Lehrer, Ute
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
lic. phil. (History of Art and Architecture, Sociology, Economic and Social History) Zurich, PhD (Urban Planning) UCLA
Email (for graduate studies): fesgpd@yorku.ca
Email (for research): lehrer@yorku.ca
Areas of Academic Interest
- Cities and Globalization;
- Economic Restructuring and Urban Form;
- Political Economy of the Built Environment;
- Theory and History of Planning, Urban Design and Architecture;
- Built Environment, Ethnicity and Immigration to Urban Area.
Major research projects
- “Urban Images, public space and the growth of private interests in Toronto” SSHRC funded research project (2005-2008)
Other positions/affiliations
Select prizes and awards
- American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), "Towards a Smart Growth Master Plan: Assessment and Recommendations for the Town of Porter" (2004)
- Western New York Section American Planning Association "Towards a Smart Growth Master Plan: Assessment and Recommendations for the Town of Porter" (2003)
- New York Upstate Chapter American Planning Association, “Towards a Smart Growth Master Plan: Assessment and Recommendations for the Town of Porter” (2003)
- UCLA, Latin American Center and the Center for International Business Education and Research Mobility Fellowship (1998-9)
- UCLA, Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (1997-8)
- UCLA, Department of Urban Planning Departmental Fellowship (1996-7)
- UCLA, Chancellor Fellowship (1993-6)
- First prize for poster design, national arts competition; Helvetas (1977)
Select publications
Chapters in books
2008 "Urban Renaissance and Resistance in Toronto", In: L. Porter and K. Shaw. Whose Urban Renaissance? An international comparison of policy drivers and responses to urban regeneration strategies. London: Routledge, 147-156.
2006 “Re-placing Canadian Cities: The Challenge of Landscapes of ‘Desire’ and ‘Despair’” In: T. Bunting and P. Filion (eds.) The Canadian City in Transition, 3rd edition, Oxford Press, 438-449.
2006 “From Possible Urban Worlds to the Contested Metropolis: Urban Research and Activism in the Age of Neoliberalism." In: H. Leitner, J. Peck and E. Sheppard (eds.) Contested Urban Futures, Guilford Press, 291-310, (with R. Keil).
2006 “Willing the Global City: Berlin’s Cultural Strategies of Interurban Competition After 1989” In: N. Brenner and R. Keil (eds.), The Global City Reader, Routledge, 332-338.
2005 “The Secret Lives of Toilets: A public discourse on 'private' space in the city” In: A. Wilcox (ed.) uTOpia Toronto: Coach House Books, 194-203. (with D. Cowen and A. Winkler)
2000 "Reality or Image? Place Selling at Potsdamer Platz," In: International Network for Urban Research and Action (ed.), The Contested Metropolis: Six Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Basel, Berlin Boston: Birkhäuser, 44-52.
2004 “Wo ist die Stadt in der Planungstheorie? Ein Plädoyer für die Stadt in der Stadtplanung,” In: U. Altrock, S. Güntner, S. Huning and D. Peters (eds.). Perspektiven der Planungstheorie. Berlin: Leue Verlag, 113-121. (“Where is the city in planning theory? Arguing for the city in urban planning.)
2003 "Architekturkritik als öffentlicher Diskurs," In: Conrads, Führ and Gänshirt (eds.), Zur Sprache bringen: Kritik der Architekturkritik, Münster: Wachsmann, 213-219. (“Architecture as public discourse”)
2000 “Zitadelle Innenstadt: Bilderproduktion und Potsdamer Platz.” In: A. Scharenberg (ed.) Berlin: Global City oder Konkursmasse? Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag, 95-110. (Citadel Inner City: Image Production and Potsdamer Platz)
1998 "Is There Still Room for Public Space? Global Cities and the Privatization of the Public Realm." In: International Network for Urban Research and Action (ed.), Possible Urban Worlds, Basel, Boston: Birkhaeuser, 200-207.
1998 "Urban Policy Responses to Foreign In-Migration: The Case of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany," In: J. Friedmann and M.Douglass (eds.), Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society, London: John Wiley and Sons, 67-90. (with J. Friedman
Articles in refereed journals
2009 "Condominium development and gentrification" Canadian Planning and Policy 18(1)82-103 (with T. Wieditz)
2009 "Gentrification and the Loss of Employment Lands: Toronto’s Studio District" Critical Planning, 138-160 (with T. Wieditz)
2008 “Old Mega-projects Newly Packaged? Waterfront Redevelopment in Toronto”, Special issue on Megaprojects, edited by S. Fainstein and F. Orueta. International Journal for Urban and Regional Research 32(4) 786-803. (with J. Laidley).
2006 “Public or private? The Pope Squat and Housing Struggles in Toronto”, A. Aguirre, E. Reese, and V. Eick (guest editors) “Privatization and Resistance - Contesting Neoliberal Globalization” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order. Vol. 33, issue 3 (with A. Winkler)
2005 "The Spectacularization of the Building Process: Berlin, Potsdamer Platz,” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Fall/Winter, 26 (3/4) 383-404.
2003 “Architecture Critique as Public Discourse,” Wolkenkuckucksheim: International Journal of Architectural Theory, 8 (2);
1999 “Mike Davis’ L.A. Story: Visions of Los Angeles’ Other Futures,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 39, 45-51. (with R. Keil)
1999 "Case + Study = Case Study? Case Study Approach Used at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin," Critical Planning, Spring, 36-50.
1997 "Migration, Lokalität und Zivilgesellschaft: Immigrationspolitik in Los Angeles,” Leviathan, special topic issue, "Immigration and Urban Development," H. Häussermann and I. Oswald (eds.), 427-445. (Migration, Locality and Civil Society: Immigration Politics in Los Angeles) (with J. Friedmann)
1997 "Urban Policy Responses to Foreign In-Migration: The Case of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany," Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA), Winter, 61-78. (with J. Friedmann)
1996 "New (Sub)Urbanism: Countersprawl or Repackaging the Product," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 7 (26) 49-64. (With R. Milgrom)
1994 "The Image of the Periphery: The Architecture of FlexSpace," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 12 (2), 187-205.
1991 "Westway - No Way! Das Scheitern von Stadtentwicklung wegen Autobahnbau in New York City," DISP (Dokumente und Informationen zur Schweizerischen Planung), 106, 37-42. ("Westway - No Way! The Failure of Urban Development through Highway Construction in New York City")
1988 "Ein Dreieck - fünf Lösungen: Wettbewerbsdiskussion anhand der Wohnüberbauung Selnau, Zürich," archithese, February, 56-63. (A triangle - five solutions: urban design competition for community housing in Selnau, Zurich)
Books
1995 Capitales Fatales: Urbanisierung und Politik in den Finanzmetropolen Zürich und Frankfurt, Zürich: Rotpunkt-Verlag; 1995 (Capitales Fatales: Urbanization and Politics in the Financial Metropoles Zurich and Frankfurt), 400 pages (with H. Hitz, R. Keil, U. Lehrer, C. Schmid, K. Ronneberger, R. Wolff)
1988 Wandel und Handel der Kaserne: Die städtebaulichen Vorstellungen dargestellt an den Projekten für das Kasernenareal Zürich 1873 - 1988, Zürich: vdf, 1988 (Land use planning, urban design and urban history in an inner city zone of Zurich), 89 pages.
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