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Dr. Andreas Wesener
Lincoln University, New Zealand

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Dr Andreas Wesener is a Senior Lecturer in urban design at Lincoln University (New Zealand). He studied architecture at the Hochschule Bochum (Germany), the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London (UK), and was awarded his doctorate from the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar (Germany). Wesener has worked as an architect and urban designer in the private sector, as a research associate for Birmingham City University, and as a research fellow for the Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development (ILS) in Germany. He has taught at universities across England, Belgium and Germany. Wesener’s research focusses on the interplay between social, political, and economic processes, human experiences and the physical built environment. He investigates processes, structures and meanings that characterize urban environments in times of rapid transition. By analysing the manifold issues connected to transformative urban landscapes, he explores innovative approaches for more sustainable and resilient cities.

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Research article
Published: 04 April 2021 in Applied Mobilities
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The paper explores a user-centred methodology for collecting, categorising, visualising, and interpreting data on urban cycling infrastructure and related cycling events. It develops a mobile mixed methods approach combining audio, video, sensor, and geospatial data sources. The method responds to stakeholders’ feedback and related concerns about negotiating engineering, landscape and urban design, planning and policy elements in a way that addresses cyclists’ needs. It is tested in a pilot study that combines infrastructure monitoring and perception data collection on eight newly built Major Cycle Routes in Christchurch, New Zealand. Data from one Major Cycle Route is used to explore methods of data categorisation, visualisation and interpretation. Based on the results of the pilot study, the paper discusses potential methodological changes or additions. It suggests future research opportunities and potential applications of the proposed methodology to support stakeholders’ efforts to advance the planning, design and implementation of urban cycleways.

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Andreas Wesener; Suzanne Vallance; Maike Tesch; Sarah Edwards; Jillian Frater; Richard Moreham. A mobile sense of place: exploring a novel mixed methods user-centred approach to capturing data on urban cycling infrastructure. Applied Mobilities 2021, 1 -25.

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Andreas Wesener, Suzanne Vallance, Maike Tesch, Sarah Edwards, Jillian Frater, Richard Moreham. A mobile sense of place: exploring a novel mixed methods user-centred approach to capturing data on urban cycling infrastructure. Applied Mobilities. 2021; ():1-25.

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Andreas Wesener; Suzanne Vallance; Maike Tesch; Sarah Edwards; Jillian Frater; Richard Moreham. 2021. "A mobile sense of place: exploring a novel mixed methods user-centred approach to capturing data on urban cycling infrastructure." Applied Mobilities , no. : 1-25.

Journal article
Published: 21 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Substantial environmental impacts and loss of resilience occurs with conventional vineyard designs characterized by monotonous specialized production. Studies support the restoration of green infrastructure (GI) and introduction of other production systems as promising biodiversity design strategies. However, little is known about the degree to which winegrowers are implementing them. We surveyed Willamette valley, Oregon, certified sustainable winegrowers as potential early adopters of innovative biodiversity design strategies. Results revealed growers were implementing up to 11 different types of GI components, providing them with up to 16 different ecosystem services, and six disservices. The GI was implemented at three spatial scales, with growers pursuing a sharing GI design strategy at fine scales, and a sharing and sparing strategy at intermediate and farm-wide scales. Only biodynamic certified farmers had implemented valued additional production systems. Growers can improve the implementation of their biodiversity GI designs by adopting an integrated multi-system whole farm design approach. Key enablers for grower implementation of GI and/or additional production systems included: (1) Grower awareness and value of strategy’s ecosystem services and functions, (2) grower knowledge of their design and management, (3) certifier requirements for GI, (4) availability of land incapable of growing quality grapes, (5) availability of GI backup systems in case of failure, (6) low risk of regional pest outbreaks, (7) premium wine prices, and (8) strong grower environmental and cultural heritage ethics. Further research is required to identify effective ways to advance these enablers among growers, and within certification and government programmes, to improve the implementation of these strategies among growers.

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Wendy McWilliam; Andreas Wesener. Attitudes and Behaviours of Certified Winegrowers towards the Design and Implementation of Biodiversity Farming Strategies. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1083 .

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Wendy McWilliam, Andreas Wesener. Attitudes and Behaviours of Certified Winegrowers towards the Design and Implementation of Biodiversity Farming Strategies. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1083.

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Wendy McWilliam; Andreas Wesener. 2021. "Attitudes and Behaviours of Certified Winegrowers towards the Design and Implementation of Biodiversity Farming Strategies." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1083.

Book chapter
Published: 31 December 2020 in Urban Resilience in a Global Context
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Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in times of extreme global insecurity; for others, it is a neoliberal technology that marginalizes the voices of already marginal peoples. This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, narratives and temporalities that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban resilience, this volume unlocks the potential of this concept to build more sustainable, inclusive, and secure cities in the 21st century.

