Ulrich Juergens

Ulrich Jürgens (born July 8, 1962 ) is a German geographer and professor at the University of Siegen .

Career

Ulrich Jürgens studied geography , economics , political science and history at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1981 to 1987 . The topic of his diploma thesis was The nationally important educational and research institutions in Braunschweig. Size, importance and significance for the urban community . In 1988 he completed his doctorate at Kiel University , which he completed in 1991. The topic of the dissertation was multiracial residential areas in South African cities . Jürgens then stayed at Kiel University until 2003, where he was successively a scientific employee , university assistant, senior assistant and, most recently, in 2002, an "extraordinary professor". On April 22, 1998 his habilitation took place with the topic: Retail trade in the new federal states - the competitive situation between the inner city and "Green Meadow" , illustrated by the developments in Leipzig , Rostock and Cottbus . From 2003 to 2004 he was briefly at the University of Mannheim and then took on a substitute professorship C3 / W2 for human geography at the University of Siegen.

Research and interests

Jürgen's research focuses on urban geography ( segregation processes , urban blight, suburbanization , third world problems , city ​​marketing ), population geography ("old" people), economic geography (geography of retail; port development) and sustainable urban development (waste behavior). His regional focus is on southern Africa , in Germany's new federal states and in Western Europe .

Others

• DFG projects (applicant together with Jürgen Bähr ):

- Developments in the post-apartheid city (duration 1998-2001)

- South African cities (term 2004-2007)

• Co-initiator and spokesman for the working group "Southern Africa / Sub-Saharan Africa"

Publications (selection)

• Jürgens, U. (1991): Mixed-race residential areas in South African cities . Kiel Geographical Writings 82. Kiel. (299 p.)
• Jürgens, U. (1993): Spatial environment and action space of old people in old people's and nursing homes using the example of the city of Kiel . In: Kiel working papers on regional studies and spatial planning 28, pp. 27–59.
• Jürgens, U. (1994): Post-socialist transformation of retail structures in Leipzig . In: Erdkunde 48 (4), pp. 302-314. (PR)
• Jürgens, U. & S. Kaerkes (1995): Disposal systems and disposal behavior . Using the example of bulky goods collection in Kiel . In: Der Städtetag 48 (4), pp. 274–281.
• Jürgens, U. (1997): Migration and radius of activity of elderly women . In: Fairhurst, UJ, Booysen, I. & PS Hattingh (Ed.): Migration and genderplace, time and people specific. Pretoria, pp. 151-163.
• Jürgens, U. (1998): Retail trade in the new federal states - the competitive situation between the inner city and "Green Meadows", illustrated using the developments in Leipzig, Rostock and Cottbus . Kiel Geographical Writings 98. Kiel. (395 pages)
• Jürgens, U. (2000): Maputo - recent economic and social developments in the capital of Mozambique . In: Yearbook of the Marburg Geographical Society 1999, pp. 35–41.
• Jürgens, U. (2002): Refugees in Africa . In: Praxis Geographie 32 (2), pp. 21-25.
• Bähr, J. & U. Jürgens (2005): Regional urban geography . Braunschweig.
• Jürgens, U. & J. Bähr (2008): The "concept" of reurbanization? Discussion a many-faceted term and its variations . In: Die Erde 139 (4), pp. 281–288.

Web links

• U. Jürgens , University of Siegen
• U. Jürgens , University of Kiel
• Literature by and about Ulrich Jürgens in the catalog of the German National Library