Bettina Bauerfeind, Josefine Fokdal (Eds.):
Bridging Urbanities – Reflections on Urban Design in Shanghai and Berlin
Habitat International Series Vol. 17, Münster 2011: LIT. ISBN 978-3-643-90131-6
Urban Design, as it is taught and practiced today, is more than designing cities. It is about understanding processes and mechanism influencing the city and its inhabitants. This publication reflects topics emerging from the Dual Urban Design Master Program carried out by the TU Berlin and the CAUP of Tongji University Shanghai. It shares results, insights, positions, and questions from discussions on urban design in the past five years. 160 pages. Available in bookshops or at the Habitat Unit.

Paola Alfaro d'Alençon, Walter Alejandro Imilan, Lina María Sánchez (Hg.):
Lateinamerikanische Städte im Wandel. Zwischen lokaler Stadtgesellschaft und globalem Einfluss
Habitat International Series Vol. 16. Münster 2011: LIT. ISBN 978-3-643-11084-8.
Zunehmende Migration, Liberalisierung der Märkte, Rückzug des Staates und Globalisierungsprozesse haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Städte Lateinamerikas grundlegend verändert. 25 Beiträge aktueller Stadtforschung zu Lateinamerika aus Deutschland und Lateinamerika. 245 Seiten. Erhältlich in Buchhandlungen und im Sekretriat der Habitat Unit.

Walter Alejandro Imilan:
Warriache – Urban Indigenous. Mapuche Migration and Ethnicity in Santiago de Chile
Habitat International Series Vol. 15. Münster 2010: LIT. ISBN 978-3-643-10475-5.
This book observes the ways in which urban society in Santiago experiences a restructuring process, as a space where new social agents, new ways of organizing internal diversity, and new dynamics of power arise. The author re-examines emerging conepts of urban ethnicity taking the urban Mapuche from Santiago as a reference. 267 pages. Available in bookshops or at the Habitat Unit.

Astrid Ley:
Housing as Governance. Interfaces between Local Government and Civil Society Organizations in Cape Town, South Africa.
Habitat International Series Vol. 14. Münster 2010: LIT. ISBN 978-3-643-10330-7.
This book explores the dynamic roles and linkages of public sector institutions and civil society actors in housing provision for the urban poor in South Africa. Based on actor-centred and network theories, two cases of civil society alliances are analyzed. 426 pages. Available in bookshops or at the Habitat Unit.

Peter Herrle & Stephanus Schmitz (eds.):
Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture. Case Studies from the South
Habitat International Series Vol. 12. Münster 2009: LIT. ISBN 978-3-643-10276-8. This book complements our earlier publication on „Architecture and Identity“ through five in-depth studies written by renowned scholars from Brazil (Ruth Verde Zein), Mexico (Susanne Dussel), Egypt (Khaled Asfour), India (Rahul Mehrotra) and Singapore (William Lim). 300 pages, 16 color plates. Available in bookshops or at the Habitat Unit.

Josefine Fokdal:
Power and Space - Appropriation of Space in Social Housing in Kopenhagen
Habitat International Series Vol. 10. Münster 2008: LIT. ISBN 978-3-8258-1390-1. This book addresses the notion of power relations in undefined spaces through case studies in four social housing projects in Kopenhagen.

Peter Herrle, Erik Wegerhoff (eds.):
Architecture and Identity
Habitat International Series Vol 9. Münster 2008: LIT. ISBN 978-3-8258-1088-7. This book presents fourty contributions from various disciplines aiming to destroy the myth of an inheritable or otherwise prefabricatd identity in architecture. It argues that identity is no longer an issue predestined by one's ancestry, nor is it something that is necessarily associated with the concept 'ownness'. It has to – and what is equally important – it can be constructed by individuals, groups and societies. This book takes global, multidiciplinary look on how identites in contemporay architecture are constructed. 500 pages. Available in bookshops or at the Habitat Unit.

Peter Herrle (Hrsg.):
Berlin Shanghai 1999-2005
Berlin 2008. This publication presents results from studios, summer schools, workshops and symposia that have been carried out together with our partners from Tongji University Shanghai. 131 color pages. Available at our secretariat A53, 6th floor, Architecture Building.

Fernando Jiménez Cavieres:
Chilean Housing Policy. A Case for Social Exclusion.
ISBN 978-3-8258-9874-8, Münster 2008

Peter Herrle, Uwe-Jens Walther (eds.):
Socially Inclusive Cities. Emerging Concepts and Practice. With contributions from Peter Herrle, Uwe-Jens Walther, Horst Matthäus, Reinhard Goethert, Alicia Ziccardi and Arturo Mier y Terán, Christoph Stump, Debra Roberts, Monika El Shorbagi, Neelima Risbud, Anne Power, Mary Corcoran White, Heidede Becker and Hans-Peter Löhr
ISBN 3-8258-6971-7, Münster 2005

Meriem Chabou:
Der informelle Straßenhandel in Algier. Transformation und Inbesitznahme des öffentlichen Raums. ISBN 3-8258-8685-9, Münster 2005

Senda Kara:
Leitbilder und Handlungsgrundlagen des modernen Städtebaus in der Türkei. ISBN 3-8258-8675-1, Münster 2005

Umut Duyar-Kienast:
The Formation of Gecekondu Settlements in Turkey. The Case of Ankara. ISBN 3-8258-8729-4, Münster 2005

Paula Santos:
Neue Instrumente der Stadtplanung in Brasilien. Das Ende der illegalen Stadt? ISBN 3-8258-6972-5, Münster 2004

Steffen Lehmann:
Der Weg Brasiliens in die Moderne – eine Bewertung und Einordnung der modernen Architektur 1930-1955. Brazil’s Path to Modernism – An Assessment and Classification of Brazil’s Modern Architecture 1930-1955
ISBN 3-8258-6939-3, Münster 2004