Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg has been Professor of Geographical Urban Research at the Institute of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt\/Main since 2006, where she also acted as spokesperson for the teaching and research network “European Urban and Regional Development”. In addition to the DFG Research Training Group “Habitual Change”, she is also a member of the DFG Research Training Group “Organizing Architectures”. She is a permanent member of the Urban Planning Advisory Board of the City of Frankfurt and was a member of the expert commission on the Berlin referendum “Socialization of large housing companies” from April 2022 to June 2023. Susanne Heeg is a member of the <\/a>Latin America Network (PluriSoLA)<\/a> at Goethe University Frankfurt\/Main.<\/p>\n\n Heeg has held international research fellowships in Mexico, Toronto, Boston, and Cape Town. Her academic career began at the University of Hamburg, where she habilitated in 2006 on property-led urban development in Boston. From 1995 to 2000, she was a Research Associate at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). She studied sociology at the Goethe Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt. From September 2023 to July 2024, she was a fellow in the \u201cReclaiming Common Wealth\u201d program at THE NEW INSTITUTE. <\/p>\n\n Prof. Heeg\u2019s research explores cities as focal points of societal conflicts and as local nodes in the network of global dynamics. She investigates the conditions and factors in the production of built environments, particularly focusing on how participation in cities is negotiated through material-physical conditions. Additionally, she examines the power and actor constellations influencing urban development and the processes that make the development of built environments more transparent and calculable. <\/p>\n\nResearch focus<\/h2>\n\n
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