Caspar Kleiner

Urban and Land Policy, Disaster Risk Reduction and Urban Resilience, Rights in the Digital Transformation of Cities.

09.2025 – 12.2025
Procope-Fellow at the Laboratoire Image Ville et Environnement (LIVE) CNRS at the University of Strasbourg, France.

Winter term 2025/26
Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, Faculté de Géographie et d’Aménagement. Strasbourg, France.

Since 10.2024
PhD candidate at the Department of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Hartmann.

Winter term 2024/25
Lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Chair of Spatial Development and Transformation.

Since 11.2023
Research Associate at IOER, Research Area Spatial Information and Modelling. Member of the research group Urban Structure and Policy.

01.2023 – 07.2023
Intern in the Programme Support Urban Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Regional Office for Africa, UN-Habitat. Nairobi, Kenya.

10.2020 – 02.2023
Scientific Aid at the Chair of Urban Development, Technical University of Munich. Munich, Germany.

10.2019 – 04.2020
Intern in Architecture Firm Kris Yao Artech. Taipei, Taiwan.

04.2019 – 08.2019
Student Aid at the Chair of Urban Development, Technical University of Munich. Munich, Germany.

2020-2022
Master Studies in Architecture with the focus area Urban and Landscape Transformation at Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Title of the Master Thesis: Governing the Urban Data Commons.

2017-2018
Exchange Studies in Urbanism at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

2015-2019
Bachelor Studies in Architecture at Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Member of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR).

Member of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF).

PhD representative at the IOER.

2025

• „The role of institutional configurations of land policies in pursuing sustainability objectives in urban form.” at the ARL International Summer School on Exploring Land-Management across Europe: Perspectives, Challenges and Practices. Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), 18.06.2025. Ås, Norway.
• „What Densities? Using urban density metrics to reflect meaning in policy and planning action.” at AgileGIS: Geoinformation Science Responding to Global Challenges. TU Dresden, 12.06.2025. Dresden, Germany.
• „Finding common ground: conceptualising quantitative urban form measurements for land policy effects from a qualitative planning perspective.” at International School on Urban Morphology (ISUM). Zhejiang University, 15.04.2025. Hangzhou, China.
• „Logics of national land policies – From sustainability objectives to responsibilities and actors in France and Germany.” and „Forgotten Intentions? When Only Money Counts in Land Policy: the case of the French ‘Versement Pour Sous-Densité’.” at Planning Law and Property Rights Conference (PLPR). Cardiff University, 06.03.2025. Cardiff, Vereinigtes Königreich.

2024

• „Land Policy Impacts on Patterns of Sustainable Urban Form in the French-German Border-Region.” at the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) Future horizons for urban form: disruption, continuity, expansion, and reverberation. Mackenzie Presbyterian University, 19.09.2024. São Paulo, Brazil.
• „Patterns of Sustainable Urban Form – Tracing the outcomes of land policies in the French-German Border-Region.” Gastvortrag  an der Fédération de Recherche en Environnement et Durabilité (FERED). University of Strasbourg, 13.09.2025. Strasbourg, France.
• „Gebäude, Parzelle, Block – Wie urbane Morphologie zur Ableitung komplexer Informationen genutzt werden kann.“ at the Dresdner Flächennutzungssymposium (DFNS). IOER, 11.06.2025. Dresden, Germany.
• „Form Follows Policy? Tracing the causal relationship of land policy and urban form.” at the IRS Spring Academy on Transdisciplinarity and Social Scientific Research. Leibniz-Instituts für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung (IRS), 15.05.2025. Berlin, Deutschland.

DFG Form follows policy – Tracing the effects of sustainable land policies on urban form, Dauer 2023-2026, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

GI-SP – Geoinformation for Spatial Planning (Entwicklung von Planungshilfen für Klimaanpassung in der räumlichen Gesamtplanung unter Bereitstellung von digitalen Themenkarten und Geofachdaten mittels Fernerkundung), in co-operation with Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Dauer 2022-2024), Land Hessen.