Benjamin Davy

Benjamin Davy (* 1956 in Vienna ) is an Austrian legal scholar specializing in building and land law and spatial planning . He was a professor at the Technical University of Dortmund and the author of numerous monographs and specialist articles. Davy coined the term building land paradox . He is President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP).

Live and act

Benjamin Davy studied law at the University of Vienna from 1974 to 1980 and graduated as Dr. iur. from. From 1980 to 1998 Davy was university assistant, assistant professor and associate professor at the Technical University of Vienna . During this time he received his habilitation from the University of Vienna. The habilitation thesis reads Danger prevention in plant law .

In 1998 he followed a call from the University of Dortmund and became a university professor for land policy, land management and municipal surveying at the spatial planning faculty. He held this chair until 2019. His predecessors (Chair of Surveying and Land Management ) were Walter Seele and Hartmut Dieterich .

Davy researches regionally, nationally and internationally in many areas of spatial planning. Research focuses on planning theory and philosophy, property theories , land management , land value formation , the theory of boundaries, geoinformation and cartography , environmental and social policy as well as human rights and dignity. For his chair he attaches importance to "international research and conference participation, publications in English as well as the formation of theories."

Davy was the project manager of the Ruhr 2030 urban region , a research network of the cities of Duisburg , Mülheim an der Ruhr , Oberhausen , Gelsenkirchen , Essen , Herne , Bochum , Dortmund and the spatial planning department of the University of Dortmund. The project (2000–2004) was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a nucleus for the Ruhr urban region , which Hagen and Hamm joined. Davy was a member of the interdisciplinary research project FLOOR (Financial Assistance, Land Policy, and Global Social Rights, 2007-2015) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft . The central research topic was: Social security as a human right. For the global construction and diffusion of basic social security . "The project researches socio-ecological soil policy as a contribution to the emergence of a global social policy."

With the buzzword building land paradox, Davy captured the paradoxical situation in 1996 that the majority of the municipalities could purely arithmetically cover their building land needs indoors , but the trend towards building outdoors and thus urban sprawl continues to dominate.

Benjamin Davy is the son of the director and actor Walter Davy and great-grandson of the former provincial administrator of Burgenland Robert Davy . He is married to the legal scholar Ulrike Davy.

Selection of publications

Monographs

• Benjamin Davy, Sony Pellissery, Harvey Jacobs: Land policies in India. Promises, practices and challenges . Springer Nature, Singapore 2017, ISBN 978-981-10-4207-2 .
• Benjamin Davy: Land Policy - Planning and the Spatial Consequences of Property . Taylor & Francis, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7546-7792-5 , pp. 296 .
• Benjamin Davy: Innovation potential for space development in shrinking cities - using the example of Magdeburg . 2006, p. 176 .
• Benjamin Davy: The ninth city - wild borders and urban regions Ruhr 2030 . Müller + Busmann, 2004, ISBN 978-3-928766-61-6 .
• Benjamin Davy: Essential Injustice: When Legal Institutions Cannot Resolve Environmental and Land Use Disputes . Springer, 1997, ISBN 978-3-211-82951-6 , pp. 540 .
• Benjamin Davy: Defense in investment law . Springer, Vienna 1990, ISBN 978-3-211-82248-7 , p. 865 .

