Prof. dr. Jochen Monstadt

Vening Meineszgebouw A
Princetonlaan 8a
Kamer 6.46
3584 CB Utrecht

Prof. dr. Jochen Monstadt

Professor
Spatial Planning
+31 30 253 3538
j.monstadt@uu.nl

Selected Publications:

 

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Li, Z., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., Monstadt, J., & He, J. (Accepted/In press). The communicative turn in planning? Examining community planner’s role as a third actor in Beijing, China. Cities, 151, Article 105785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105785
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/254950833/1-s2.0-S026427512500085X-main.pdf
Monstadt, J., Pilo, F., & van Gils, B. (Accepted/In press). Toward the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam. Urban Studies.
Meilinger, V., & Monstadt, J. (2025). One Water in Los Angeles? Contesting the Circular City through Infrastructural Practices. Urban Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2025.2456376
Punt, E., Monstadt, J., Frank, S., & Witte, P. (2025). Business-as-unusual: exploring port stakeholders' time tactics for mediating recent disruptions at the Port of Rotterdam. Time and Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X241301270
Monstadt, J., & Saltzman, K. (2025). How data centers have come to matter: Governing the spatial and environmental footprint of the “digital gateway to Europe”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13316

2024

Scholarly publications

Koepke, M., Otsuki, K., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Toward Energy for All? Heterogeneous Electricity Constellations in Mozambique’s Greater Maputo Region. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 16(1), 379-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2024.2416387
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/242699829/Toward_energy_for_all_Heterogeneous_electricity_constellations_in_Mozambique_s_Greater_Maputo_region.pdf
He, J., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Informal participation in digital planning: How can third parties use social media to shift power relations in planning? Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 114, Article 102193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102193
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/239670368/1-s2.0-S0198971524001224-main.pdf
van der Straeten, J., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Between providers and users: Redistributors in Nairobi’s fragmented landscape of electricity provision. In R. Rottenburg, & E. Riedke (Eds.), Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation (pp. 100-124). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004688285_005
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/238575327/9789004688285-BP000012.pdf
Li, Z., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Hidden conflicts? Revealing power mechanisms in collaborative governance for redeveloping heritage districts: The case of Dashilar. Journal of Urban Affairs. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2024.2396376
Zhou, X., Lin, Y., Monstadt, J., Hooimeijer, P., Wang, S., & Liu, Z. (2024). Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: a deliberative turn in China? Urban Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241259985
He, J., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Measuring social network influence on power relations in collaborative planning: A case study of Beijing City, China. Cities, 148, Article 104866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104866
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/231884311/1-s2.0-S0264275124000805-main.pdf
Li, Z., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Heritage conflict evolution: changing framing strategies and opportunity structures in two heritage district redevelopment projects in China. Geoforum, 149(2), Article 103959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.103959
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/231884366/1-s2.0-S0016718524000204-main.pdf
Jambadu, L., Monstadt, J., & Pilo, F. (2024). The politics of tied aid: technology transfer and the maintenance and repair of water infrastructure. World Development, 175 (3), Article 106476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106476
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/231884403/1-s2.0-S0305750X23002942-main.pdf
Meilinger, V., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Shaping Suburbanization through Regional Land-Use Planning? The case of Greater Frankfurt. In P. Hamel (Ed.), Politics of the Periphery: Governing Global Suburbia University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781487547097/politics-of-the-periphery/
Jambadu, L., Pilo, F., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Co-producing maintenance and repair: Hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana. Urban Research and Practice, 17(2), 280–302. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2023.2180325
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/451852/Co-producing_maintenance_and_repair_hybrid_labor_relations_in_water_supply_in_Accra_Ghana.pdf?sequence=1

