Carola Hein is Professor and Chair, History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. Her current research interests include the transmission of architectural and urban ideas, focusing specifically on port cities and the global architecture of oil.
She serves as Vice President of the International Planning History Society (IPHS), Editor of PORTUSplus the journal of RETE, co-editor of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL), IPHS Editor for Planning Perspectives and as Asia book review editor for Journal of Urban History.
Her books include: Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future, The Routledge Planning History Handbook (2017), Uzō Nishiyama, Reflections on Urban, Regional and National Space(2017), Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (2011), The Capital of Europe. Architecture and Urban Planning for the European Union (2004), Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003), and Cities, Autonomy and Decentralisation in Japan. (2006), Hauptstadt Berlin 1957-58 (1991). She has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and magazines.
Couling, N., and C. Hein (Eds.) The Urbanisation of the Sea: From Concepts and Analysis to Design. Rotterdam: Nai010 publisher, 2020. https://books.bk.tudelft.nl/index.php/press/catalog/view/778/888/854-1
Hein, C., ed. Adaptive strategies for Water Heritage. Past Present and Future Springer, 2019. https://books.google.de/books/about/Adaptive_Strategies_for_Water_Heritage.html?id=P423DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Hein, C., ed. The Routledge Handbook of Planning History. New York: Routledge, 2018. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Planning-History/Hein/p/book/9780367872373
Hein, C. “Oil Spaces: The Global Petroleumscape in the Rotterdam/The Hague area.” Journal of Urban History 44, no. 5 (2018): 887-929. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144217752460
Hein, C., and D. Schubert. “Resilience and Path Dependence – A comparative study of the port cities of London, Hamburg and Philadelphia.” Journal of Hurban History 47, no. 2 (2020): 389-419. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144220925098