Publikationen

Edited volumes/ special issues

Grubbauer, M., Enne, L. and Langguth, H. (forthcoming) Collaborations in Urban Future-Making. Bielefeld: transcript.

Gao, X., Langguth, H., Lynam, A. and Misselwitz, P. (2020) Interfaces, URA Periodical, Issue 01. Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-10570

Besedovsky, N., Grafe, F.-J., Hilbrandt, H. and Langguth, H. (2019) Time as infrastructure: For an analysis of contemporary urbanization. Special issue, City 23, 4-5. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689726

Peer-reviewed articles

Langguth, H. (forthcoming) From the Inside Out: An Institutional Ethnography of Planning Practices in Large-Scale Green Transition Projects. In: Urban Planning.

Langguth, H. and Kębłowski, W. (forthcoming) Redefining the local state: How local stakeholders’ agency shapes China-led investments in Eastern Germany and Poland. In: Mateescu, O., Kalb D. and Gog S. (eds) Circuits of Capital: Infrastructure, Industry, and Social Reproduction in Eastern and Central Europe. London: Routledge.

Langguth, H. (2025) ‘Left-behind’ amid the ’boom’? Transnational green technology projects and reinforced peripheralisation in Eastern Germany, European Urban and Regional Studies 32(4), pp. 381-398. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764251329313

Langguth, H. (2025) Waiting, Acceleration, Stabilisation: Unpacking polychronic temporalities in the deployment of a Chinese green technology project in Eastern Germany. In: Apostolopoulou, A., Cheng, H., Silver, J. and Wiig, A. (eds) The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and political ecologies on the New Silk Road. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 93-112. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529240665.ch005

Langguth, H. (2024) Navigating conflictual cooperation: Temporary power coalitions in the planning and approval of large-scale Chinese green technology projects in Eastern Germany. In: Grubbauer, M., Manganelli, A. and Volont, L. (eds) Conflicts in urban future-making. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 229-256. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839474679-010

Besedovsky, N., Grafe, F.-J., Hilbrandt, H. and Langguth, H. (2019) Time as infrastructure: For an analysis of contemporary urbanization (Editorial introduction), In: City 23, 4-5, pp. 580-588. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689726

Huang, H., Guiqing, Y., Langguth, H. and Misselwitz, P. (2017) Post-Rural Urbanization and Rural Revitalization: Can China Learn from New Planning Approaches in Contemporary Germany? In: City Planning Review 11, pp. 111-119.

Book chapters

Gribat, N. and Langguth, H. (forthcoming) Zwischen Erwartungsdruck und Engagement: Zivilgesellschaftliche und sorgetragende Initiativen der Bestandsentwicklung in ländlichen Räumen Ostdeutschlands. In: Altrock, U., Bertram, G.F., Kunze, R., Kurth, D., Polivka, J., Schmitt, G. and Tribble, R. (eds) Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung 2026: Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement und Stadterneuerung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Langguth, H. (forthcoming) Land Ownership and Agricultural Production: Reassessing an Overlooked Relationship in the Case of Eastern Germany. In: Topalović, M., Couling, N. and Hahn, D. (eds) Agrarian Urbanisms. European Experiences.

Langguth, H. and Heeg, S. (2025) Finanzialisierung: ein Problem in der Stadt wie auf dem Land. In: Feichtner, I., Heeg, S., Klingenmeier, A., Langlotz, G. and Schubel, K. (eds) Stadt – Land – Boden: Verbindende Bodenpolitik zwischen Stadt und Land. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 45-56. (Open Access) 
doi.org/10.14361/9783839476123-005

Langguth, H. (2025) Peripheral centrality or resource periphery? Eastern Germany amidst the boom of transnational investment in green technologies. In: Phelps, N.A., Maginn, P.J. and Keil, R. (eds) Peripheral Centralities: Instances of Anticipatory Urbanism. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 169-182.

