Florian Urban

• Head of History of Architecture and Urban Studies (HAUS)
• Architecture

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Book or Monograph

Berlin / DDR, neohistorisch: Geschichte aus Fertigteilen

Urban, Florian (2007) Berlin / DDR, neohistorisch: Geschichte aus Fertigteilen. Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 3786125449

Neo-historical East Berlin – Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990

Urban, Florian (2009) Neo-historical East Berlin – Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990. Ashgate Studies in Architecture . Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 0754676161

The New Tenement - Residences in the Inner City Since 1970

Urban, Florian (2017) The New Tenement - Residences in the Inner City Since 1970. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138224469

Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland: Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity

Urban, Florian (2020) Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland: Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity. Routledge. ISBN 9780367860738

Tower and Slab – Histories of Global Mass Housing

Urban, Florian (2011) Tower and Slab – Histories of Global Mass Housing. Routledge, London. ISBN 0415676290

Башня и коробка: Краткая история массового жилья (Vashnya i korobka: kratkaya istoriya massovogo zhilya) [Russian translation of "Tower and Slab"]

Urban, Florian (2019) Башня и коробка: Краткая история массового жилья (Vashnya i korobka: kratkaya istoriya massovogo zhilya) [Russian translation of "Tower and Slab"]. Strelka Press, Moscow.

Book Section

East Berlin

Urban, Florian (2013) East Berlin. In: Capital Cities in the Shadow of the Cold War. Alexandrine Press (Taylor and Francis), New York.

The End of the Planned City? Urban Planning after 1989

Urban, Florian (2022) The End of the Planned City? Urban Planning after 1989. In: European Planning History in the 20th Century - A Continent of Urban Planning. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 256-267. ISBN 9781032222271; 9781003271666 (ebook)

Erker im Plattenbau – Die DDR entdeckt die historische Stadt

Urban, Florian (2010) Erker im Plattenbau – Die DDR entdeckt die historische Stadt. In: Paradigmenwechsel und Kontinuitätslinien im DDR-Städtebau. Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Berlin. ISBN 3934669093

The Friedrichstadt Palace in East Berlin

Urban, Florian (2015) The Friedrichstadt Palace in East Berlin. In: Setting the Scene: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Theatre Architecture. Routledge, Farnham, pp. 219-236. ISBN 9781472416520

Improvisation: Allotment Sheds (Berlin)

Urban, Florian (2018) Improvisation: Allotment Sheds (Berlin). In: Encyclopaedia of Vernacular Architecture. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 9781472592736

La Perla, Puerto Rico: Beyond Formal and Informal

Urban, Florian (2023) La Perla, Puerto Rico: Beyond Formal and Informal. In: The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford University Press, pp. 516-537. ISBN 9780190879457

La ville divisée 1945-1989

Urban, Florian (2014) La ville divisée 1945-1989. In: Berlin – Histoire, Promenades, Anthologie et Dictionnaire. Editions Laffont, Paris. ISBN 9782221125700

Large Housing Estates of Berlin, Germany

Urban, Florian (2018) Large Housing Estates of Berlin, Germany. In: Housing Estates in Europe - Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges. The Urban Book Series . Springer, Berlin, pp. 99-120. ISBN 9783319928128

Mass Housing in Germany – Controversial Success and Ambivalent Heritage

Urban, Florian (2011) Mass Housing in Germany – Controversial Success and Ambivalent Heritage. In: Espacios Ambivalentes: historias y olvidos en la arquitectura social moderna. Ediciones Callejón, San Juan, Puerto Rico, pp. 52-75.

Myth no. 7: Only Immigrants Still Live in European Public Housing

Urban, Florian (2015) Myth no. 7: Only Immigrants Still Live in European Public Housing. In: Public Housing Myths: Beyond Victims and Villains. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.

The Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin In Mark Swenarton, Tom Avermaete, and Dirk van den Heuvel, eds., Architecture and the Welfare State (Abingdon: Taylor and Francis, 2014)

Urban, Florian (2014) The Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin In Mark Swenarton, Tom Avermaete, and Dirk van den Heuvel, eds., Architecture and the Welfare State (Abingdon: Taylor and Francis, 2014). In: Architecture and the Welfare State. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 177-198.

Tower Blocks, Infills, Eco Estates — The Discourse on Social Housing in West Germany

Urban, Florian (2023) Tower Blocks, Infills, Eco Estates — The Discourse on Social Housing in West Germany. In: The Social Dimension of Social Housing. Spector Books, Leipzig, pp. 248-263. ISBN 9783959056533

Article

Berlin’s Construction Groups and the Politics of Bottom-Up Architecture

Urban, Florian (2018) Berlin’s Construction Groups and the Politics of Bottom-Up Architecture. Urban History, 45 (2). pp. 1-32. ISSN 0963-9268

Book Review of Architecture’s Historical Turn – Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010

Urban, Florian (2011) Book Review of Architecture’s Historical Turn – Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Planning Perspectives, 26 (2). pp. 319-343. ISSN 0266-5433

Book review of “A women’s Berlin” by Despina Stratigakos

Urban, Florian (2009) Book review of “A women’s Berlin” by Despina Stratigakos. European Architectural History Network. ISSN 1997-5023

Bottom-Up Postmodernism: Unauthorised Church Architecture in Socialist Poland

Urban, Florian (2020) Bottom-Up Postmodernism: Unauthorised Church Architecture in Socialist Poland. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 79 (4). pp. 459-477. ISSN 0037-9808

Built Historiography in Glasgow’s New Gorbals

Urban, Florian (2011) Built Historiography in Glasgow’s New Gorbals. Journal of Art Historiography. ISSN 2042-4752

Copenhagen’s “Return to the Inner City” 1990-2010

Urban, Florian (2021) Copenhagen’s “Return to the Inner City” 1990-2010. Journal of Urban History, 47 (3). pp. 651-673. ISSN 1552-6771

Designing the Past in East Berlin Before and After the German Reunification

Urban, Florian (2008) Designing the Past in East Berlin Before and After the German Reunification. Progress in Planning, 86 (1). pp. 1-55. ISSN 0305-9006

Does Postmodern Mean Capitalist? On Postmodernism and the Planned Economy in Poland and the German Democratic Republic

Urban, Florian (2024) Does Postmodern Mean Capitalist? On Postmodernism and the Planned Economy in Poland and the German Democratic Republic. A+U Architekura Urbanizmus, 57 (3-4). pp. 162-175. ISSN 0044-8680

From Obsolescence to Eternal Preservation

Urban, Florian (2006) From Obsolescence to Eternal Preservation. Future Anterior, 3 (1). pp. 24-35.

Germany, Country of Tenants

Urban, Florian (2015) Germany, Country of Tenants. Built Environment, 41 (2). pp. 183-195. ISSN 0263-7960

Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall and the Invention of the Post-modern City

Urban, Florian (2013) Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall and the Invention of the Post-modern City. Journal of Architecture, 18 (2). pp. 254-296. ISSN 1360-2365

The Hut on the Garden Plot - Informal Architecture in Twentieth-Century Berlin

Urban, Florian (2013) The Hut on the Garden Plot - Informal Architecture in Twentieth-Century Berlin. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 72 (2). pp. 221-249. ISSN 00379808

Japanese Occidentalism and the Emergence of Postmodern Architecture

Urban, Florian (2012) Japanese Occidentalism and the Emergence of Postmodern Architecture. Journal of Architectural Education, 65 (2). pp. 89-102. ISSN 1046-4883

La Perla – 100 years of Informal Architecture in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Urban, Florian (2015) La Perla – 100 years of Informal Architecture in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Planning Perspectives, 30 (4). pp. 495-536. ISSN 0266-5433

Modernising Glasgow – Tower Blocks, Motorways, and New Towns 1940-2010

Urban, Florian (2018) Modernising Glasgow – Tower Blocks, Motorways, and New Towns 1940-2010. The Journal of Architecture, 23 (2). pp. 265-309. ISSN 1360-2365

Mumbai’s Suburban Mass Housing – Modernist Tower Blocks in an Indian Metropolis 1947-1990

Urban, Florian (2012) Mumbai’s Suburban Mass Housing – Modernist Tower Blocks in an Indian Metropolis 1947-1990. Urban History, 39 (1). pp. 128-148. ISSN 0963-9268

