Astrid Ley

Astrid Ley is chair of International Urbanism and course director of the international master program MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design (IUSD) at the University of Stuttgart. She also works as an urban development consultant to bilateral and international development agencies (oikos human settlement research group). She holds a degree in architecture and urban design from RWTH Aachen and a PhD from TU Berlin. Her expertise and publication record include topics related to urbanization in the Global South, housing processes, the role of local governance, participation, co-production, and civil society.

Series Editor: Habitat-International: Series on International Urbanism

transcript-Publications in the Research Fields: Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Sociology, Sociology of Migration, Urban and Spatial Sociology

Publications in the Series: Habitat-International: Series on International Urbanism

Web: International Urbanism