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Andreas Wesener. Growing Resilient Cities. Urban Resilience in a Global Context 2020, 77 -100.

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Andreas Wesener. Growing Resilient Cities. Urban Resilience in a Global Context. 2020; ():77-100.

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Andreas Wesener. 2020. "Growing Resilient Cities." Urban Resilience in a Global Context , no. : 77-100.

Journal article
Published: 12 November 2020 in Sustainability
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There is a high and growing incidence of skin cancer associated with overexposure to the sun. Most of a person’s exposure occurs during their first eighteen years of life. While many children are taught to wear hats and sunscreen, studies indicate these are inadequate. There is a pressing need to improve the design of our landscapes to reduce exposure. Landscape architects can play a key role in driving this process, but only if they understand the factors determining sun protection behaviours among children in the landscape, and how to design for these. We introduced a systematic evidence-based teaching approach to landscape architecture students in New Zealand where the incidence of skin cancer is one of the highest in the world. In this paper, we describe the methods we used to integrate scientific information into a creative design process that included four design phases: (1) review, summary and translation of evidential theory into design guidelines; (2) inventory and analysis of existing schoolyard; (3) redesign of schoolyard; and (4) final design evaluation. We found this process was effective in developing student appreciation for the need to improve sun protection through design, for increasing their understanding of the evidential science, in addition to developing their ability to translate, often inaccessible, evidential data into its spatial form implications. Furthermore, the process led to a high degree of confidence and pride among many students as their resulting design solutions were not only supported by evidence but were often highly creative. Such evidence-based design courses are essential for preparing future landscape architects to design landscapes that significantly reduce the incidence and health effects of skin cancer.

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Wendy McWilliam; Andreas Wesener; Anupriya Sukumar; Robert Brown. Reducing the Incidence of Skin Cancer through Landscape Architecture Design Education. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9402 .

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Wendy McWilliam, Andreas Wesener, Anupriya Sukumar, Robert Brown. Reducing the Incidence of Skin Cancer through Landscape Architecture Design Education. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9402.

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Wendy McWilliam; Andreas Wesener; Anupriya Sukumar; Robert Brown. 2020. "Reducing the Incidence of Skin Cancer through Landscape Architecture Design Education." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9402.

Journal article
Published: 16 January 2020 in Sustainability
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The paper examines factors that support or obstruct the development of urban community garden projects. It combines a systematic scholarly literature review with empirical research from case studies located in New Zealand and Germany. The findings are discussed against the backdrop of placemaking processes: urban community gardens are valuable platforms to observe space-to-place transformations. Following a social-constructionist approach, literature-informed enablers and barriers for the development of urban community gardens are analysed against perceived notions informed by local interviewees with regard to their biophysical and technical, socio-cultural and economic, and political and administrative dimensions. These dimensions are incorporated into a systematic and comprehensive category system. This approach helps observe how the essential biophysical-material base of the projects is overlaid with socio-cultural factors and shaped by governmental or administrative regulations. Perceptual differences become evident and are discussed through the lens of different actors.

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Andreas Wesener; Runrid Fox-Kämper; Martin Sondermann; Daniel Münderlein. Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens. Sustainability 2020, 12, 657 .

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Andreas Wesener, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Martin Sondermann, Daniel Münderlein. Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):657.

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Andreas Wesener; Runrid Fox-Kämper; Martin Sondermann; Daniel Münderlein. 2020. "Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 657.

Conference paper
Published: 10 June 2019 in SHS Web of Conferences
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The paper discusses phenomenological fieldwork carried out by third- and fourth-year students enrolled in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture programme at the School of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University. It focuses on students’ sensory experiences while surveying a lively inner-urban street in Wellington, New Zealand, and discusses related (objective) circumstances, sensations and interpretations. Students were asked to describe their experiences while moving through the street and to record them in a field book in the form of notes and sketches. The goal of the paper is to capture, analyse and discuss students’ individual experiences of different atmospheric facets of an urban streetscape. Preliminary findings are presented and discussed.

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Andreas Wesener. The atmosphere of a street: Experimental fieldwork on urban ambiances. SHS Web of Conferences 2019, 64, 01016 .

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Andreas Wesener. The atmosphere of a street: Experimental fieldwork on urban ambiances. SHS Web of Conferences. 2019; 64 ():01016.

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Andreas Wesener. 2019. "The atmosphere of a street: Experimental fieldwork on urban ambiances." SHS Web of Conferences 64, no. : 01016.