New Tenements and the Image of the Past – the Crown Street Development in Glasgow’s New Gorbals

Urban, Florian (2013) New Tenements and the Image of the Past – the Crown Street Development in Glasgow’s New Gorbals. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 17 (1). pp. 37-48. ISSN 1359-1355

The Old Town of Elblag - a Postmodern Historic Monument

Urban, Florian (2022) The Old Town of Elblag - a Postmodern Historic Monument. City: History, Culture, Society, 1 (13). pp. 334-351. ISSN 2616-4280

Picture Postcards of Urbanity – Reflections on Berlin’s Inner City and the 1999 Master Plan

Urban, Florian (2003) Picture Postcards of Urbanity – Reflections on Berlin’s Inner City and the 1999 Master Plan. Journal of Architectural Education, 57 (1). pp. 68-73. ISSN 1046-4883

Postmodern Architecture Under Socialism – The Ascension Church in Warsaw-Ursynów

Urban, Florian (2020) Postmodern Architecture Under Socialism – The Ascension Church in Warsaw-Ursynów. The Journal of Architecture, 25 (3). pp. 317-346. ISSN 1360-2365

Postmodern Reconciliation – Reinventing the Old Town of Elbląg

Urban, Florian (2020) Postmodern Reconciliation – Reinventing the Old Town of Elbląg. Architectural Histories, 8 (1). Art 16. ISSN 2050-5833

Postmodernism and socialist mass housing in Poland

Urban, Florian (2020) Postmodernism and socialist mass housing in Poland. Planning Perspectives, 35 (1). pp. 27-60. ISSN 0266-5433

Prefab Russia

Urban, Florian (2008) Prefab Russia. Docomomo Journal, 39. pp. 18-22.

Rudolf Schwarz and the Speech of the Land – Grammar as a Political Device in Postwar Germany

Urban, Florian (2004) Rudolf Schwarz and the Speech of the Land – Grammar as a Political Device in Postwar Germany. Journal of Architecture, 9 (3). pp. 251-266. ISSN 1360-2365

The Spirit of the City – Transcendence and Urban Design in Postwar Berlin

Urban, Florian (2002) The Spirit of the City – Transcendence and Urban Design in Postwar Berlin. Thresholds 25: Sacrosanct (25). pp. 84-89. ISSN 1091-711X

Vienna’s resistance to the neoliberal turn - social policy through residential architecture from 1970 to the present

Urban, Florian (2019) Vienna’s resistance to the neoliberal turn - social policy through residential architecture from 1970 to the present. Footprint, 13 (1). pp. 91-112. ISSN 1875-1504

Back to the Future: M&S Oxford Street vs the Baths of Caracalla – energy profiles compared

Urban, Florian and Calder, Barnabas (2022) Back to the Future: M&S Oxford Street vs the Baths of Caracalla – energy profiles compared. Architects Journal, 249 (4). pp. 54-61. ISSN 0003-8466

Hebridean blackhouse vs volume housebuilder home – energy profiles compared

Urban, Florian and Calder, Barnabas (2022) Hebridean blackhouse vs volume housebuilder home – energy profiles compared. Architects Journal, 249 (8). pp. 24-31. ISSN 0003-8466

"It is time no longer to praise the Seagram Building, but to bury it" [comparison of the energy profile of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram Building with Waugh Thistleton’s 6 Orsman Road]

Urban, Florian and Calder, Barnabas (2022) "It is time no longer to praise the Seagram Building, but to bury it" [comparison of the energy profile of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram Building with Waugh Thistleton’s 6 Orsman Road]. Architects Journal, 249 (108). ISSN 0003-8466

Beyond Formal and Informal: Mid-twentieth-century Residential Architecture in Barcelona's El Carmel Neighbourhood

Urban, Florian and Golda-Pongratz, Kathrin (2024) Beyond Formal and Informal: Mid-twentieth-century Residential Architecture in Barcelona's El Carmel Neighbourhood. Urban History. pp. 1-31. ISSN 0963-9268

“Balmoral Castle – European Romanticism and Nation Building in the Scottish Highlands” [co-authored with Aonghus MacKechnie], Architectural History 58 n. 1 (2015), 159-196.

