Philipp Heckmann-Umhau
Philipp's research centres on the development of modern cities. His dissertation, "Urban Planning in Strasbourg and Sarajevo, 1848-1918" (2023) offers a comparative history of two cities that had a lot in common in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Strasbourg and Sarajevo were unlike any other city within their respective empire. They were like each other in several respects. Both were conquered, occupied, and annexed by a European power, within which they remained oddities in a political, constitutional, linguistic and confessional sense. The dissertation examines how urban planning played out at the peripheries of empire.
Supervisor: Prof. Sir Christopher Clark
Urban planning and architecture in Imperial Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, and the Ottoman Empire.
Contact
Tags & Themes
King's College, Cambridge CB2 1ST
Key publications
Journal Articles
'The Development of Modern Urban Planning: The Case of Strasbourg, 1871-1918', online preprint in Journal of Urban History.
'The Protestant Origins of the German Garden City, 1848-1910', forthcoming in German History.
Book Chapters
'Migration and the Welfare State in Imperial German Strasbourg (1871-1918)', in: Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights: Historical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s, ed. by Beate Althammer (London: Routledge, 2023).
'Die Grenzregion als Kolonie? Neue Perspektiven auf Bosnien-Herzegowina und Elsass-Lothringen 1871-1918', in: Raum- und Grenzkonzeptionen in der Erforschung europäischer Regionen, ed. by Christine Gundermann, Lina Schröder and Markus Wegewitz (Dresden: Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde), pp. 86-109.
‘Modernes Baurecht in Elsass-Lothringen: Eine europäische Geschichte‘ [Modern Planning Law in Alsace-Lorraine: A European History], in Elsass-Lothringen als juristisches Laboratorium, ed. by Martin Löhnig (Regensburg: Edition Rechtskultur, 2023), pp. 47-74.
‘Ephemeral Heritage: The Ottoman Centre of Austro-Hungarian Sarajevo (1878-1918)’, in: La Città Palinsesto: Tracce, sguardi e narrazioni sulla complessità dei contesti urbani storici. Vol. II: Rappresentazione, conoscenza, conservazione, ed. by Maria Ines Pascariello & Alessandra Veropalumbo (Naples: Federico II University Press, 2021), pp. 613-21.