Carola Hein

Professor History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology and Professor at Leiden and Erasmus University. and director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus PortCityFutures Centre. UNESCO Chair of Water, Ports and Historic Cities.

Carola Hein has published widely in the field of architectural, urban and planning history, tying historical analysis to contemporary development. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. She has (co)led several European projects and work packages, including the COST Action Port City Territories in Action and a work package in Bauhaus of the Sea Sails. She works on diverse flows in port cities and territories, focusing on the importance of long-term development and path dependencies. Her research combines archival research, GIS-based analysis and research by design activities in education. Recently she has focused on water and heritage, spearheading the peer reviewed open access journal Blue Papers and other capacity building tools.

Last publications

Her recent (co-)edited books and monographs include:

1. Hein, Carola, John Hanna (2024) Design Pedagogies at a Time of Crisis. CPCL
2. Birgit Schneider, Beate Löffler, Tino Mager, Carola Hein (eds) (2023): Mixing Methods. An Agenda for the Humanities in the Digital Age. https://www.bielefeld-university-press.org/978-3-8376-6913-8/mixing-methods/
3. Hein, Carola, Yvonne van Mil, Lucija Azman Momirski (2023), Port City Atlas: Mapping European Port City Territories: From Understanding to Design, nai010. https://www.nai010.com/en/publicaties/port-city-atlas/246049
4. Hein, Carola (ed) (2022), Oil Spaces: The Global Petroleumscape, Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/Oil-Spaces-Exploring-the-Global-Petroleumscape/Hein/p/book/9780367417499
5. Couling, Nancy and Carola Hein (eds) (2020) The Urbanisation of the Sea: From Concepts and Analysis to Design, nai010/BK Open, https://books.bk.tudelft.nl/index.php/press/catalog/view/778/888/854-1
6. Hein, Carola (ed.) (2020) Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage, Springer. https://books.google.de/books/aboutAdaptive_Strategies_for_Water_Heritage.htmlid=P423DwAAQBAJ&
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7. Hein, Carola (ed.) (2018) Planning History Handbook, New York, Routledge. (Winner IPHS Special Book Prize)
8. Hein, Carola (ed.) (2011): Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks London: Routledge.

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