Review
Published: 03 May 2019 in Urban Science
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Residential streets, particularly in automobile-dependent suburban locations, have frequently been perceived as ecologically unsustainable, antisocial, unhealthy, and aesthetically dull from an urban design perspective. However, residential streets can be improved through infrastructure retrofits, particularly by combining green and grey infrastructures and integrating various functions and services. Using a systematic literature review and an adapted landscape services framework, the paper analyses the status of retrofit research and discusses existing composition and spatial integration of green, grey, and green-grey street infrastructure. Findings suggest changing infrastructure compositions in residential streets and a trend toward increased grey and green-grey infrastructure integration. However, functional connectivity is often lacking, and while barriers to implementation have been suggested, few have been tested. While retrofits are potentially able to increase the number and quality of landscape services that support human well-being, more—and possibly longitudinal—research is required to advance and analyze their implementation and provide evidence for their success.

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Ksenia I. Aleksandrova; Wendy J. McWilliam; Andreas Wesener. Status and Future Directions for Residential Street Infrastructure Retrofit Research. Urban Science 2019, 3, 49 .

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Ksenia I. Aleksandrova, Wendy J. McWilliam, Andreas Wesener. Status and Future Directions for Residential Street Infrastructure Retrofit Research. Urban Science. 2019; 3 (2):49.

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Ksenia I. Aleksandrova; Wendy J. McWilliam; Andreas Wesener. 2019. "Status and Future Directions for Residential Street Infrastructure Retrofit Research." Urban Science 3, no. 2: 49.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2019 in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
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Naomi Shimpo; Andreas Wesener; Wendy McWilliam. How community gardens may contribute to community resilience following an earthquake. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 2019, 38, 124 -132.

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Naomi Shimpo, Andreas Wesener, Wendy McWilliam. How community gardens may contribute to community resilience following an earthquake. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 2019; 38 ():124-132.

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Naomi Shimpo; Andreas Wesener; Wendy McWilliam. 2019. "How community gardens may contribute to community resilience following an earthquake." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 38, no. : 124-132.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2018 in Landscape and Urban Planning
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Runrid Fox-Kämper; Andreas Wesener; Daniel Münderlein; Martin Sondermann; Wendy McWilliam; Nick Kirk. Urban community gardens: An evaluation of governance approaches and related enablers and barriers at different development stages. Landscape and Urban Planning 2018, 170, 59 -68.

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Runrid Fox-Kämper, Andreas Wesener, Daniel Münderlein, Martin Sondermann, Wendy McWilliam, Nick Kirk. Urban community gardens: An evaluation of governance approaches and related enablers and barriers at different development stages. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2018; 170 ():59-68.

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Runrid Fox-Kämper; Andreas Wesener; Daniel Münderlein; Martin Sondermann; Wendy McWilliam; Nick Kirk. 2018. "Urban community gardens: An evaluation of governance approaches and related enablers and barriers at different development stages." Landscape and Urban Planning 170, no. : 59-68.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2017 in URBAN DESIGN International
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The paper explores concepts of temporary public open space and related notions of urbanity in a post-earthquake urban environment. The sudden absence of the familiar physical urban constituents, the built environment and public open spaces, is an extreme and disturbing experience. The residents of Christchurch (New Zealand) have been in such a situation since 2010/11 when a major earthquake and a series of devastating aftershocks turned the city centre into rubble. Following the earthquakes, Christchurch has become a “transitional” city characterized by ongoing demolitions, new constructions and temporary urban spaces that keep on changing as time passes. The paper examines students’ design proposals for a temporary public open space in Christchurch’s post-earthquake city centre and explores concepts of urbanity in a post-disaster situation where defining spatial components such as adjacent buildings do not exist anymore.

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Andreas Wesener. How to contribute to urbanity when the city centre is gone: a design-directed exploration of temporary public open space and related notions of urbanity in a post-disaster urban environment. URBAN DESIGN International 2017, 23, 165 -181.

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Andreas Wesener. How to contribute to urbanity when the city centre is gone: a design-directed exploration of temporary public open space and related notions of urbanity in a post-disaster urban environment. URBAN DESIGN International. 2017; 23 (3):165-181.

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Andreas Wesener. 2017. "How to contribute to urbanity when the city centre is gone: a design-directed exploration of temporary public open space and related notions of urbanity in a post-disaster urban environment." URBAN DESIGN International 23, no. 3: 165-181.

Original articles
Published: 19 September 2016 in International Journal of Heritage Studies
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The paper discusses notions and experiences of authenticity of place in relation to intangible cultural heritage. Drawing on qualitative informant interviews with representatives of traditional and new businesses in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham (UK), it analyses authenticity of place with regard to three key dimensions: the experience of origins, the experience of continuity and the experience of potentiality and actuality. Findings suggest that intangible cultural heritage activates and facilitates experiences of authenticity, often related to people’s individual identity constructs and associated benefits or detriments. Some heritage concepts have evolved from their narrowly defined historic context and inform experiences of authenticity in the present.

