Karl-Dieter Keim

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Karl-Dieter Keim (born April 5, 1939 in Tübingen ) is a German spatial sociologist and author.

Life

After practical work in local government, Keim studied sociology , political science and public law at the University of Mannheim from 1966 and then decided to pursue an academic career. From 1970 to 1982 he worked at the German Institute for Urban Studies in Berlin. In 1979 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1982 he received his habilitation at the University of Hanover with the license to teach sociology. From 1982 to 1992 he was professor of urban and social planning at the University of Bamberg . From October 1993 until his retirement in 2004 he was professor for urban and regional development at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus and from 1992 to 2004 he headed the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (now: Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research, IRS) in Berlin and Erkner in Brandenburg. Lives in Gundelfingen (Breisgau) since 2018 .

His main research areas are urban and regional development, planning sociology, local politics and urban governance. His professional and personal experiences are also incorporated into his own literary texts.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

Scientific texts

  • The window to the room. Treatise on research into socio-spatial transformation. Opladen 2003
  • Milieu in the city. A concept for the analysis of older residential areas. Stuttgart u. a. 1979

Literary texts

  • The bolder days. A west-east novel. Berlin 2011
  • The baker's trail. A search for identity. Frankfurt a. Main, Munich, Miami, New York 2002
  • Risky encounter. Aachen 2016

Editing

  • Urban Breakthrough: Spatial Order and Communal Development in the East German Federal States. Berlin 1995
  • Work on the city. Bielefeld 1989

Essays

  • Urban redevelopment in the context of expanded urban development policy, in: M. Bernt / M. House / T. Robischon (Ed.), Urban Redevelopment Complex: Governance, Planning, Process. Darmstadt 2010, pp. 44–57
  • Spacing concepts and bridging principles for the formulation of proposals for action. Materials of the interdisciplinary working group Global Change - Regional Development, BBAW discussion paper, with an appendix by Kathrin Trommler. Berlin 2009
  • On the Difficulties Involved with the Examination of Complex Policy Agendas. In: Lentz, Sebastian (ed.): German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy. Restructuring Eastern Germany. Berlin / Heidelberg 2007, pp. 27–39
  • Peripherization of rural areas. In: From Politics and Contemporary History, Issue 37, Bonn 2006, pp. 3–7. 2006
  • A creative look at shrinking cities. In: W. Siebel (Ed.): The European city. Frankfurt a. M. 2004, pp. 208-218
  • Actor networks and the construction of the ability to act in unequal urban situations. In: Harth, Annette / Scheller, Gitta / Tessin, Wulf (ed.): City and social inequality. Opladen 2000, pp. 274-292
  • From the disintegration of the urban. In: Heitmeyer, Wilhelm (Ed.): What is driving society apart? Federal Republic of Germany: On the way from a consensus society to a conflict society. Vol. 1, Frankfurt a. M. 1997, pp. 245-286.

Functions

  • 2004–2010 fellow in two interdisciplinary working groups at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .
  • 2001/02 spokesman for the section 'Economic and Social Sciences, Spatial Sciences' of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community.
  • 1998–2006 curator of the Schader Foundation in Darmstadt
  • 1986/87 spokesman for the urban and regional sociology section of the German Society for Sociology.

Memberships

literature

  • Gerhard Mahnken and Ulf Matthiesen: I still have a lot to do. Interview with Prof. Dr. Karl-Dieter Keim. Sils Maria, Switzerland 2004 ( online ).
  • Ulf Matthiesen: laudation for Karl-Dieter Keim. On the occasion of the departure from the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Erkner near Berlin 2004 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Keim, Karl-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spatial sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen