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Birgit Hausleitner

Lecturer in Urbanism at Delft University of Technology

Areas of expertise

  • - Urban morphology, multi-scalar spatial analysis, urban configuration typologies for comparative performance analysis
  • - Urban spatial conditions for work activities and mixed-use
  • - Development of pattern languages as co-creation instruments

Major works

  • Hausleitner, B., Berghauser Pont, M. (2017). Development of a configurational typology for micro-businesses integrating geometric and configurational variables. Proceedings XI space syntax conference , Lisbon. http://www.11ssslisbon.pt/docs/proceedings/papers/66.pdf
  • Muñoz Unceta, P., Hausleitner, B., Dąbrowski, M. (2020), Socio-Spatial Segregation and the Spatial Structure of 'Ordinary' Activities in the Global South, Urban Planning , 5(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i3.3047

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About me

Birgit Hausleitner is a Lecturer of Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. She has a background as an architect, being educated at TU Vienna, Austria and Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and an urbanist, trained at TU Delft, NL and IUAV Venice, Italy. After some years of gaining practical experience as an architect in Vienna, she has been conducting research and teaching in urban design at TU Delft since 2011. At TU Delft, Birgit coordinates urbanism theory and research and design studio courses as part of the MSc urbanism and advanced MSc of European Urbanism.

She is an expert in advanced spatial analysis and its application in urban design. Her research focuses on the development and use of configurational typologies as spatial models that allow a) a multi-scalar and multi-variable evaluation of a city’s potential for economic activity, mixed-use and diversity, and b) morphological cross-case comparisons in relation to urban economic activities. She led the TU Delft project team JPI Cities of Making, focusing on the spatial-morphological preconditions for manufacturing activities in European cities. Currently, she leads the project ‘Liveable manufacturing’, research on the spatial design requirements to include manufacturing in mixed-use areas in Amsterdam.