Expert in Urban Morphology and Sustainable City Design
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Delft University of TechnologyBirgit Hausleitner serves as a Lecturer of Urban Design at TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, bringing a diverse educational background from TU Vienna, Politecnico di Milano, and IUAV Venice. After working as an architect in Vienna, she joined TU Delft in 2011, where she coordinates urbanism theory and research design studio courses in the MSc urbanism and advanced MSc of European Urbanism programs. Her research focuses on urban morphology, multi-scalar spatial analysis, and the development of configurational typologies for comparing urban performance. She led the TU Delft team in the JPI Cities of Making project, examining spatial-morphological conditions for manufacturing in European cities, and currently heads the 'Liveable Manufacturing' project in Amsterdam. Her expertise spans urban spatial conditions for work activities, mixed-use development, and pattern languages as co-creation instruments. Through her work, she emphasizes the importance of systemic and place-based understanding in addressing urban complexity, particularly focusing on how the built environment can adapt to changing socio-economic processes in the transition toward circular societies