PD Dr. Matthias Bernt

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Matthias Bernt is the acting head of the research focus "Politics and Planning" and an adjunct lecturer at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

After studying political science at the Free University of Berlin and working as a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Rostock, Matthias Bernt received his doctorate in July 2001 with a dissertation on Berlin's urban renewal policy. In 2021, he habilitated in sociology with an international comparative study on the connections between gentrification and public policies.

From 2001 to 2008, Matthias Bernt worked as a research associate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, where he focused on issues related to the development of shrinking cities. Matthias Bernt has been working as a research associate at the IRS since 2008. Here he has worked both as project coordinator for several national and international research projects and as a senior scientist involved in lead and bridge project research. His particular research interest the governance of urban development.

Since 1998, Matthias Bernt has held teaching positions at various German universities, most recently at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. He served as Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research from 2014 to 2021, as well as a member of the board of the Research Committee 21 on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association and deputy speaker of the Urban and Regional Sociology Section in the German Sociological Association. Visits abroad have included Columbia University of New York City, University College of London, and the European University of St. Petersburg.

Projects

Ongoing Lead Projects

Lead project 01/2019 - 12/2021

Migration: Governance-Dilemmas of Cities

As one of the most pressing issue of our times, immigration has gained particular relevance at the local level. The recent increase of refugee migration to Germany has instigated new negotiation processes in urban policy and planning. At the national level, the transition of Germany into an immigration country is envisaged by the government, and a new immigration law is underway to create new legal pathways for labour migration. Simultaneously, immigration has become a central focus of the mobilisation for new right-wing parties and movements. These current conflicts over immigration lead to a multiplicity of new dilemmas for municipal decision makers. Consequently, this research project investigates how urban migration policies are negotiated and formulated, which actors participate in policy formulation and how migration-related segregation tendencies are addressed. more info

Lead project 01/2022 - 12/2025

Conflicts in Planning: Major Projects and their Potential for Institutional Change

The project examines large-scale projects as profound disruptions that shake the well-rehearsed routines of institutions and can lead to institutional change. The project examines the large-scale project of the Tesla settlement in comparison to other case studies with regard to disruptive effects on policy and planning and thus tests the transferability of the term disruption to policy and planning research. more info

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 07/2018 - 06/2023

This project, secured in cooperation with the University of Łódź, thematises various paths in the development of a number of neighbourhoods in both cities following the change of system over 25 years ago. The scientists strive to provide both new findings about the interplay of institutional contexts and socio-spatial differentiation processes, as well as about post-socialist urban development in Middle and Eastern Europe. more info

Third-party funded project 07/2018 - 11/2021

Estates After Transition (EAT)

The research aims at studying recent challenges in the development of large housing estates in postsocialist cities. It is based on a comparative approach and includes six case studies in Estonia, Germany, and Russia. Resarch on the neighbourhoods Halle-Neustadt and Berlin-Marzahn will be conducted by the IRS. Thereby, the project focuses on actors, their interests and resources and observes the consequences of their constellations for the development of housing estates. more info

Third-party funded project 10/2018 - 03/2019

2. Fortschreibung der kleinräumlichen Untersuchung sozialstruktureller Veränderungen in Halle (Saale)

Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender sozialräumlicher Segregation beauftragte die Stadt Halle (Saale) das IRS mit der statistischen Analyse kleinräumlicher sozialräumlicher Veränderungen im Stadtgebiet für den Zeitraum 2014 bis 2017. Ziel der Studie ist es herauszufinden, ob bestimmte Teilgebiete Halles in besonderem Maße durch soziale Problemlagen geprägt sind, und ob der Abstand zwischen diesen Gebieten und dem „Durchschnitt“ Halles zurückgeht oder wächst. more info

Third-party funded project 05/2019 - 09/2022

From Shrinkage to Immigration. New Perspectives for Peripheral Large Housing Estates (StadtumMig)

The joint project examines potentials and problems of former urban redevelopment neighbourhoods ("Stadtumbauquartiere") in transition to arrival neighbourhoods for immigrants. The joint project is divided into five sub-projects. Sub-project 1 "Governance" is being worked on at the IRS. It examines planning principles and actor constellations in the cities of Cottbus, Schwerin and Halle (Saale) to enable better governance of change by municipal actors. more info

Third-party funded project 10/2022 - 09/2024

From Shrinkage to Immigration. New Perspectives for Peripheral Large Housing Estates (StadtumMig) - Implementation and Consolidation Phase (StadtumMig II)

Germany has officially been a country of immigration since 2005. Ten years later, the arrival and reception of Syrian civil war refugees, as well as the current arrival of Ukrainian refugees, have shown how much the state and society have changed. Since May 2019, the joint project StadtumMig I has been examining these changes in selected large housing estates in three eastern German cities. Building on these results, the second phase of the project will work on central challenges in the municipalities in greater depth. more info