Technical articles

• Benjamin Davy: Land market / land policy . In: Academy for spatial research and regional planning (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary of the city and spatial development . 2018, p. 267-279 .
• Benjamin Davy: Is Hayek vs Kelsen helpful for planning theory? A comment on Slaev's types of planning and property rights . In: Planning Theory . tape 17 , no. 2 , 2018, ISSN  1473-0952 , p. 296-300 .
• Benjamin Davy, Andy Inch, Lucie Laurian, Clare Mouat, Ruth Davies, Crystal Legacy, Clare Symonds: Planning in the face of immovable subjects: a dialogue about resistance to development forces . In: Planning Theory & Practice . tape 18 , no. 3 , 2017, p. 469-488 .
• Benjamin Davy: Land values ​​as the social construction of scarcity . In: The Public Sector . tape 42 , no. 1 . Vienna 2016, p. 131-145 .
• Benjamin Davy: Plural Land Uses and Polyrational Land Ownership . In: Willi Freeden , Reiner Rummel (Ed.): Handbook of Geodesy . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2015.
• Benjamin Davy: Spatial planning and human rights . In: Planning Theory . tape 13 , no. 4 , 2014.
• Benjamin Davy, Ulrike Davy: Attitude in Dark Times - The Journal for Public Law between 1933 and 1945 . In: Journal of Public Law . 2014, p. 715-804 .
• Benjamin Davy: What is and to whom is land policy useful? In: Surveying and Spatial Planning . 2014, p. 193-200 .
• Benjamin Davy: Spatial Planning and the Politics of Dignity . In: Wolfgang Blaas, Johann Bröthaler, Michael Getzner, Gerlinde Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald (Hrsg.): Perspectives on the fulfillment of state tasks. Between budgetary scarcity and integrative claim. For Wilfried Schönbäck on his 70th birthday . Austria, Vienna 2014, p. 51-76 .
• Benjamin Davy: Securing free space through land policy - What would have to happen if we took the goal of 30-ha seriously . In: Marion Klemme, Klaus Selle (Ed.): Develop settlement areas. Actors. Interdependencies. Options . Rohn, Detmold 2010, p. 258-271 .
• Benjamin Davy: Parcels, common land , spaces in between - spatial planning through property design . In: Christoph Bernhardt, Heiderose Kilper, Timothey Moss (Hrsg.): In the interest of the common good - Regional common goods in history, politics and planning . Campus, Frankfurt 2009, p. 293-329 .
• Benjamin Davy: Property values, urban redevelopment and land policy. In: vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development (Ed.): Vhw Forum Wohneigentum . No. 2 , 2005, p. 67-72 .
• Benjamin Davy: The Building Land Paradox . In: Klaus Einig (Ed.): Publishing house for science and research . 2000, p. 61-78 .
• Benjamin Davy: Building land security: cause or solution of a spatial planning paradox . In: Journal for Administration . tape 21 , no. 2 , 1996, p. 193-208 .
• Benjamin Davy, Manfred Straube: Legal capacity without legal personality? In: The partner - journal for corporate and corporate law . 1980, p. 174-182 .

Selection of offices and memberships

• President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) (2012–2016)
• President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) (since 2017)
• Member of the upper committee of experts for property values ​​in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Member of the expert committees for property values in Dortmund and Hagen
• Co-editor of Planning Theory , Planning Theory & Practice and Journal of the American Planning Association

Web links

• Literature by and about Benjamin Davy in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Benjamin Davy, Brigitte Hower, Heinz Kobs, Susanne Syska-Fleckes: Land Policy , Surveying and Spatial Planning in Dortmund from 1968 to 2018 . In: Faculty of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund (Ed.): 50 Years of Dortmund Spatial Planning . jovis, Dortmund 2018, p. 87-113 ( online ).
• Benjamin Davy - CV, Publications, Memberships. 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 . 
• Prof. Dr. Benjamin Davy and Curriculum Vitae. 2017, accessed August 10, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Benjamin Davy and Curriculum Vitae. 2017, accessed August 10, 2019 . 
2. ^ Benjamin Davy - curriculum vitae, publications, memberships. 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Department of Spatial Planning 30 years old: Two inaugural lectures. Informationsdienst Wissenschaft eV, 1999, accessed on May 1, 2017 . 
4. ^ Benjamin Davy, Brigitte Hower, Heinz Kobs, Susanne Syska-Fleckes: Land Policy , Surveying and Spatial Planning in Dortmund from 1968 to 2018 . In: Faculty of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund (Ed.): 50 Years of Dortmund Spatial Planning . jovis, Dortmund 2018, p. 87-113 ( online ).
5. ↑ Ruhr urban region. City region Ruhr 2030, 2019, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
6. ↑ FLOOR. Technical University of Dortmund, 2019, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Social-ecological soil policy. German Research Foundation, 2019, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
8. ^ Benjamin Davy: Building land security: cause or solution of a spatial planning paradox . In: Journal for Administration . tape 21 , no. 2 , 1996, p. 193-208 .
9. ^ Benjamin Davy: Thoughts on Internationalism and Planning . In: Liverpool University Press (Ed.): The Town Planning Review . tape 89 , no. 4 , July 1, 2018.
10. ↑ Office Holders - ExCo (Executive Committee). International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Executive Committee (ExCo). 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 . 
12. ^ Planning Theory. Retrieved August 10, 2019 . 
13. ^ Planning Theory & Practice. Retrieved August 10, 2019 . 
14. ^ Journal of the American Planning Association. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .