Jenny Schmithals Editor

Hans-Liudger Dienel is the director of the Nexus Institute, which has a core competency in participation research and practice, and professor at the University of Technology Berlin, Germany for Labour, Technology and Participation.

M. Reza Shirazi is a Marie Curie Fellow at the School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK, and works on neighbourhood development, social sustainability and urban theory and history with a focus on the MENA region.

Sabine Schröder is a research associate at the Nexus Institute, Berlin, Germany with focus on participation in urban development, sustainability, energy and climate change.

Jenny Schmithals studied environmental technologies and sociology at the University of Technology Berlin, Germany and specialized in social ecology, demography and participation in urban and regional development.