Peter Herrle

Professor

For 17 years, Prof. em. Dr. Peter Herrle had been the head of the Habitat Unit. His research activities covered the fields of mega-urban regions, housing provision and housing arrangements, informal urban development, architecture and identity, urban governance (including the involvement of the civil society and NGOs in developing and transitioning countries) and the international civil society networks and their role in local housing processes.

He was able to offer a broad perspective on international architecture and planning in his teaching thanks to his engagement in numerous countries in the Middle East, Asia, South America and Africa. Study trips, international workshops and summer schools abroad extended his teaching in Berlin. Moreover, Prof. em. Herrle is the initiator for the Urban Design Master Program in cooperation with the Tongji University Shanghai (2005) and the Urban Management postgraduate master’s programme (2004) and thus shaped the teaching opportunities at the TU Berlin significantly. At Tongji University Shanghai, he has been a permanent Advisory Professor since 2002 and the head of the academic board for the international and interdisciplinary Urban Management programme for urban development practitioners. From 1996 to 2001, he was also the coordinator of the CUIDAD network supported under the EU ALFA programme. The network included partners from Lima, Mexico City, Athens, Sao Paulo and Rotterdam.

He is still actively engaging in teaching and research at the Habitat Unit by supervising research projects and doctoral theses.

Beyond his activities at the Habitat Unit, he has given advice through the OIKOS Human Settlement Research Group to institutions and has been a member of organisations such as the German International Development Cooperation GIZ, the World Bank, the Catalytic Fund of the Cities, Slum Dwellers International, Misereor. From 2008 to 2010, he was a member of the international advisory panel for the UNESCO chair in Sustainable Urban Development for Asia and the Pacific.

Advise on his research fields have also been given to governments such  as China, Yemen and Egypt. As an editor he has worked for the Habitat  International Series (LIT Publishers) since 2003 and as co-editor of the  Megacities and Global Change Series (Steiner Publishers) since 2008.

Reference

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