als Stimulation von Stadtgesellschaft: Das Realexperiment in der Hamburger HafenCity“. In: Läpple, D., Mückenberger, U., Oßenbrügge, J., eds., Zeiten und Räume der Stadt – Theorie und Praxis. Leverkusen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp. 131-158.

2010, “Arbeitsmärkte als lokale Anker der Wissens- und Kreativökonomie – das Beispiel der deutschen Werbewirtschaft“. In: Roost, F, ed., Metropolen in der Wissensökonomie. Detmold: Verlag Dorothea Rohn.

2009, (with O. Ibert), “Situierte Analyse, dynamische Räumlichkeiten: Ausgangspunkte, Perspektiven und Potentiale einer Zeitgeographie der wissensbasierten Ökonomie’. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 59(4): 209-223.

2008, [printed 2010] “Lokale Dimensionen der Entgrenzung von Arbeit: ein arbeitsgeographischer Blick auf die Kultur- und Medienwirtschaft“. In: Geographische Zeitschrift, 96(1-2): 62-77.

2007, “Der räumliche Strukturwandel der (west-)deutschen Werbewirtschaft: Arbeitsmärkte als lokale Anker der Kreativökonomie?“. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 57(1): 31-45.

2005, Creativity and Space: Labour and the Restructuring of the German Advertising Industry. Aldershot: Ashgate.

2005, “Reading the Territorial Restructuring of Business Services as an Innovation Process – the Case of German Advertising”. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(3): 564-580.

2000, (with E. Brito Henriques), “The Cultural Economy of Cities: a Comparative Study of the Audiovisual Sector in Hamburg and Lisbon”. In: European Urban and Regional Studies, 7(3): 255-271.

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2022 | Habilitation, Social-Economic Urban and Regional Research | HafenCity University

since 7/2010 | Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Economics | HafenCity University

2006-2010 | Head of Strategic Development Unit | Presidential Office | HafenCity University

2008-2009 | Professor of Urban and Regional Economic Studies (on a fill-in basis) | HafenCity University

1997-2006 | Lecturer in Urban and Regional Economic Studies | Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg

2003 | PhD in Urban and Regional Economic Studies (with distinction) | Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg

1996-1997 | Human Capital and Mobility Fellow | University of Lisbon, Centre for Geographical Studies

1989-1996 | Dipl.-Ing. in Urban and Regional Planning | University of Dortmund