Apart from consulting, I also write about cities, communities and urban initiatives. As a blogger and urban journalist, I focus on methods of participation in urban planning as well as solutions journalism. I attended the Urban Journalism Academy at the Habitat III Conference in Quito as well as workshops at the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi in 2020. I also have experience in visual communication and copywriting. Get in touch with me at www.textsandthecity.org to hire me as a journalist or writer!
Here is a list of my publications on other platforms and here, you can read more blog articles on parCitypatory to get an idea of my style.
2020
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- Topos Magazine| “Mexico: Using Superheroes for Risk Communication in Times of Coronavirus”, March 2020
- Spread Stories Not the Virus | “Mexico City: Superheroes Spread the Message“, March 2020
- Urban Media Lab by Lab.Gov City | “Innovation in Cities – What Can We Learn from World Urban Forum 10?“, March 2020
- Urbanet | “Creating Culturally Vivid Urban Spaces and Places – Lessons from the 10th World Urban Forum”, February 2020
- Topos Magazine|“How Can Culture and Innovation Improve Urban Development?”, February 2020
2019
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- sub/urban. zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung Band 7, Heft 3 | “Literatur über Städte mit anderen Augen sehen” (Seeing Literature about Cities through New Eyes), December 2019
- Urban Media Lab by Lab.Gov City | “How Media Supports Participatory Urban Planning – Evidence from Hamburg, Cape Town and Mexico City“, November 2019
- Urbanet | “Building Community in the East of Mexico City”, September 2019
- TRIALOG | Changing the Perspective of Informal Settlements from Within – A Case Study of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, August 2019
- Medium | I Found the Perfect Public Space in Bogotá, July 2019
- Politik und Gesellschaft | Stadt-Land-Fremde Medellín – Wie eine Seilbahn die Fremde überbrückt (How a Cable Car is Bridging Medellín), Issue 22, “Fremde”, July 2019
- Hamburger Abendblatt | “Die Seilbahn ist eine attraktive Alternative”, June 2019
- Medium | Is Gentrification Becoming a Problem in Guatemala?, April 2019
2018
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- TRIALOG | Tracing Addis Ababa’s Historic Urban Development (with Hans Harms), September 2018
- URBANET | “Reviving the City: How an Asphalt Plant Turned Into a Public Park”, June 2018
- Politik und Gesellschaft | Wie Mexiko-Stadt sich als grüne Innovatorin profiliert (How Mexico City is getting a reputation as a green innovator), issue 20, “Neuanfang”, May 2018
- University of Manchester, Global Development Institute Blog | “Voices from Accra“, February 2018
- The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, Manchester Calling | “The Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme in the UK – a successful durable solution for refugees?”, February 2018
2017
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- Femmes et Villages | “What Makes Women Feel Safe in Public Space?“, November 2017
- Urbanplannerke | “The benefits of street art”, Instagram cooperation, November 2017
- Conference paper for RC21: Rethinking Urban Global Justice Conference in Leeds | “Re-introducing contestation into Barcelona’s urban planning politics”, September 2017
- City Explorations Network | Regular contributions to monthly topics on Instagram, 2017
2016
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- Urbanophil.de | Series of articles about HABITAT III, August 2016
- Conference paper for the No Cost Housing Conference in Zürich |“India: Slum-free by 2022? A people-centered evaluation of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Scheme”, July 2016
- Digital Development Debates | “Delhi: Please Stay Inside”, August 2016
- urb.im | Community manager for Accra, June 2016 – November 2016