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Andreas Wesener. Adopting ‘things of the little’: intangible cultural heritage and experiential authenticity of place in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. International Journal of Heritage Studies 2016, 23, 141 -155.

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Andreas Wesener. Adopting ‘things of the little’: intangible cultural heritage and experiential authenticity of place in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 2016; 23 (2):141-155.

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Andreas Wesener. 2016. "Adopting ‘things of the little’: intangible cultural heritage and experiential authenticity of place in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham." International Journal of Heritage Studies 23, no. 2: 141-155.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2016
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Andreas Wesener. Weiterbauen historisch geprägter Stadtstrukturen: Die Qualität des Einfügens im städtebaulichen Kontext. 2016, 1 .

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Andreas Wesener. Weiterbauen historisch geprägter Stadtstrukturen: Die Qualität des Einfügens im städtebaulichen Kontext. . 2016; ():1.

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Andreas Wesener. 2016. "Weiterbauen historisch geprägter Stadtstrukturen: Die Qualität des Einfügens im städtebaulichen Kontext." , no. : 1.

Articles
Published: 26 November 2015 in Journal of Urban Design
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Discourses about authenticity of place have gained relevance in recent years and are of increasing importance for urban designers. The paper discusses notions and experiences of authenticity of place in relation to the urban built environment and analyzes concepts of ‘experiential’ authenticity in the form of three key dimensions: the experience of origins, the experience of continuity, and the experience of potentiality and actuality. Drawing on qualitative informant interviews in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham (UK), the paper examines how business representatives experienced authenticity of place in relation to architecture and urban design, with a particular focus on individual identity constructions.

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Andreas Wesener. ‘This place feels authentic’: exploring experiences of authenticity of place in relation to the urban built environment in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. Journal of Urban Design 2015, 21, 67 -83.

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Andreas Wesener. ‘This place feels authentic’: exploring experiences of authenticity of place in relation to the urban built environment in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. Journal of Urban Design. 2015; 21 (1):67-83.

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Andreas Wesener. 2015. "‘This place feels authentic’: exploring experiences of authenticity of place in relation to the urban built environment in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham." Journal of Urban Design 21, no. 1: 67-83.

Papers
Published: 08 July 2015 in Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability
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Temporary uses of vacant urban spaces are usually not foreseen in conventional urban planning and have often been linked to economic or political disturbances. In New Zealand, Christchurch’s vacant spaces came into existence after the city was hit by several devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. Parallel to the ‘official’ rebuild discourse, temporary uses have emerged on vacant post-earthquake sites including community gardens, urban agriculture, art installations, event venues, eateries and cafés, and pocket parks. Based on the review and analysis of exemplary transitional community-initiated open spaces and correlated literature, the paper looks at how the post-disaster urban context in Christchurch has influenced particular aspects of temporary urbanism in comparison with case studies in non-disaster environments. By focusing on the anticipated benefits of community-initiated open spaces, the paper discusses the relevance of temporary uses of vacant urban spaces for urban sustainability in relationship to concepts of community resilience and raises questions about possible long-term values.

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Andreas Wesener. Temporary urbanism and urban sustainability after a natural disaster: transitional community-initiated open spaces in Christchurch, New Zealand. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 2015, 8, 406 -422.

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Andreas Wesener. Temporary urbanism and urban sustainability after a natural disaster: transitional community-initiated open spaces in Christchurch, New Zealand. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 2015; 8 (4):406-422.

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Andreas Wesener. 2015. "Temporary urbanism and urban sustainability after a natural disaster: transitional community-initiated open spaces in Christchurch, New Zealand." Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 8, no. 4: 406-422.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2014
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Andreas Wesener. Public construction in the area of conflict between governance and representation: The architectural-cultural handling of town halls in Germany,öffentliches Bauen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Governance und Repräsentation: Der baukulturelle Umgang mit Rathäusern in Deutschland. 2014, 1 .

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Andreas Wesener. Public construction in the area of conflict between governance and representation: The architectural-cultural handling of town halls in Germany,öffentliches Bauen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Governance und Repräsentation: Der baukulturelle Umgang mit Rathäusern in Deutschland. . 2014; ():1.

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Andreas Wesener. 2014. "Public construction in the area of conflict between governance and representation: The architectural-cultural handling of town halls in Germany,öffentliches Bauen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Governance und Repräsentation: Der baukulturelle Umgang mit Rathäusern in Deutschland." , no. : 1.