Third-party funded project 01/2023 - 06/2023

Housing Policy under the Conditions of Financialization. The Impact of Institutional Investors on Affordable Housing in European Cities (HoPoFin)

The study examines the relationship between the lack of affordable housing, the increasing importance of institutional investors and the limited effectiveness of policy programmes to address the housing crisis in seven European cities. The research focuses on three questions: a) What influence do institutional investors have on the supply of affordable housing? b) Which housing policy strategies and measures to regulate and/or promote or cooperate with institutional investors can be observed? and c) How do policy-making processes in relation to institutional investors shape up? more info

Ongoing Cross-departmental Projects

Cross-departmental project 01/2022 - 12/2025

Disruption and Spatial Development: Concepts on Spatio-temporal Dynamics, Modes of Perception and Strategies for Action

The bridge project "Disruption and spatial development: concepts on spatio-temporal dynamics, modes of perception and strategies of action" continues the conceptual elaboration of the disruption heuristic, uses it to interpret empirical findings in the lead project research (and beyond) and, conversely, incorporates suggestions from the empirical research of the lead projects into the further conceptual development. more info

Completed Qualification Projects

Feodor Lynen Stipendium für erfahrene WissenschaftlerInnen

Selected Publications by Year

2024

Bernt, M., & Volkmann, A. (2024). Suburbanization in East Germany. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231218612

2023

Bernt, M., & Volkmann, A. (2023). Residential Segregation. Encyclopedia, 3 (4), 1401-1408. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia3040100

Bernt, M., & Holm, A. (2023). Berlin: Financialisation in a Regulated Market. In A. Holm, G. Alexandri, & M. Bernt (Eds.), Housing Policy under the Conditions of Financialization: The Impact of Institutional Investors on Affordable Housing in European Cities (HoPoFin) (pp. 39-57). SciencePo. https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbaine/sites/sciencespo.fr.ecole-urbaine/files/Rapporthousinghopofin.pdf

Holm, A., Alexandri, G., & Bernt, M. (Eds.) (2023). Housing Policy under the Conditions of Financialization: The Impact of Institutional Investors on Affordable Housing in European Cities (HoPoFin). SciencePo. https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbaine/sites/sciencespo.fr.ecole-urbaine/files/Rapporthousinghopofin.pdf

Bernt, M., & Volkmann, A. (2023). Segregation in Ostdeutschland: Transformationsprozesse, Wohnungsmärkte und Wohnbiographien in Halle (Saale). (Urban Studies). Transcript.

Pilz, M., Keskinkılıç, L., & Bernt, M. (2023). Kommunales Handlungsfeld Integration: Verbundprojekt „Vom Stadtumbauschwerpunkt zum Einwanderungsquartier? Neue Perspektiven für periphere Großwohnsiedlungen“ (StadtumMig). (StadtumMig Working Paper; No. 4.2). https://stadtummig.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WP4.2.-StadtumMig_21_06_23.pdf

Pilz, M., & Bernt, M. (2023). ‚Das korrespondiert mit der Studie‘: Wissensregime der Segregation in den kommunalen Verwaltungen in Schwerin und Halle (Saale). Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde, 96(2), 152-171. https://doi.org/10.25162/bgl-2023-0008

Leetma, K., & Bernt, M. (Eds.) (2023). Housing Estates in the Era of Marketization: Governance Practices and Urban Development. (Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Special Issue; Vol. 38, No. 1). Springer. https://link.springer.com/journal/10901/volumes-and-issues/38-1

Bernt, M., & Holm, A. (2023, Jan 10). Vergesellschaftung senkt Miete: Kurzstudie zu den sozialen Effekten einer möglichen Vergesellschaftung von Wohnungen in Berlin. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Studien/Studie_1-23_Vergesellschaftung.pdf

Bernt, M. (2023). „Das ging ja nur hier…“ – Wohneigentümerstrukturen und Segregation in ostdeutschen Großwohnsiedlungen. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 81(3), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.472

Leetma, K., & Bernt, M. (2023). Special Issue Intro: Housing Estates in the Era of Marketization – Governance Practices and Urban Planning. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 38(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-022-09976-8

Korablyeva, E., Shirobokova, I., Pachenkov, O., & Bernt, M. (2023). Dwelling in Failure: Power and Uncertainty in a Socialist Large Housing Estate Regeneration Program in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 38(1), 85-99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-021-09892-3

2022

Bernt, M., Leetma, K., & Pachenkov, O. (2022, Apr 22). Large Housing Estates in Post-Socialist Cities: Challenges and Perspectives. https://www.blog.urbact.eu/2022/04/large-housing-estates-in-post-socialist-cities-challenges-and-perspectives/