Langguth, H. (2024) Networked peripheries: China‘s green energy frontiers and urban-rural reconfiguration in peripheral Europe. In: Hagemann, A., Lynam, A., Xiao, G., Wende, W., Fan, L., Langner, S., Frölich-Kulik, M., Henneke, L. and Pappert, L. (eds) Urban-Rural Assembly: A Handbook for Co-visioning Sustainable Urban-Rural Development. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 74-81.

Langguth, H. and Sietchiping, R. (2023) Lokal verankert, global vernetzt: Die transformative Kraft einer territorialen Stadt-Land Governance. In: IBA Thüringen, Faber, K. (eds) StadtLand Perspektiven. Für eine neue Raumkultur. Weimar: M BOOKS, pp. 157-166.

Langguth, H. (2022) Planetare Kleinstadt: Perspektiven für eine multiskalare und nicht-stadtzentrierte Kleinstadtforschung. In: Gribat, N., Ülker, B., Weidner, S., Weyrauch, B. and Ribbeck-Lampel, J. (eds) Interdisziplinäre Kleinstadtforschung. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 51-70. (Open Access) 
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839465080-004

Langguth, H. (2018) Zwischen Entfremdung und Resonanz: Anmerkungen zur Grundlage kooperativer Formen rurbaner Landschaftsentwicklung am Beispiel der alpinen Region Vallagarina. In: Langner, S. and Frölich-Kulik, M. (eds) Rurbane Landschaften, Perspektiven des Ruralen in einer urbanisierten Welt. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 341–60 (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839444283-021

Non-peer reviewed articles/ public scholarship (Selection)

Nettelbladt, G., Langguth, H. and Gribat, N. (forthcoming) Postfossiler Extraktivismus in umkämpften Zeiten: Neue Perspektiven für die Stadtforschung (Debatte). In: sub\urban.zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung.

Langguth, H. (2023) From future anticipation to deep-time thinking. In: Chang, R.A. and Iuliis, M. (eds) TimeOut@WhatNext. Podcast series, Planung Neu Denken (pnd)/ Rethinking planning, Chair of Planning Theory and Urban Development, RWTH Aachen University. https://www.pnd-what-next.de/podcasts/from-future-anticipation-to-deep-time-thinking/

Langguth, H. (2021) Shifting Grounds: Chinese Corporate Investments in Rural Thuringia and the Expanded Reproduction of Capital after Western Hegemony. In: trans 38 (Reproduction). Zürich: gta-Verlag, pp. 107-112.

Team Dis+Ko, Langguth, H. and Pawlicki, N. (2019) RE:EDEN. Neue Denk- und Handlungsräume. In: re:form e. V. (ed) Re:Eden Neue Blicke auf die älteste Reformsiedlung Deutschlands. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 124-127.

Elzenbaumer, B., Franz, F. and Langguth, H. (2017) Post-Rural Futures in an Urbanising World? Re-Approaching Decentralised Urbanism in Alpine Regions through the Lens of Community Economies. In: MONU 26 (Decentralised Urbanism), pp. 114-121.

Bader, M., Talevi, R., Bedir, M., Elzenbaumer, B., Franz, F. and Langguth, H. (2017) Practices of Commoning. In: Aßmann K. et al. (eds) Explorations in Urban Practice - Urban School Ruhr Series. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona.

Gribat, N., Langguth, H. and Schulze, M. (2015) ’Make City’ in Times of an ’Absolute Present’? Exploring alternative urban practices at Ostkreuz, Berlin. In: MONU 23 (Participatory Urbanism), pp. 49-56.