Urban, Florian and MacKechnie, Aonghus (2015) “Balmoral Castle – European Romanticism and Nation Building in the Scottish Highlands” [co-authored with Aonghus MacKechnie], Architectural History 58 n. 1 (2015), 159-196. Architectural History.

Conference or Workshop Item

Mac Research Symposium : How To Publish an Academic Book

Rodger, Johnny, McCormack, Helen, Robertson, Frances and Urban, Florian (2018) Mac Research Symposium : How To Publish an Academic Book. In: Mac Research symposium, 24 January 2018, Bourdon building, Main Lecture theatre, Glasgow School of Art.

The Ambivalent Success of Social Housing in Germany

Urban, Florian (2012) The Ambivalent Success of Social Housing in Germany. In: Conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) in Sao Paulo, July 2012.

The Ascension Church in Warsaw-Ursynów – Postmodernism and the Nation in Late Socialist Poland

Urban, Florian (2019) The Ascension Church in Warsaw-Ursynów – Postmodernism and the Nation in Late Socialist Poland. In: Spaces of Un-Nationalism, 7-8 November 2019, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.

Back to the City (Conference)

Urban, Florian (2016) Back to the City (Conference). In: Back to the City - Urbanism, Density, Housing 1976-2016, 5-6 May 2016, Glasgow, UK.

The Battle over Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin - Conference Presentation at the University of Amsterdam

Urban, Florian (2013) The Battle over Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin - Conference Presentation at the University of Amsterdam. In: International Sociological Association RC43 (Research Committee on Housing and the Built Environment), 10-12 July 2013,, Amsterdam University, M Building (Amsterdam Business School), Plantage Muidergracht 12, 1018 TV Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Berlin’s Building Groups – A Bottom-Up Initiative in a Highly Professionalized Environment

Urban, Florian (2016) Berlin’s Building Groups – A Bottom-Up Initiative in a Highly Professionalized Environment. In: Conference of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), 2-4 Jun 2016, Dublin Castle, Ireland.

Built Historiography in Glasgow’s New Gorbals

Urban, Florian (2010) Built Historiography in Glasgow’s New Gorbals. In: Third Annual Glasgow Colloquium on Art Historiography, 25 to 27 November 2010, University of Glasgow.

Construction Groups and Urban Resources in Early-Twenty-First-Century Berlin

Urban, Florian (2021) Construction Groups and Urban Resources in Early-Twenty-First-Century Berlin. In: European Architectural History Network (EAHN), Conference in Edinburgh, June 2021, University of Edinburgh (online).

Creative Transformation of Large-Scale Public Housing

Urban, Florian (2018) Creative Transformation of Large-Scale Public Housing. In: Transformation of Large-Scale Housing, 16-21 September 2018, Vienna, University of Vienna and Theater Brett.

The De-industrializing City

Urban, Florian (2016) The De-industrializing City. In: The De-industrialising City: Urban, architectural and socio-cultural perspectives, 12-13 December 2016, German Historical Institute, London.

Debates over Postmodern Architecture in Late Socialist Poland

Urban, Florian (2021) Debates over Postmodern Architecture in Late Socialist Poland. In: Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century, 24-25 June 2021, St Anthony's College, University of Oxford (online).

Der Hof im Stadtquartier (The Courtyard in the Urban Neighbourhood)

Urban, Florian (2017) Der Hof im Stadtquartier (The Courtyard in the Urban Neighbourhood). In: Stadtbaukunst - die Entwicklung von Stadtquartieren [Urban Design - Neighbourhood Development], 28 June 2017, Frankfurt, Germany.

Die Wiederentdeckung der Altstadt. Das Nikolaiviertel und die Husemannstraße in Ost-Berlin

Urban, Florian (2017) Die Wiederentdeckung der Altstadt. Das Nikolaiviertel und die Husemannstraße in Ost-Berlin. In: Das doppelte Stadtjubiläum, 8 September 2017, Berlin Wall Foundation, Berlin.