Bernt, M. (2022). Wo wohnen die Geflüchteten und warum? In StadtumMig-Projektteam (Ed.), Vom Stadtumbauschwerpunkt zum Einwanderungsquartier: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für ostdeutsche Großwohnsiedlungen (pp. 25-31). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://doi.org/10.18452/25294

Bernt, M., Pilz, M., & Forschungsverbund StadtumMig (2022, Dec 15). Vom Stadtumbauschwerpunkt zum Einwanderungsquartier: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für ostdeutsche Großwohnsiedlungen. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://doi.org/10.18452/25294

Bernt, M. (2022). The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg. (IJURR-SUSC). Wiley Blackwell.

Bernt, M., El-Kayed, N., Hamann, U., & Keskinkilic, L. (2022). Internal Migration Industries: Shaping the Housing Options for Refugees at the Local Level. Urban Studies, 59(11), 2217–2233. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980211041242

2021

Bernt, M., Leetma, K., & Pachenkov, O. (2021). Large Housing Estates in Post-Socialist Cities: Challenges and Perspectives: Project Summary and Recommendations. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hKK1IKuPNB5HWpY6zKD0D6fJ0MWWJXJK/view?usp=sharing

Bernt, M. (2021). Die Segregationsmaschine: Entmischung in deutschen Großwohnsiedlungen und ihre Ursachen. Die Wohnungswirtschaft, 74(2), 8-11.

Bernt, M., El-Kayed, N., Milstrey, U., & Rößler, S. (2021). Stadtumbau und Migration - Herausforderungen für Großwohnsiedlungen. Planerin, (1), 51-56.

Bernt, M. (2021, Apr 30). Mietenregulierung oder Marktwirtschaft? Die Debatte um den Berliner Mietendeckel schießt zu kurz. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. https://leibniz-irs.de/aktuelles/meldungen/04/standpunkt

Bernt, M., & Holm, A. (2021). Veränderungen der Eigentümerstrukturen auf ostdeutschen Wohnungsmärkten nach 1990. In I-S. Kowalczuk, F. Ebert, & H. Kulick (Eds.), (Ost)Deutschlands Weg: 45 Studien und Essays zur Lage des Landes. Teil I - 1989 bis heute (pp. 509-529). (Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung; No. 10676). Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung.

Bernt, M. (2021). Wohnen in gelichteten Stadtteilen. In F. Eckardt, & S. Meier (Eds.), Handbuch Wohnsoziologie (pp. 347-362). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24862-8_19-1

Marcinczak, S., & Bernt, M. (2021). Immigration, Segregation and Neighborhood Change in Berlin. Cities, 119, [103417]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103417

Riechel, R., Bernt, M., Pilz, M., Keskinkilic, L., Wiegand, A., Rößler, S., Friedrich, K., Milstrey, U., Sinning, H., Hanhörster, H., Hans, N., & Schmiz, A. (2021). Migration und Teilhabe in städtischen Wohnquartieren: Ergebnisse aus dem Fokusthema „Sozialer Zusammenhalt und Migration“ der BMBF-Zukunftsstadtforschung ; Thesen für die Praxis. (Synthese Paper; No. 2). Synthese- und Vernetzungsprojekt Zukunftsstadt. https://www.nachhaltige-zukunftsstadt.de/downloads/SoZusMig_Thesenpapier_final_April2021.pdf

Bernt, M. (2021). Die Grenzen der rent-gap Theorie. In J. Glatter, & M. Mießner (Eds.), Gentrifizierung und Verdrängung: Aktuelle theoretische, methodische und politische Herausforderungen (pp. 91-106). (Interdisziplinäre Wohnungsforschung; Vol. 3). Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839455821

2020

Bernt, M. (2020). Die Herausforderer der Behutsamen Stadterneuerung. In S. Schipper, & L. Vollmer (Eds.), Wohnungsforschung: Ein Reader (pp. 373-392). (Interdisziplinäre Wohnungsforschung; No. 2). Transcript.

Bernt, M., & Holm, A. (2020). Die Ostdeutschlandforschung muss das Wohnen in den Blick nehmen: Plädoyer für eine neue politisch-institutionelle Perspektive auf ostdeutsche Städte. Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, 8(3), 97-114. https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v8i3.593

Bernt, M., & Holm, A. (2020). Den Osten im Blick: Eine Replik. Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, 8(3), 151-156. https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v8i3.643

Bernt, M. (2020). Gentrifizierung zwischen Universalismus und Partikularismus. In I. Breckner, A. Göschel, & U. Matthiesen (Eds.), Stadtsoziologie und Stadtentwicklung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis (pp. 404-414). Nomos.

