Dr. Wolfram Höfer is an Associate Professor at the Rutgers of Department of Landscape Architecture and serves as Director of the Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES).
Dr. Hoefer developed numerous community outreach projects in the field of adaptive re-use of brownfields, urban resiliency, and infrastructure. His research and teaching focus is the cultural interpretation of brownfields as potential elements of the public realm and how the challenges of climate change impact spatial and environmental planning. Further he is investigating the different cultural interpretations of landscapes by the general public in North America and Europe and how they influence public participation processes as well as professional approaches towards planning and design solutions for adaptive re-use of brownfields.
Books:
Höfer, Wolfram 2020: Factors in (Sub) Urban Landscape Transformation. Comparison of the Ruhr Region with the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Region. In: Reicher C.; Jansen H.; Polivka J: Transforming City Regions – Shaping the Future of Urban Regions. TU Dortmund Eldorado University Press. 125 – 136.
Publications:
Höfer, Wolfram 2020: Pier 55 – Little Island at Manhattan’s Hudson River Park. In: Topos 111. 30-36.
Höfer, Wolfram 2022: Die vierte Emscher-Mündung – Gestaltung von Landschaft in Zeiten des fortschreitenden Klimawandels. In: Uli Paetzel, Uli; Nellen, Dieter; Siedentop, Steffen; Emschergenossenschaft (ed.): Emscher 20 | 21+: Die neue Emscher kommt. Jovis
Verlag Berlin. 120-129. The fourth mouth of the River Emscher – Designing of landscape in the age of climate change.
Höfer, Wolfram 2021: The Boon and Bane of private funding for Public Spaces. In: Topos 115. 41-45.
Höfer, Wolfram 2021: Metropolis Explained: New Jersey, in Topos Nr. 113, 113-114.
Höfer, Wolfram 2020: Wie mit Hochwassser planen? In: Baumeister Das Architektur-Magazin 9/2020. 14- 22. How to Plan with Floods?
Höfer, Wolfram 2020: Pier 55 – Little Island at Manhattan’s Hudson River Park. In: Topos 111. 30-36.
Höfer, Wolfram 2019: Factors in (Sub-)Urban Landscape Transformation. Comparison of the Ruhr Region with the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Region. In: Reicher C.; Jansen H.; Polivka J: Transforming City Regions – Shaping the Future of Urban Regions. Lit Verlag Zurich. 125 – 136.
Höfer, Wolfram, Ravit, Beth 2018: Reimagining (Sub-) Urban Parks. The Challenges of Negotiating Conflicting Interests in a Park System Master Planning Process. In: SPOOL - Journal of Architecture and the Built Environment. Volume 5, Issue 2. 37-54
Höfer, Wolfram 2018: A Neo-Post-Industrial Approach. In:Lehrstuhl für Industrielle Landschaft (Hrsg.): Inspiration Highline. 32-33.
Höfer, Wolfram 2017: 9/11 Memorial as Civic Space In: Topos 100.
Höfer, Wolfram 2017: Aufgeschlossen. Künftig ohne Zäune: New York will seine Parks öffnen. In: Garten und Landschaft 4/2017. 32-37 Opened up. . NYC Parks Without Fences Program.