Do tenements generate social cohesion? - The city as an active agent vs. the city as a site for action

Urban, Florian (2016) Do tenements generate social cohesion? - The city as an active agent vs. the city as a site for action. In: Annual Urban History Group Conference: Re-Evaluating the Place of the City in History, 31 Mar- 1 Apr 2016, University of Cambridge, UK.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Urban, Florian (2016) Frank Lloyd Wright. In: The Battle of the Architects - Scotland vs. America, 16 March 2016, Glasgow City Heritage Trust , Webster's Theatre.

The Future of Planning History

Urban, Florian (2015) The Future of Planning History. In: International Planning History Workshop, 11-13 June 2015, TU Delft, The Netherlands.

Glasgow’s Tenement Tradition

Urban, Florian (2018) Glasgow’s Tenement Tradition. In: Glasgow's Tenement Tradition - Are We British or European?, 15 February 2018, Glasgow City Heritage Trust (organizer), St Luke's, Bain Street, Glasgow.

High-rise Housing in Chicago, Berlin, Moscow, and Shanghai

Urban, Florian (2008) High-rise Housing in Chicago, Berlin, Moscow, and Shanghai. In: Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, 2008, Boston, USA.

Historic Conservation and East Berlin’s Socialist Heritage

Urban, Florian (2012) Historic Conservation and East Berlin’s Socialist Heritage. In: Conference "Yesterday Today Tomorrow: Memory in the Urban Space", National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, organised by the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation.

Histories of Informal Architecture [Panel]

Urban, Florian (2022) Histories of Informal Architecture [Panel]. In: Conference of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), 15-18 June 2022, Colegio de Arquitectos, Madrid, Spain.

The Hut on the Garden Plot

Urban, Florian (2013) The Hut on the Garden Plot. In: Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Annual Meeting in Buffalo, USA, Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Informal architecture in La Perla, Old San Juan - Heritage or Disturbance?

Urban, Florian (2015) Informal architecture in La Perla, Old San Juan - Heritage or Disturbance? In: De Ruinas, Memorias, Paisajes y Monumentos: Las Dimensiones Sinuosas Del Patrimonio, 26-27 March 2015, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

La Perla – 100 years of informal architecture in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Urban, Florian (2014) La Perla – 100 years of informal architecture in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In: Lecture Series at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin Technical University, 4 November 2014, Berlin.

La Perla, Puerto Rico – Writing the History of Informal Architecture

Urban, Florian (2018) La Perla, Puerto Rico – Writing the History of Informal Architecture. In: A World of Architectural History, 2-4 November 2018, Bartlett School of Architecture, London.

Large Housing Estates in European Cities

Urban, Florian (2020) Large Housing Estates in European Cities. In: Lecture Series Mass Housing, 19 Aug 2020, Moscow Higher School of Economics (online).

"Le Grand Glasgow" - the Decentralisation of Glasgow 1950-1970

Urban, Florian (2015) "Le Grand Glasgow" - the Decentralisation of Glasgow 1950-1970. In: Inventing Grand Paris - Cross-Perspectives on Metropolitan Areas from the 1940s to the 1960s, 1-2 Dec 2015, Petit Palais, Paris, France.

Mass Housing Elsewhere

Urban, Florian (2017) Mass Housing Elsewhere. In: Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting, 7-9 June 2017, Glasgow.

Mass Housing Estates

Urban, Florian (2021) Mass Housing Estates. In: Belgrade International Architecture Week / BINA 21, April 22th - May 5th 2021, Association of Belgrade Architects, Belgrade, Serbia (online).

Mass Housing in East and West Germany

Urban, Florian (2011) Mass Housing in East and West Germany. In: Mass Housing, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art.

Mass Housing in Germany and Beyond

Urban, Florian (2021) Mass Housing in Germany and Beyond. In: Architektur als Baukasten (title of the seminar), 4th February 2021, University of Hamburg, Department of Art History, Dr. Frank Schmitz (online).

Massenwohnungsbau in Moskau und Ost-Berlin

Urban, Florian (2010) Massenwohnungsbau in Moskau und Ost-Berlin. In: 11th Conference on East German Planning History, 2010, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning Erkner, Berlin, Germany.

Mumbai Mass Housing

Urban, Florian (2010) Mumbai Mass Housing. In: Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Meeting, 2010, Pasadena, California.

The Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin

Urban, Florian (2012) The Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin. In: Architecture and the Welfare State 1918-1979, September 2012, University of Liverpool.