El-Kayed, N., Bernt, M., Hamann, U., & Pilz, M. (2020). Peripheral Estates as Arrival Spaces? Conceptualising Research on Arrival Functions of New Immigrant Destinations in East Germany. Urban Planning, 5(3), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i3.2932

Bernt, M., Pilz, M., Friedrich, K., Rößler, S., El-Kayed, N., Hamann, U., Milstrey, U., & Nader, T. (2020). Vom Stadtumbauschwerpunkt zum Einwanderungsquartier? Neue Perspektiven für periphere Großwohnsiedlungen: Working Paper 1: Darstellung des Untersuchungsdesigns. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. https://stadtummig.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-03_StadtumMig_Working_Paper_1.pdf

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Bernt, M. (2020). Comparing the Governance of Large Housing Estates in Estonia, Germany, and Russia: What Can be Learned? https://www.estatestransition.org/reports

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Bernt, M. (2020). Governance Analysis. Case Studies Halle-Neustadt and Berlin-Marzahn: Report on Work Package 2 / Research Project "Estates After Transition". https://www.estatestransition.org/reports

https://www.estatestransition.org/reports

2019

Bernt, M. (2019). Sonderfall Südpark? In P. Pasternack (Ed.), Kein Streitfall mehr?: Halle-Neustadt fünf Jahre nach dem Jubiläum (pp. 79-90). Mitteldeutscher Verlag.

Bernt, M. (2019). Migration and Strategic Urban Planning: The Case of Leipzig. disP: The Planning Review, 55(3), 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2019.1671002

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Hillmann, F., Bernt, M., & Calbet Elias, L. (2019). Von den Rändern der Stadt her denken: Das Beispiel Berlin. In Gesucht! Gefunden?: Alte und neue Wohnungsfragen (pp. 141-152). (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / Schriftenreihe; Vol. 10413). Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung. https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/10413_Apuz_Wohnen_ba.pdf

https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/10413_Apuz_Wohnen_ba.pdf

Aalbers, M. B., & Bernt, M. (Eds.) (2019). The Political Economy of Managing Decline and Rightsizing. (Urban Geography, Special Issue; Vol. 40, No. 2). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1524654

Bernt, M. (2019). Estates under Pressure: Financialisation, Shrinkage and State Restructuring and its Consequences for Large-scale Housing Estates in East Germany. In M. Güney, R. Keil, & M. Ücoglu (Eds.), Massive Suburbanization: (Re) Building the Global Periphery One Large Scale Housing Project at a Time (pp. 81-93). University of Toronto Press.

Bernt, M. (2019). Shrinking Cities. In A. M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (Vol. 4, pp. 1807-1809). Wiley Blackwell.

Bernt, M. (2019). ‘Urban Regimes’ and ‘Migration Regimes’: Contradictions, Connections and Potentials. Erdkunde, 73(1), 9-17. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2019.01.03

Kühn, M., & Bernt, M. (2019). Wachsen durch wen? Stadtentwicklungsstrategien in Bremen und Leipzig im Umgang mit Migration. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 77(5), 403-509. https://doi.org/10.2478/rara-2019-0014

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215476

Aalbers, M., & Bernt, M. (2019). The Political Economy of Managing Decline and Rightsizing. Urban Geography, 40(2), 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1524654

Bernt, M. (2019). The Emergence of "Stadtumbau Ost". Urban Geography, 40(2), 174-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1332926

2018

Bernt, M. (2018). Schrumpfung. In H. H. Blotevogel, T. Döring, S. Grotefels, I. Helbrecht, J. Jessen, & C. Schmidt (Eds.), Handwörterbuch der Stadt- und Raumentwicklung (Vol. 4, pp. 2119-2128). Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung.

Hillmann, F., Bernt, M., & Calbet Elias, L. (2018). Von den Rändern der Stadt her denken: Das Beispiel Berlin. In A. Grabener (Ed.), Immobilien-Almanach 01 (2018/2019 ed., pp. 9-19). Grabener.

Bernt, M. (2018). Gentrification between Urban und Rural. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(1), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617752001

Bernt, M., & Förste, D. (2018). The Black Box of Displacement: Do People Remain in their Neighborhoods or Relocate to the Periphery? In I. Helbrecht (Ed.), Gentrification and Resistance: Researching Displacement Processes and Adaption Strategies (pp. 37-57). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20388-7

2017

Bernt, M. (2017). Phased Out, Demolished and Privatized: Social Housing in an Eastgerman Shrinking City. In P. Watt, & P. Smets (Eds.), Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective (pp. 253-276). Emerald Publishers.

Kühn, M., Bernt, M., & Colini, L. (2017). Power, Politics and Peripheralization: Two Eastern German Cities. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(3), 258-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776416637207

Bernt, M., & Milstrey, U. (2017). Quartiere auf Zeit revisited: neue Herausforderungen für Politik und Planung. In U. Altrock, N. Grunze, & S. Kabisch (Eds.), Großwohnsiedlungen im Haltbarkeitscheck: Differenzierte Perspektiven ostdeutscher Großwohnsiedlungen (pp. 145–167). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18579-4_8

Bernt, M. (2017). „Keine unklugen Leute“: Die Durchsetzung des „Stadtumbau Ost“. Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, 5(1/2), 41-60. http://www.zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/article/view/273/456

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http://hdl.handle.net/10419/222249

Hillmann, F., Bernt, M., & Calbet Elias, L. (2017). Von den Rändern der Stadt her denken: Das Beispiel Berlin. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 67(48), 25-31.

Bernt, M., Colini, L., & Förste, D. (2017). Privatization, Financialization and State Restructuring in East Germany: The Case of Am Südpark. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(4), 555-571. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12521

2016

Förste, D., & Bernt, M. (2016). Black Box Verdrängung: Bleiben im Kiez oder Wegzug an den Rand? Kleinräumliche Wanderungen im Zuge von Aufwertungsprozessen in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. In I. Helbrecht (Ed.), Gentrifizierung in Berlin: Verdrängungsprozesse und Bleibestrategien (pp. 45-68). (Urban Studies). Transcript. http://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/36f5cb3ea2d353fe19cbb69d7068c612.pdf

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Bernt, M. (2016). Very Particular, or rather Universal? Gentrification through the Lenses of Ghertner and López-Morales. City, 20(4), 637-644. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143682

Bernt, M. (2016). How Post-Socialist is Gentrification? Observations in East Berlin and Saint Petersburg. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57(4-5), 565-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2016.1259079

Bernt, M. (2016). Gentrification under Question: Conceptual Risks and Political Consequences. In A. Spellerberg, & M. Harnack (Eds.), Urban Quality of Life at Risk (pp. 10-18). Technische Universität Kaiserslautern.

Haase, A., Bernt, M., Großmann, K., Mykhnenko, V., & Rink, D. (2016). Varieties of Shrinkage in European Cities. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(1), 86-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776413481985

2015

Bernt, M., Gentile, M., & Marcinczak, S. (2015). Gentrification in Post-Communist Countries: An Introduction. Geografie, 120(2), 104-112. http://geography.cz/sbornik/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2015/06/gcgs022015_intro2.pdf

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Bernt, M. (2015). Stadterneuerung zwischen Entstaatlichung und politischer Einflussnahme: Zu schwach, zu spät, zu unentschlossen. In Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin, Abteilung Stadtentwicklung (Ed.), Eine Stadt verändert sich: Berlin Pankow - 25 Jahre Stadterneuerung (pp. 150-161). nicolai.

Bernt, M. (2015). The Limits of Shrinkage: Conceptual Pitfalls and Alternatives in the Discussion of Urban Population Loss. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(2), 441-450. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12289

Bernt, M. (2015). Zehn Jahre später: Uwe Altrocks Analysen zur Governance der Schrumpfung nochmal gelesen. Planungsrundschau, (Sonderausgabe), 95-99.

Bernt, M., Marcinczak, S., & Gentile, M. (Eds.) (2015). Gentrification in Post-Communist Countries. (Geografie, Special Issue; Vol. 120, No. 2).

Bernt, M. (2015). Schlüsselfiguren bei der Entstehung des "Stadtumbau Ost". (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 55). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1080247386/34

2014

Bernt, M., Haase, A., Großmann, K., Cocks, M., Couch, C., Cortese, C., & Krzysztofik, R. (2014). How Does(n't) Urban Shrinkage Get onto the Agenda? Experiences from Leipzig, Liverpool, Genoa and Bytom. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(5), 1749-1766. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12101

Bernt, M. (2014). Die Herausforderer der "Behutsamen Stadterneuerung". In U. Altrock, R. Kunze, G. Schmitt, & D. Schubert (Eds.), Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung 2013: Schwerpunkt "Das Ende der Behutsamkeit?" (pp. 53-67). Universitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Berlin.

Haase, A., Rink, D., Großmann, K., Bernt, M., & Mykhnenko, V. (2014). Conceptualizing Urban Shrinkage. Environment and Planning A, 46(7), 1519-1534. https://doi.org/10.1068/a46269

Bernt, M. (2014). Schrumpfung. In B. Belina, M. Naumann, & A. Strüver (Eds.), Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie (pp. 118-123). Westfälisches Dampfboot.

