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).

This book examines a range of practical developments that are happening in education as conducted in urban settings across different scales. It contains insights that draw upon the fields of urban planning/urbanism, geography, architecture, education and pedagogy. It brings together current thinking and practical experience from German and international perspectives.

This discussion is organised in four segments: schools and the neighbourhood; education and the neighbourhood; education and the city and finally, education and the region. Contributors cover a wide range of contemporary and significant socio-political aspects of education over the last decade. They reinforce emergent thinking that space and its urban context are important dimensions of education.

This book also underscores the need for more research in the relationships between education and urban development itself. Current urban planning does not fully connect our understanding in education with what we know in the spatial and planning sciences. Accordingly, this release is an early attempt to bring together a growing body of integrated and interdisciplinary reflection on education theory and practice.