Eliane Schmid is a doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), researching the development and role of public urban green spaces in the port cities of Hamburg and Marseille post-World War II. Her interests focus on urban (re-)building and planning as well as migration in the decolonization and postcolonial period. She consults theories from spatial, planning and (trans-)urban history, as well as human geography while applying GIS (Geographic Information Systems) as a tool for analysis and visualization.
Background: BA in History and English Literature from University of Zurich and MA in History and Philosophy of Knowledge from ETH Zurich.
Publications:
Schmid, Eliane. 2024. “Reassembling Marseille’s Mosaic: Urban Planning in Service of a Post-World War II Imagined Identity.” Planning Perspectives, July, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2024.2371948.
Schmid, Eliane. 2023. Review: "Géographie et impérialisme: De la Suisse au Congo entre exploration géographique et conquête coloniale” by Fabio Rossinelli. Journal of Historical Geography. 81. 53–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2023.05.002.
