Professional focus

Planning in developing countries, open space management, shrinking cities

Scientific career

Since 10/2010 Research fellow at the department for "International Planning Systems" at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

July 2010 Master of Science in "European Urban Development" at Bauhaus-University Weimar

March 2009 Master of Science in "Urban Management" at University of Technology Berlin

September 2004 "Postgraduate Diploma" (one-year postgraduate studies) at University of Damaskus, Syria

September 2003 "Bachelor of Architecture" (five-year study) at University of Damaskus, Syria

Publications

Pallagst, Karina, Fleschurz, René and Siba Said. 2016. Right sizing the shrinking city: Tales from two German cases. South Architecture Magazine, 2016(2), S. 54-60.

Pallagst, Karina, Siba Said und René Fleschurz. 2013. Conference Paper: The Shrinking Cities Phenomenon and its Influence on Planning Cultures - evidence from a german-American Comparison. 

Conferences and events

World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WCOMES) 2014, Analyzing Success Factors of Participatory Urban Development in the Arab Cities Alexandria and Aleppo, Oral Presentation

AESOP 2012, 26th Annual Congress, Ankara: Paper and Presentation on"Dealing with Urban Growth in Damascus, Syria: Challenges and Recommendations"

German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Resarch and Documentation (DAVO), 2012, DAVO Congress, Erlangen, Presentation on "Bad Urban Governance as Motive of the Uprising in Syria, Case Study: Damascus"