Rink, D., Bernt, M., Großmann, K., & Haase, A. (2014). Governance des Stadtumbaus in Ostdeutschland: Großwohnsiedlung und Altbaugebiet im Vergleich. In F. Roost, B. Schmidt-Lauber, C. Hannemann, F. Othengrafen, & J. Pohlan (Eds.), Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2013/14: Schwerpunkt: Urbane Peripherie (pp. 132-147). Budrich.

Bernt, M., Förste, D., Colini, L., & Hebsaker, J. (2014). Studie zur kleinräumlichen Untersuchung sozialstruktureller Veränderungen in Halle (Saale): Ergebnisse der Auswertung von Daten der kommunalen Statistik. Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. http://www.irs-net.de/download/publikationen/Halle_Kleinraeumliche%20Untersuchung%20sozialstruktureller%20Veraenderungen_Endfassung.pdf

2013

Bernt, M., & Liebmann, H. (Eds.) (2013). Peripherisierung, Stigmatisierung, Abhängigkeit? Deutsche Mittelstädte und ihr Umgang mit Peripherisierungsprozessen. Springer VS.

Kühn, M., & Bernt, M. (2013). Peripheralization and Power - Theoretical Debates. In A. Fischer-Tahir, & M. Naumann (Eds.), Peripherization: The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice (pp. 302-317). Springer VS.

2012

Bernt, M., Liebmann, H., Weck, S., Bürk, T., Beißwenger, S., Kühn, M., & Dunkel, T. (2012). Mittelstädte im peripherisierten Raum zwischen Abkopplung und Innovation: Ergebnisse eines Experten-Workshops in Günne/Möhnesee am 08. und 09. September 2011. Denkwerkstatt der Montag Stiftungen.

2010

Bernt, M. (2010). Auf halbem Wege: Das Bund-Länder-Programm "Stadtumbau Ost". In Ministerium für Landesentwicklung und Verkehr des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt (Ed.), Weniger ist Zukunft: 19 Städte, 19 Themen: Internationale Bauausstellung 2010 Stadtumbau Sachsen-Anhalt. (pp. 344-355). Jovis.

Bernt, M., Bürk, T., Kühn, M., Liebmann, H., & Sommer, H. (2010). Stadtkarrieren in peripherisierten Räumen: Problemstellung, theoretische Bezüge und Forschungsansatz. (Working Paper / Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung; No. 42). Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung. https://d-nb.info/1028583133/34

Bernt, M., & Haus, M. (2010). Stadtumbau als Problem der Governance-Forschung. In M. Bernt, M. Haus, & T. Robischon (Eds.), Stadtumbau komplex: Governance, Planung, Prozess. (pp. 12-29). Schader-Stiftung.

2009

Bernt, M., & Naumann, M. (2009). When the Tap stays dry: Water Networks in Eastern Germany. Local Environment, 14(5), 461-471.

2006

Bernt, M., & Naumann, M. (2006). Wenn der Hahn zu bleibt - Wasserversorgung in schrumpfenden Städten. In S. Frank, & M. Gandy (Eds.), Hydropolis: Wasser und die Stadt der Moderne (pp. 210-229). Campus.

Selected Publications by Type

Monograph

Bernt, M., & Volkmann, A. (2023). Segregation in Ostdeutschland: Transformationsprozesse, Wohnungsmärkte und Wohnbiographien in Halle (Saale). (Urban Studies). Transcript.

Bernt, M. (2022). The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg. (IJURR-SUSC). Wiley Blackwell.

Anthology

Bernt, M., & Liebmann, H. (Eds.) (2013). Peripherisierung, Stigmatisierung, Abhängigkeit? Deutsche Mittelstädte und ihr Umgang mit Peripherisierungsprozessen. Springer VS.

Journal Issue / Special Issue

Bernt, M., Marcinczak, S., & Gentile, M. (Eds.) (2015). Gentrification in Post-Communist Countries. (Geografie, Special Issue; Vol. 120, No. 2).

Journal Article

Bernt, M., & Volkmann, A. (2024). Suburbanization in East Germany. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231218612

Bernt, M., & Volkmann, A. (2023). Residential Segregation. Encyclopedia, 3 (4), 1401-1408. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia3040100

Bernt, M. (2021). Die Segregationsmaschine: Entmischung in deutschen Großwohnsiedlungen und ihre Ursachen. Die Wohnungswirtschaft, 74(2), 8-11.

Bernt, M., El-Kayed, N., Milstrey, U., & Rößler, S. (2021). Stadtumbau und Migration - Herausforderungen für Großwohnsiedlungen. Planerin, (1), 51-56.