Gribat, N., Langguth, H. and Schulze, M. (2015) ‘Make-Shift-Urbanismus‘ in den Zeiten einer ‘Absoluten Gegenwart‘? Auf den Spuren städtischer Praktiken um das Ostkreuz in Berlin. In: suburban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 3, pp. 111-124. (Open Access) https://zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/issue/view/31

(Selection)

(2025) Transforming Peripheries: Extractivist speculations between hope and disillusions amidst green transitions in Europe’s peripheries. Research Workshop, Schloss Lübbenau (Brandenburg), DE (Nov 27-28). (with Nina Gribat, Gala Nettelbladt)

(2025) Urban future-making: Situating agency within the built environment. International Conference of DFG-funded RTG 2725 ‘Urban future-making’, HafenCity Universität (HCU) Hamburg, DE (May 5-6). (with Monika Grubbauer, Joachim Thiel, Louis Volont, Alessandra Manganelli, Lucas Pohl, Fabian Namberger)

(2025) Tactics in urban future-making. Panel session at International RTG 2725 Conference ‘Urban future-making: Situating agency within the built environment’, HafenCity Universität (HCU) Hamburg, DE (May 5-6). (with Alessandra Manganelli)

(2023) Global China and the (re-)making of Europe’s »inner peripheries«: The local effects and agencies of Chinese infrastructure investment in the EU’s green transition. Panel session at Annual DSA Conference (Development Studies Association) ‘Crisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking connection and agency for development’, University of Reading, UK (Jun 28-30). (with Maggie W.H. Leung)

(2020) Integrated Urban-Rural Planning and Governance: A Global Perspective. International Conference, Urban-Rural Assembly (URA) research project, Online & ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory Berlin (Sep 23), Eiermannbau Apolda (Sep 24). (with Philipp Misselwitz, Xiaoxue Gao)

(2020) Strategic Tools for Integrated Planning and Governance. Public Session at International Conference ‘Integrated Urban-Rural Planning and Governance: A Global Perspective’, Hybrid, Online & ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory Berlin (Sep 23), Eiermannbau Apolda (Sep 24). (with Xiaoxue Gao)

(2018) DIAGNOSE 1968/2018: Critical Perspectives on the Legacy of Reform and Revolt in Architecture, Planning and Urbanism. International Symposium, Technische Universität Berlin (Dec 13-15). (with Nina Gribat, Christian Haid, Philipp Misselwitz)

(2018) Contemporary Architectural and Urban Development in Berlin-Kreuzberg and the Legacy of 1968. City walk at 16th Annual NYLON Conference, jointly organised by NYLON PhD network members from New York City (NYU), London (LSE & Goldsmith‘s) and Berlin (Humboldt-Universität).

(2016) Time as Infrastructure. Preparatory workshop for a special issue with ‘City. Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action‘ held at the International NYLON Conference London at LSE London School of Economics and Political Science, UK (Mar 23). (with Natalia Besedovsky, Fritz-Julius Grafe, Hanna Hilbrandt)

(2016) Berlin’s Contemporary Urban Development in the Face of (Post)Democracy: The Case Park am Gleisdreieck. City walk at International Conference ‘Common Room – Architecture, Democracy and Emotions since 1945’ organised by Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin.

(2015) Stadträumliche und Architektonische Praktiken der Absoluten Gegenwart. Eine Spurensuch rund um das Ostkreuz. Stadtspaziergang, Event Series ‚Absolute Gegenwart‘ organised by Engagierte Wissenschaften e.V. in collaboration with Institut für Zukunft Leipzig, ://about blank, Berlin. (with Nina Gribat, Mario Schulze)

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(2025) Planning contestations and the evolving agency of local professionals: The case of large-scale Chinese green technology projects in Eastern German small towns. Raumwissenschaftliches Kolloquium ‘Zu viel des Wandels? Widersprüche und Aufbrüche in der sozial-ökologischen Transformation‘, Leibniz R – Räumliches Wissen für Gesellschaft und Umwelt, Berlin (DE).