The New Tenement (Warsaw)

Urban, Florian (2018) The New Tenement (Warsaw). In: The New Tenement - Public Lecture at Politechnika Warszawska, 29 November 2018, Warsaw Polytechnic University.

The New Tenement - Architecture and the Return to the Inner City

Urban, Florian (2018) The New Tenement - Architecture and the Return to the Inner City. In: The New Tenement - Architecture and the Return to the Inner City, 18 January 2018, The Lighthouse, Glasgow.

The New Tenement - Keynote Speech at the EVN annual meeting

Urban, Florian (2018) The New Tenement - Keynote Speech at the EVN annual meeting. In: Annual Meeting of the association "Employers in Voluntary Housing" (EVN), 8 April 2018, Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow.

The New Tenement - Manchester School of Architecture

Urban, Florian (2019) The New Tenement - Manchester School of Architecture. In: The New Tenement: Book Presentation, 20 Feb 2019, Manchester School of Art.

The New Tenement - Re-housing the Inner City

Urban, Florian (2016) The New Tenement - Re-housing the Inner City. In: Architecture History and Theory Lecture Series, 4 Oct 2016, Minto House, University of Edinburgh, UK.

The New Tenement – on Urban Density and Social Cohesion

Urban, Florian (2016) The New Tenement – on Urban Density and Social Cohesion. In: Biennial Conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS), 17-20 Jul 2016, TU Delft, The Netherlands.

The New Tenement

Urban, Florian (2015) The New Tenement. In: Public Lecture Series at the Institute for Social Sciences, 18 May 2015, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin.

The New Tenement

Urban, Florian (2017) The New Tenement. In: Sykhiv Lectures, organized by the Center for Urban History, 22 August 2017, Lviv, Ukraine.

The New Tenement

Urban, Florian (2018) The New Tenement. In: The New Tenement - Book Release Event, 12 January 2018, Book Store "Pro QM", Berlin.

The New Tenement

Urban, Florian (2019) The New Tenement. In: The New Tenement (Turin), 3 October 2019, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.

New Tenements – Architecture for Urban Cohesion? [paper], Tenements, Tower Blocks and Collective Life [panel title]

Urban, Florian (2019) New Tenements – Architecture for Urban Cohesion? [paper], Tenements, Tower Blocks and Collective Life [panel title]. In: Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Conference, 21-23 November 2019, Unversity of Dundee.

The Old Town of Elbląg, a Postmodern Historic Monument

Urban, Florian (2021) The Old Town of Elbląg, a Postmodern Historic Monument. In: After Socialist Modernism. Design, Architecture and Urban planning of the 1980s, 11-12 October 2021, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

The Oude Westen a “Gentle” Urban Renewal in European Cities

Urban, Florian (2019) The Oude Westen a “Gentle” Urban Renewal in European Cities. In: The urban renewal of the Oude Westen neighbourhood revisited, 21-24 August 2019, Office for Metropolitan Information, Rotterdam.

Polnische postmoderne Architektur im internationalen Spannungsfeld [Polish Postmodern Architecture in an International Context]

Urban, Florian (2017) Polnische postmoderne Architektur im internationalen Spannungsfeld [Polish Postmodern Architecture in an International Context]. In: Verflechtung und Abgrenzung. Deutsch-polnische Perspektiven in der Kunstgeschichte seit 1945/ Powiązania i rozbieżności. Niemiecko-polskie perspektywy badawcze w historii sztuki po roku 1945 [German-Polish perspectives in art history since 1945], 16-17 November 2017, German Historical Institute, Warsaw.

Políticas de preservación arquitectónica en Berlín y Guadalajara

Urban, Florian (2008) Políticas de preservación arquitectónica en Berlín y Guadalajara. In: Arquitectura moderna del siglo XX en Guadalajara: La conservación de un patrimonio, Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, Guadalajara, Mexico.

Post-socialist transition: Between Conflicts and Legacy [Panel organization]

Urban, Florian (2019) Post-socialist transition: Between Conflicts and Legacy [Panel organization]. In: UrbanHIst- Interpreting the History of 20th Century Urbanism, 20-24 October 2019, Wenner Green Center, Stockholm, organised by Blekinge Tekniska Hogsköla Karlskrona, Sweden.