Marcinczak, S., & Bernt, M. (2021). Immigration, Segregation and Neighborhood Change in Berlin. Cities, 119, [103417]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103417

Bernt, M., & Holm, A. (2020). Den Osten im Blick: Eine Replik. Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, 8(3), 151-156. https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v8i3.643

Bernt, M. (2019). Migration and Strategic Urban Planning: The Case of Leipzig. disP: The Planning Review, 55(3), 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2019.1671002

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/213937

Bernt, M. (2019). ‘Urban Regimes’ and ‘Migration Regimes’: Contradictions, Connections and Potentials. Erdkunde, 73(1), 9-17. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2019.01.03

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215476

Aalbers, M., & Bernt, M. (2019). The Political Economy of Managing Decline and Rightsizing. Urban Geography, 40(2), 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1524654

Bernt, M. (2019). The Emergence of "Stadtumbau Ost". Urban Geography, 40(2), 174-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1332926

Bernt, M. (2018). Gentrification between Urban und Rural. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(1), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617752001

http://www.zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/article/view/273/456

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/222249

Hillmann, F., Bernt, M., & Calbet Elias, L. (2017). Von den Rändern der Stadt her denken: Das Beispiel Berlin. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 67(48), 25-31.

Bernt, M. (2016). Very Particular, or rather Universal? Gentrification through the Lenses of Ghertner and López-Morales. City, 20(4), 637-644. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143682

http://geography.cz/sbornik/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2015/06/gcgs022015_intro2.pdf

Bernt, M. (2015). Zehn Jahre später: Uwe Altrocks Analysen zur Governance der Schrumpfung nochmal gelesen. Planungsrundschau, (Sonderausgabe), 95-99.

Haase, A., Rink, D., Großmann, K., Bernt, M., & Mykhnenko, V. (2014). Conceptualizing Urban Shrinkage. Environment and Planning A, 46(7), 1519-1534. https://doi.org/10.1068/a46269

Bernt, M., & Naumann, M. (2009). When the Tap stays dry: Water Networks in Eastern Germany. Local Environment, 14(5), 461-471.

Contribution to Anthology

Bernt, M. (2021). Wohnen in gelichteten Stadtteilen. In F. Eckardt, & S. Meier (Eds.), Handbuch Wohnsoziologie (pp. 347-362). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24862-8_19-1

Bernt, M. (2019). Sonderfall Südpark? In P. Pasternack (Ed.), Kein Streitfall mehr?: Halle-Neustadt fünf Jahre nach dem Jubiläum (pp. 79-90). Mitteldeutscher Verlag.

https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/10413_Apuz_Wohnen_ba.pdf

Bernt, M. (2019). Shrinking Cities. In A. M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (Vol. 4, pp. 1807-1809). Wiley Blackwell.

Hillmann, F., Bernt, M., & Calbet Elias, L. (2018). Von den Rändern der Stadt her denken: Das Beispiel Berlin. In A. Grabener (Ed.), Immobilien-Almanach 01 (2018/2019 ed., pp. 9-19). Grabener.

http://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/36f5cb3ea2d353fe19cbb69d7068c612.pdf

Bernt, M. (2014). Schrumpfung. In B. Belina, M. Naumann, & A. Strüver (Eds.), Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie (pp. 118-123). Westfälisches Dampfboot.

Contribution to Forum or Blog

Expertise / Position Paper / Policy Paper

Other Contribution to Book

Other transfer publication

Working Paper, Discussion Paper

https://stadtummig.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-03_StadtumMig_Working_Paper_1.pdf

Bernt, M. (2020). Comparing the Governance of Large Housing Estates in Estonia, Germany, and Russia: What Can be Learned? https://www.estatestransition.org/reports

https://www.estatestransition.org/reports

Talks

2023

With, or without? For, or against? Berlin’s housing policy and financial investors

November/22/2023

Gentrification: A Planetary Conversation

Gentrification & Displacement. What Can We Do About It?

October/27/2023
Boston University, Boston, United States

Eigentümerstrukturen in ostdeutschen Großwohnsiedlungen: Das moyenne durée der postsozialistischen Transformation

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023

September/22/2023
Goethe-Universität , Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Housing policy under the conditions of financialization. The impact of institutional investors on affordable housing in European Cities.

European Network for Housing Research 2023 Lodz conference

June/29/2023
Universität Lódz, Lódz, Poland

Book Discussion: ”The Commodification Gap- Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg”

May/04/2023

The Commodification Gap

Hot off the Press

April/19/2023
Wien (online), Wien, Austria

AAG Annual Meeting 2023

March/24/2023
Denver (online), Denver, United States

2022

Gentrification and Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives

Urban Salon: Gentrification and Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives

November/01/2022
London

Author Meets Critics: The Commodification Gap. Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg

European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Network 37: Urban Sociology Conference

October/06/2022
Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

The Commodification Gap: Towards an Institutionalist Perspective on Gentrification

The Struggle for the 'Right to Housing': The Pressures of Globalization and Affordability in Cities Today

August/30/2022
ETSAB Barcelona School of Architecture (Polytechnic University of Catalonia), Barcelona, Spain

Financialization in the Backyards. GLC in East German Peripheral Housing Estates

Ordinary Cities in Exceptional Times

August/25/2022
Athen, Greece

Author meets Critics

9th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference

June/29/2022
https://tgf.elte.hu/cat_2022, Budapest, Hungary

This was Nowhere Possible but here… - Property Structures and Segregation in East German Large Housing Estates

9th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference

June/28/2022
https://tgf.elte.hu/cat_2022, Budapest, Hungary

Input Statement zum Workshop

Dilemmas of War: (How) can we Continue Researching Russian
Cities?

