Professorship for Urban Planning

Profile

Prof. Dr. Detlef Kurth is a registered urban planner in the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects and a member of SRL and DASL. He obtained a diploma in urban and regional planning at the TU Berlin in 1992. From 1992-1997 he worked for Planergemeinschaft Dubach, Kohlbrenner Berlin and was responsible for urban development, urban design and urban renewal projects in Berlin-Brandenburg. 1997-2003 he was a research assistant at the Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund under Prof. Peter Zlonicky and Prof. Christa Reicher. There he taught and researched urban planning and urban renewal. In 2003, he completed his doctorate on urban renewal strategies for Berlin. From 2003-2017, he was Professor of Urban Development and Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. Since 2017, he has held the professorship at the Chair of Urban Planning at RPTU in the Department of Spatial and Environmental Planning.

 

Professional training

2003

Doctorate on urban renewal strategies at the Technical University of Dortmund.

1992

Degree in urban and regional planning as a graduate engineer, Technical University of Berlin

 

Professional career

Since 2017

University Professor of Urban Planning at RPTU, Department of Spatial and Environmental Planning

2003-2017

Professor of urban development and urban planning at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HfT)

1997-2003

Research assistant at the Faculty of Spatial Planning (Urban Planning, Prof. Peter Zlonicky, Prof. Christa Reicher), TU Dortmund.

1992-1997

Planning consortium Dubach, Kohlbrenner Berlin.

 

Teaching activity

Since 2017

Independent teaching as Professor of Urban Planning in the Bachelor's degree programs "Spatial Planning" and in the Master's degree program "Urban and Regional Development" at the Chair of Urban Planning at RPTU as well as supervision of student projects and theses (Bachelor and Master).

2003-2017

Independent teaching as professor for urban development and urban planning, as well as supervision of study projects and theses (Bachelor and Master) at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HfT)

 

Expert groups

  • Urban planning committee with the mayor of the city of Stuttgart

  • Advisory board for urban renewal Gelsenkirchen.

  • IBA 2027 Stuttgart Region, Planning and Building Forum

  • IBA 2027 Stuttgart Region, City of Fellbach expert group

  • Board of Trustees of the National Urban Development Policy

  • Monitoring group "Urban Agenda for the EU - Cultural Heritage Partnership" of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community

  • Expert group "Urban Development and Corona - Resilient Cities" of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community

  • Building Culture Advisory Board of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Municipal Affairs, Building and Gender Equality, North Rhine-Westphalia

Memberships

  • Chairman of the Association for Urban, Regional and State Planning(SRL).
  • German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning(DASL).
  • Expert committee on urban/spatial planning of the Accreditation Association for Architecture and Planning Degree Programs(ASAP).
  • Editor of the professional journal PlanerIn.
  • Co-editor of the Yearbook for Urban Renewal.

 

Research projects

Research and consulting projects in the fields of sustainable urban development, urban monument protection, energy-efficient neighborhoods, energy-efficient urban development, climate adaptation concepts, urban renewal strategies and center development.

 

Research projects (selection)

At the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Applied Research, Center for Sustainable Urban Development 2006 - 201

2015-2017: Urban Renewal Transfer Stuttgart - Wroclaw, with the City of Stuttgart, City of Wroclaw, Urban Renewal Society Wroclaw, funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation

2015-2017: Real-world laboratory energy-efficient campus HFT Stuttgart. Ministry of Science and Research BW. Interdisciplinary project under the direction of Prof. Dr. Eicker

2015-2017: What'SUB Stuttgart - temporary spaces for subculture. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Building. National urban development policy. With Prof. Dr. Simon-Philipp. Web: http://www.nationale-stadtentwicklungspolitik.de/NSP/SharedDocs/Projekte/NSPProjekte/Zivilgesellschaft/Stuttgart_What_sUB_Subkultur_erhalten.html

2014-2016: Climate adaptation strategies for the Stuttgart Region. Verband Region Stuttgart, Esslingen, Ludwigsburg. Federal Ministry for the Environment and Building. Web: http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Forschung/Projekte/Project110.html/en

2013-2014: Sustainable, energy-efficient district concept for the baroque inner-city district of the city of Ludwigsburg, BBSR model project "Building stock". Federal Ministry for the Environment and Building, with Prof. Dr. Eicker. Web: http://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/FP/ Weitere/EKF/ModellvorhabenGebaeudebestand/Modellvorhaben/MV15_Ludwigsburg.html

 

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Kurth, Detlef (2004): Strategies of preventive urban renewal. Further development of strategies of redevelopment, urban redevelopment and the social city into a concept of urban maintenance for Berlin (PhD). Dortmunder Beiträge zur Raumplanung 119, Institute for Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund

    Editor

    of anthologies (selection)
  • Since 2016 co-editor of the yearbook Stadterneuerung. Urban Renewal Working Group, Berlin
  • Kurth, Detlef; Simon-Philipp, Christina (ed.) (2017): What'SUB Stuttgart - a foray through temporary spaces for subculture. AV edition Stuttgart
  • Korbel, Josefine; Kurth, Detlef, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences/ Verband Region Stuttgart et. al. (eds.)(2016): Klima-Stadt-Wandel: Strategies and projects for climate adaptation in the Stuttgart Region. Verband Region Stuttgart 2016
  • Pietruschka, Dirk; Kurth, Detlef; Eicker, Ursula et al. (eds.) (2016): Energetic urban redevelopment. Energy master planning and heating networks for new neighborhoods in Ludwigsburg Grünbühl-Sonnenberg. Fraunhofer IRB Publishing House
  • Feldmann, Janine; Kurth, Detlef; Rommelfanger, Stefan (eds.)(2015): Socially Integrative City Gelsenkirchen. 20 years model city of integrated urban renewal. Klartext-Verlag Essen
  • Altrock, Uwe; Bodenschatz, Harald; Bohne, Rainer; Frinken, Matthias; Kegler, Harald; Kurth, Detlef; Polinna, Cordelia; Uttke; Angela (eds.)(2013): The grand plan. Current contributions to urban design. SRL publication series 56

 

Articles in anthologies and journals (selection)

  • Kurth, Detlef (2017): Albert Speer as an urban planner - a co-founder of the urban/spatial planning profession. In: PlanerIn 3/2017, p. 47
  • Kurth, Detlef (2017): Reflections on 10 years of the Leipzig Charter. In: Planner 3/2017, p. 47-48
  • Kurth, Detlef (2017): IBA Stuttgart Region ante Detroit. In: PlanerIn 3/2017, p. 35-37
  • Korbel, Josefine; Kurth, Detlef (2016): Climate adaptation as a task of urban development. New guiding principles and adaptation concepts using the example of the Stuttgart region. In: Spatial planning 2/2016, p. 9-15
  • Kurth, Detlef (2016): Sustainable planned city Ludwigsburg. Model city for integrated urban development and sustainability governance. In: City of Ludwigsburg (ed.): 10 years of sustainable urban development in Ludwigsburg
  • Kurth, Detlef; Preising, Tobias (2015): Training and professional field. In: Planner 6-2015. p. 3-5
  • Kurth, Detlef (2015): Renaissance of urban development planning. In: Bohne, Rainer; Frinken, Matthias; Kalepky, Jutta; Kurth, Detlef (eds.): Leitbilder. Contributions to urban development and urban planning. SRL publication series 57. Berlin p. 35-44.
  • Kurth, Detlef (2015): Ten years of the Gelsenkirchen Urban Renewal Advisory Board. In: Feldmann, Janine; Kurth, Detlef; Rommelfanger, Stefan (eds.): Socially Integrative City of Gelsenkirchen. 20 years model city of integrated urban renewal. Klartext-Verlag Essen 2015, p. 126-128
  • Bialk, Sylvia; Kurth, Detlef (2015): From urban monument protection to sustainable urban conservation - planning instruments for the careful energy-efficient renewal of building ensembles worthy of preservation. In: BBSR: Series of publications on urban monument protection. Bonn
  • Kurth, Detlef(2014): The sleeping metropolis of Stuttgart. In: Reference Project Magazine 10-2014. p. 25

All publications can be found here

 

Lectures (2017)

  • 17.09.2017 - Robert Bosch Foundation Stuttgart: Workshop "Focus on medium-sized cities"
  • 12.09.2017 - Scientific symposium "Protection against air pollutants and noise through urban planning", TU Kaiserslautern: Climate protection in conflict with mixed use and redensification
  • 11.07.2017 - AESOP Congress Lisbon: Facing climate change - adaptation planning and dialog strategies for resilient cities
  • 30.06.2017 - Conference Programmatics of urban renewal. University of Kassel: Perspectives for the urban development program
  • 10.05.2017 - Academy for Nature and Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg: Climate change and strategies for urban and spatial planning
  • 07.04.2017 - SRL partner conference of the National Urban Development Policy in Berlin: Theses on 10 years of the Leipzig Charter
  • 02.02.2017 - Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects/ University of Stuttgart: Congress Leitbilder 100 years after Weißenhof. Moderation of the plenum

You can find all presentations here

Prof. Dr. Detlef Kurth

Chair holder

contact

Pfaffenbergstraße 95/ Building 1

Room: 1-031

Phone: (0)631/205-4665

E-mail: detlef.kurth@ru.rptu.de