Dieter Laepple Born : May 28, 1941 in Waiblingen near Stuttgart Professionnal Training - Ph. D. (Dr. rer. pol.) University of Bremen, Department of Economics, 1975 ; - Studies of economics and social sciences at the Technical University and the Free University of Berlin (19671972) ; Master of Economics (Dipl. Volkswirt) ; - Studies of engineering at the Hamburg University of Applied Science (1963-1966) ; - Master of Eng. (Dipl.-Ing.) ; Appointments - Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at the Hamburg University of Technology (since 1986) and HafenCity University Hamburg (since 2006) ; - Head of the Institute for “Urban and Regional Economics” at the Hamburg University of Technology / HafenCity University Hamburg1993 ; - Senior Lecturer of Socio-Economics at the Sate University of Leiden (NL) 1980-1986 ; - Associate Professor of Spatial and Transport Economics at the University of Aix-en-Provence / Marseille 1979 and 1984 ; - Lecturer of Urban Planning at the Technical University Eindhoven (NL) 1976-1978 Fellowships - Research Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst ; 2004/05 - Research Fellow of the “Ladenburg Kolleg ‘Zwischenstadt’” of the Daimler-Benz-Foundation, Ladenburg 2002 - 2005 ; - Visiting Professor on the chair “Alfred Grosser” at “Sciences Po” ; 1996/97 - Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study “Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen” in Essen ; 1991/92 - Visiting Professor at the University of Aix-en-Provence/Marseille 1990 Advisory Functions and Organisations (selection) - Member of the advisory board and Urban Expert for the Urban Age Programme of the London School of Economics and the Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialog ; - Vice-President of SCUPAD - Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development ; - Member of the scientific advisory board of the “Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg” - Member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Institute of environmental research and spatial planning (1986-1990) ; - Member of the German Academy of Urban and Spatial Planning ; Fields of research and publication Restructuring of the economic bases of metropolitan regions ; Global - local interplay in the urban nexus ; German metropolitan system and globalizaiton ; Urban and regional labour markets ; Urban Informality ; Urban time-space-configurations. RECENT PUBLICATIONS (short selection) - Stadtpolitik (with H. Häußermann and Walter Siebel), edition suhrkamp 2512, Frankfurt 2008 - Stadt, Zwischenstadt, Stadtregion. Raumwirtschaftliche Transformationen in der Stadtregion Frankfurt/Rhein-Main. (with A. Soyka), Wuppertal 2007 ; - The German System. In : The Endless City, ed. by R. Burdett and D. Sudjic, Phaidon Press : New York 2007, 232 -243. - The German Metropolis System - An Alternative to the Global City ? In : Metropolis : Reflections, ed. by U. Hellweg / IBA Hamburg, Jovis Verlag : Berlin 2007, S. 162-171. - Re-Inventing the City for the Knowledge Society. In : Convertible City, ed. by Gruentuch et al., Venice Biennale 2006 (Archplus 180). HafenCity University Hamburg _ +49 (0) 40 42878-3110 _ dieter.laepple@hcu-hamburg.de _ www.tu-harburg/stadtforschung/laepple