Postmodern Architecture across the Borders

Urban, Florian (2021) Postmodern Architecture across the Borders. In: Postmodern Architecture Across the Borders (invited online lecture), 18 January 2021, Politeknika Poznanska, Department of Architecture (online), Poznan, Poland.

Postmodern Architecture and Political Change

Urban, Florian (2019) Postmodern Architecture and Political Change. In: Postmodern Architecture and Political Change - Poland and Beyond, 12-14 November 2019, German Historical Institute, Warsaw.

Postmodern Architecture in Poland

Urban, Florian (2018) Postmodern Architecture in Poland. In: Public Lecture Series at the German Historical Institute, 28 November 2018, German Historical Institute, Warsaw.

Postmodern Architecture in Poland – Meaning and Appropriation under Late Socialism

Urban, Florian (2018) Postmodern Architecture in Poland – Meaning and Appropriation under Late Socialism. In: European Architectural History Network (EAHN), annual conference, Tallinn, 13-17 June 2018, Tallinn, Estonia.

The Postmodern City in the German Democratic Republic

Urban, Florian (2017) The Postmodern City in the German Democratic Republic. In: The Ins and Outs of Socialism, 25-27 August 2017, Centre for the Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine.

The Postmodern Old Town of Elbląg

Urban, Florian (2021) The Postmodern Old Town of Elbląg. In: Histories of Urban Design – Global Trajectories and Local Realities, 15-17 November 2021, ETH Zurich.

Postmodern architecture in Socialist Poland

Urban, Florian (2019) Postmodern architecture in Socialist Poland. In: Mackintosh Research Symposium, 24 April 2019, The Glasgow School of Art.

Postmoderne als Konsens: Neo-historistischer Wiederaufbau im Ost-Berliner Nikolaiviertel 1977-1989

Urban, Florian (2010) Postmoderne als Konsens: Neo-historistischer Wiederaufbau im Ost-Berliner Nikolaiviertel 1977-1989. In: Rebuilding European Cities: Reconstruction-Policy since 1945, 2010, University of Hamburg, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Germany.

Postmodernism Beyond the Neoliberal Turn (Keynote Lecture)

Urban, Florian (2022) Postmodernism Beyond the Neoliberal Turn (Keynote Lecture). In: Fictitious Capital - Postmodernism and the Built Environment - Fourth Annual International Symposium of the Avie and Sarah Arenson Built Heritage Research Center at Technion Haifa, 23-25 March 2022, Technion Haifa, Israel.

Postmodernism in Europe between Unlimited Growth and Ecological Awareness

Urban, Florian (2022) Postmodernism in Europe between Unlimited Growth and Ecological Awareness. In: Annual PhD Colloquium, Department of Architecture, TU Delft, 4-5 July 2022, Delft, Netherlands.

Postmodernism in Europe: between Unlimited Growth and Ecological Awareness

Urban, Florian (2022) Postmodernism in Europe: between Unlimited Growth and Ecological Awareness. In: Denkmal Postmoderne [monument postmodernism], 3-5 March 2021, Bauhaus University Weimar.

Postmodernism in Europe: between Unlimited Growth and Ecological Awareness

Urban, Florian (2022) Postmodernism in Europe: between Unlimited Growth and Ecological Awareness. In: Public Lecture Series, 07 December 2022, Berlin International School of Applied Science.

Postmodernism in Poland - an Architecture of Resistance?

Urban, Florian (2018) Postmodernism in Poland - an Architecture of Resistance? In: po.mo.stroika – Postmodern Theories, Practices, and Histories in Central and Eastern Europe, 17-18 May 2018, Balassi Hungarian Institute, Berlin.

Postsozialistische Stadt – Räumliche Politik und die Wiedereinführung kapitalistischer Verhältnisse (The postsocialist city - spatial politics and the reintroduction of capitalist conditions - comment)

Urban, Florian (2021) Postsozialistische Stadt – Räumliche Politik und die Wiedereinführung kapitalistischer Verhältnisse (The postsocialist city - spatial politics and the reintroduction of capitalist conditions - comment). In: Conference: "Räumliche Planung und politische Herrschaftsformen", 9-11 December 2021, Institute for European Urbanism, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.

