Hi, I’m Ute Meyer, urbanist, researcher and founder of urbanes.land.
I live and work in Stuttgart and Biberach.
Architect and Urban Designer
LSE Master in Cities
Ute Margarete Meyer is Professor of Urban Design and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Energy Engineering and at Biberach University of Applied Sciences. Inside and outside the academic realm Ute has established an innovative practice at the interface of research and impact driven profession. In 2018 she has launched the urbanes.land initiative with Martin Spalek to develop future perspectives for urban/rural territories and metropolitan fringes. The approach combines spatial, finance and governance aspects.
Ute has studied in Stuttgart, Rome, New York City and London and holds Master degrees from Columbia University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has lead research projects for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), the Future City Initiative, Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg and the Wüstenrot Foundation, among others. Ute is a member of HfG Ulm Foundation’s Board of Trustees, the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning (DASL), the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the global LSE Cities Network.
Current research and innovative practise
Co-Initiator Transform by Design _ Islands of Change in the Danube
Researcher Stadt und Land gemeinsam denken _Agents of regional transformation in South West Germany
Project Lead Under construction _ Action, reflection and communication in a productive Stuttgart Metropolitan Region
Publications
Meyer, U. Spalek, M. (2021). Temperatures of urbanity, in: topos 114/fringes, Callwey, Munich
Meyer, U. Spalek, M. (2020).Framing the edges – Potentials of urbanised territories along mobility infrastructures, in: topos 110/mobility, Callwey, Munich
Jessen, J., Meyer, U., Schneider, J. (2008). stadtmachen.eu | Urbanity and the Planning Culture in Europe. Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart/Zurich
Meyer, U., Schneider, J. (2008). Ikonen der Dichte, in: GAM Architecture Magazine 05, TU Graz (Ed.), Vienna/New York
Meyer, U., Schneider, J. (2006). Vote for Space, in: Ott, M., Uhl, E.(Ed.): Das Denken des Raums in Zeiten der Globalisierung, LIT Muenster