(2025) Redefining the agency of the local state: Urban future-making around China-led investments in peripheral Eastern Germany and Poland. International conference ‘Urban future-making: Situating agency within the built environment’, HafenCity Universität Hamburg (DE). (with Wojciech Kębłowski)

(2024) Zwischen Erwartungsdruck und Engagement: Zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen der Bestandsentwicklung in ländlichen Räumen Ostdeutschlands. ‘Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement und Stadterneuerung‘, Jahrestagung, Institut für Europäische Urbanistik, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (DE). (with Nina Gribat)

(2024) Governing global China‘s green technology frontiers: Insights from Eastern Germany. Global China Seminar Series, The Open University (UK).

(2024) Zukunftsweisende Energieregion oder ewige Energiekolonie? Zur Rolle Ostdeutschlands in der Europäischen Energiewende. Symposium ‘Halle-Neustadt als Prisma der Transformation? Paradigmen und Realitäten der Transformationsgesellschaft’, Halle (DE).

(2023) Spatial Politics of Global Interdependencies, Workshop of the Research Group ‘Governance and Inclusive Development (GID)’, University of Amsterdam (NL). 

(2023) Chinese Investment in the EU’s Green Transition and Emerging Agency of Host State Actors. Workshop ’Global China from the ground-up’, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana (SI).

(2022) Same Same But Different: Chinese large-scale infrastructure investments and the (re-)making of peripheral centralities in Eastern Germany. Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series ‘Peripheral Centralities: Present and Future’, City Institute at York University Toronto (CA).

(2022) The Spatial Politics of Global Interdependencies: Case Studies from Eastern Germany. HCKF Forschungskolloquium, B-TU Cottbus-Senftenberg (DE).

(2021) Small Town Development in the globally interlinked web of Chinese Corporate Investments: The Case Arnstadt in Southern Thuringia, Germany. International Conference ‘Conceptualizing the »Belt and Road Initiative« and its Effects’, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto (CA).

(2021) Kleinstadtentwicklung im globalen Gefüge Chinesischer Direktinvestitionen: Das Fallbeispiel 
Arnstadt in Südthüringen. Interdisziplinäres Symposium zur Kleinstadtforschung ‘Klein(e)Stadt ganz groß?‘, B-TU Cottbus–Senftenberg (DE).

(2020) Urban-Rural Assembly, Integrated Urban-Rural Planning and Governance: A Global Perspective. International conference, BMBFTR-funded research project ‘Urban-Rural Assembly’ (URA), Hybrid, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory Berlin (DE). (with Philipp Misselwitz, Xiaoxue Gao, Ava Lynam)

(2019) Everyday Utopias. Kooperative Zukunftsgestaltung im Thüringer Wald. Symposium ‘Die Zukunft auf dem Land: Imaginationen und Narrationen futuristischer Entwicklungen‘, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg & Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Eiermannbau Apolda (DE).

(2019) Post-Rural Urbanities: A Comparative Study of (Innovative) Socio-Spatial Practices in Urbanised Hinterlands across Germany and China. Workshop ‘Planetary Urbanization and Architectural Research’, Manchester Urban Institute, The University of Manchester (UK).

(2018) Urban-Rural Assembly. Sino-German Workshop ‘The Interconnected City in Germany and China’, Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China (CCST), Technische Universität Berlin (DE).

(2018) Urban-Rural Assembly: Kooperative Formen post-ruraler Entwicklung im Kontext globaler Urbanisierungsprozesse. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Ländlicher Raum: ‘Konstruieren, Analysieren, Gestalten: Ländliche Räume zwischen Theorie, Empirie und Praxis‘, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel (DE).

(2017) Kooperative Formen post-ruraler (Re)Organisation: Zur Zukunft der alpinen Region Vallagarina im Kontext globaler Urbanisierungsprozesse. Symposium ‘Rurbane Landschaften – Perspektiven des Ruralen in einer urbanisierten Welt‘, Bauhaus Universität Weimar (DE).

(2015) Post-Rural Urbanization in Eastern Germany - The Case Study Thuringia. Huangyan Symposium ‘Rural Settlements and Sustainable Development’, Huangyan, Taizhou City (China), Organized by Department of Urban Development, Tongji University Shanghai (CN).