June/24/2022
Online

Internal Migration Industries: Shaping the Housing Options for Refugees in German Cities

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2022 (AAG)

February/26/2022
digital , United States

Limits of Shrinkage. Conceptual Pitfalls and Alternatives in the Discussion of Urban Population Losses

Urban Melting Pot - Humboldt Kolleg Urban Partnership

January/19/2022
digital , Indonesia

2021

Internal Migration Industries: Die Wohnraumversorgung von Geflüchteten als Geschäftsfeld

Herbsttagung der Sektion Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie in der DGS 2021

October/08/2021
online

From “Rent Gap” to “Commodification Gap”: Socializing and Spatializing Ground Rent in the Context of Gentrification

RC21 Annual Conference

July/15/2021
digital, Antwerpen, Belgium

Housing Provision for Refugees: A New Source of Profit Extraction?

RC21 Annual Conference

July/14/2021
digital, Antwerpen, Belgium

2020

Comparing the Governance of Large Housing Estates

XIV. VDNKh Konferenz der Europäischen Universität St. Petersburg

November/20/2020

Plattenbausiedlungen als mehrfache Umbruch-Quartiere. Räumliche Entwicklungen und soziale Spannungen

40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020

September/18/2020
digital

2019

The Downgrading of Large Housing Estates: Explanations, Causes, Actors

Новые городские районы: между моральными паниками и научным исследованием (Neue Großwohnsiedlungen: Zwischen Moralpaniken und wissenschaftlicher Untersuchung)

November/30/2019
Hochschule für Ökonomie (HSE), Moskau, Russian Federation

Rebels with a ca(u)se? Universalized gentrification and “Eastern” critiques

CATference

September/26/2019
Universität Belgrad, Belgrad, Serbia

Finanzialisierung, Stadtumbau und Hartz IV: Die Zusammenhänge in ostdeutschen Großwohnsiedlungen

Boden. Wirtschaft. Gesellschaft.

May/24/2019
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

2018

Zwischen Stabilisierung und Armutskonzentration: Aktuelle Probleme ostdeutscher Großwohnsiedlungen

Habilitationsvortrag

September/19/2018
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2017

Reexamining Gentrification – Learning from St.Petersburg

CATference 2017

September/27/2017
Kiew, Kiew, Ukraine

Between Social Polarization, Population Losses, and Immigration: News from East German Large Housing Estates

CATference 2017

September/26/2017
Kiew, Kiew, Ukraine

More than a Side Issue? Migration, Planning and Regeneration in Leipzig

Rc21 Annual Conference

September/13/2017
Leeds, Urbino, Italy

New Municipalism: Hopes and Limits of Progressive Urban Policies. Critical Dialogue between Berlin and Barcelona

Rc21 Annual Conference

September/11/2017
Leeds, Urbino, Italy

2016

Neither universal, nor particular. False dichotomies and the need for an institutionalist perspective in gentrification research

KOSMOS Workshop "Universal gentrification? Conceptual challenges of comparative urbanism

October/15/2016
Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Very particular, or rahter universal?: Gentrification in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg

RGS with IGB Annual International Conference 2016 "Nexus Thinking"

August/31/2016
London, London, United Kingdom

Stimulus for confusion: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St.Petersburg

RECOURSE Seminar

April/06/2016
Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

2015

Financialisation, shrinkage and welfare state restructuring and the new ‘housing question’ in an in eastgerman neighbourhood

6th CATference 2015

September/30/2015
Prag, Prag, Czech Republic

Similar, but different

British-German Conference "Urban Quality of Life at Risk"

June/12/2015
Frankfurt a.M., Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Same, same, but different

Raumwissenschaftliches Kollquium der 5R-Institute

February/19/2015
Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Memberships

Sektion Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (External organisation)
Initiativenforum Stadtpolitik Berlin (External organisation)
International Sociological Association (External organisation)
Fachbeirat Wohnraumversorgung Berlin (External organisation)
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (External organisation)
Berlin Tenants‘ Association (External organisation)

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Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Ongoing Cross-departmental Projects

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Selected Publications by Type

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