Presentation and Panel Chair at the Conference "High-Tech Heritage - Impermanence of Innovation" at ETH Zurich

Urban, Florian (2023) Presentation and Panel Chair at the Conference "High-Tech Heritage - Impermanence of Innovation" at ETH Zurich. In: High-Tech Architecture - Impermanence of Innovation, 14-16 September 2023, ETH Zurich.

Public Housing in European Cities

Urban, Florian (2012) Public Housing in European Cities. In: the Lecture Series European Urbanism, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany.

The Regeneration of Elbląg

Urban, Florian (2018) The Regeneration of Elbląg. In: “35 Years Regeneration of Elbląg”, 28 November 2018, Galeria L, Elbląg, Poland.

Reinventing Industrial Glasgow

Urban, Florian (2011) Reinventing Industrial Glasgow. In: Port City Networks, August 2011, Hamburg.

The Reinvention of Industrial Glasgow

Urban, Florian (2011) The Reinvention of Industrial Glasgow. In: Annual Conference of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH), November 2011, Baltimore.

‘The Slab’ in East Germany - an Ambivalent Heritage

Urban, Florian (2017) ‘The Slab’ in East Germany - an Ambivalent Heritage. In: How Long are New Towns New? European Post-War New Towns as Authentic Places in a Comparative Perspective, 23-24 February 2017, Potsdam, Germany.

Teaching Energy Awareness

Urban, Florian (2021) Teaching Energy Awareness. In: Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB), 9th - 18th June 2021, University of Cambridge (online).

Tower Blocks - Brush them up or knock them down?

Urban, Florian (2012) Tower Blocks - Brush them up or knock them down? In: Red Road Underground - A Series Public Lecture at the New Glasgow Society, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow.

Tower Blocks - a methodological challenge

Urban, Florian (2018) Tower Blocks - a methodological challenge. In: Tower Block UK - Closing Event, organised by by the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies at the University of Edinburgh in Collaboration with Docomomo Scotland, 12 June 2018, Minto House, University of Edinburgh.

Tower and Slab - Public Lecture at Columbia University

Urban, Florian (2013) Tower and Slab - Public Lecture at Columbia University. In: Lecture Series in the Department of History at Columbia University, Columbia University - Lehman Center for American History
406 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027.

Tower and Slab – Global Mass Housing

Urban, Florian (2011) Tower and Slab – Global Mass Housing. In: Lecture Series in the Department of History at Fordham University, November 2011, New York.

Urban History Association Book Forum: "Afterlives of Public Housing: A Comparative Conversation"

Urban, Florian (2021) Urban History Association Book Forum: "Afterlives of Public Housing: A Comparative Conversation". In: Urban History Association Book Forum, 2nd October 2021, Chicago and Los Angeles (Online).

Urban Restructuring in Europe since the 1970s

Urban, Florian (2012) Urban Restructuring in Europe since the 1970s. In: Conference of the International Planning History Society in Sao Paulo (July 2012).

Vivienda social en los dos estados alemanes

Urban, Florian (2010) Vivienda social en los dos estados alemanes. In: Vivir y pensar la comunidad moderna: historia y memorias de la vivienda social, 1938-1968, 2001, Universidad de Puerto Rico, School of Architecture, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The housing estate Märkisches Viertel in Berlin – 50 years of struggle over a concrete utopia

Urban, Florian (2017) The housing estate Märkisches Viertel in Berlin – 50 years of struggle over a concrete utopia. In: Concrete Utopias, 12-13 May 2017, Liverpool.

Visualizing Traces of Destruction

Urban, Florian and Platt, Christopher (2016) Visualizing Traces of Destruction. In: 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, 7-9 April 2016, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Thesis

The Invention of the Historic City – Building the Past in East Berlin 1970-1990

Urban, Florian (2006) The Invention of the Historic City – Building the Past in East Berlin 1970-1990. PhD thesis, MIT/Berlin Technical University.

Other

Organization of the Conference "Back to the City - Urbanity, Density, Housing 1976-2016"

Urban, Florian (2016) Organization of the Conference "Back to the City - Urbanity, Density, Housing 1976-2016". The Glasgow School of Art.