2023

Scholarly publications

He, J., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2023). The role of social media in reshaping the power of third parties in urban planning. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) in Montreal, Canada, 20-22 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6YR5V
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/188598721/OSF.pdf
Koepke, M., Monstadt, J., & Pilo, F. (2023). Urban electricity governance and the (re)production of heterogeneous electricity constellations in Dar es Salaam. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 13(1), 1-15. Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-023-00401-8
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/429390/s13705-023-00401-8.pdf?sequence=1
Punt, E., Monstadt, J., Frank, S., & Witte, P. (2023). Navigating cyber resilience in seaports: challenges of preparing for cyberattacks at the Port of Rotterdam. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 25(4), 420-438. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-12-2022-0150
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/428865/10_1108_DPRG_12_2022_0150.pdf?sequence=1
Eledi Kuusaana, J., Monstadt, J., & Smith, S. (2023). Toward Urban Resilience? Coping with Blackouts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Journal of Urban Technology, 30(2), 79-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2022.2153318
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/427504/Toward_Urban_Resilience_Coping_with_Blackouts_in_Dar_es_Salaam_Tanzania.pdf?sequence=1
Eledi Kuusaana, J., Monstadt, J., & Smith, S. (2023). Practicing Urban Resilience to Electricity Service Disruption in Accra, Ghana. Energy Research and Social Science, 95, Article 102885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102885
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/427883/1_s2.0_S2214629622003887_main.pdf?sequence=1
Punt, E., Monstadt, J., Frank, S., & Witte, P. (2023). Beyond the dikes: an institutional perspective on governing flood resilience at the Port of Rotterdam. Maritime Economics and Logistics, 25(2), 230-248. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41278-022-00234-w
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/429317/s41278-022-00234-w.pdf?sequence=1
Macdonald, S., Monstadt, J., & Friendly, A. (2023). Towards Smart Regional Growth: Institutional Complexities and the Regional Governance of Southern Ontario’s Greenbelt. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11(8), 1727–1747. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2021.1928540
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/231884458/Towards_smart_regional_growth_institutional_complexities_and_the_regional_governance_of_Southern_Ontario_s_Greenbelt.pdf

2022

Scholarly publications

He, J., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2022). Measuring social network influence on power relations in collaborative planning in Beijing city, China.
Smith, S., Monstadt, J., & Otsuki, K. (2022). Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery. Energy Research and Social Science, 90, 1-13. Article 102684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102684
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/421918/1_s2.0_S2214629622001888_main.pdf?sequence=1
Guma, P., Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2022). Post-, Pre- and Non-Payment: Conflicting Rationalities in the Digitalisation of Energy Access in Kibera, Nairobi. Digital Geography and Society, 3, 100037. Article 100037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2022.100037
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420408/1_s2.0_S2666378322000125_main.pdf?sequence=1
Monstadt, J., Colen Ladeia Torrens, J., Jain, M., Macrorie, R., & Smith, S. (2022). Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 55(4), 1-9. Article 101157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101157
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/419262/1_s2.0_S1877343522000094_main.pdf?sequence=1
Jambadu, L., Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2022). Understanding repair and maintenance in networked water supply in Accra and Dar es Salaam. Water Alternatives, 15(2), 413-437. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol15/v15issue2/661-a15-2-3
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/419149/Art15_2_3.pdf?sequence=2
Monstadt, J. (2022). Urban and infrastructural rhythms and the politics of temporal alignment. Journal of Urban Technology, 29(1), 69-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2021.2007205
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/418912/10630732.2021.pdf?sequence=1
Meilinger, V. U., & Monstadt, J. (2022). From the Sanitary City to the Circular City? Technopolitics of Wastewater Restructuring in Los Angeles, California. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(2), 182-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13014
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/418669/Int_J_Urban_Regional_Res_2021_Meilinger_FROM_THE_SANITARY_CITY_TO_THE_CIRCULAR_CITY_Technopolitics_of_Wastewater.pdf?sequence=1

2021

Scholarly publications

Engels, J. I., Frank, S., Gurevych, I., Heßler, M., Knodt, M., Monstadt, J., Nordmann, A., Oetting, A., Rudolph-Cleff, A., Rüppel, U., Schenk, G. J., & Steinke, F. (2021). Transformation, Zirkulation, System of Systems: Für ein dynamisches Verständnis netzgebundener Infrastrukturen. TUprints. https://doi.org/10.26083/tuprints-00017923
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/415445/Transformation_Zirkulation_System_of_Systems_1_.pdf?sequence=1
Viegas Filipe, E., Otsuki, K., & Monstadt, J. (2021). Translating the Sustainable Development Goals in national development planning: the case of Mozambique’s Energy for All Programme. Sustainability Science, 16(6), 1797–1809. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01020-y
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/412676/ViegasFilipe2021_Article_TranslatingTheSustainableDevel.pdf?sequence=1
Koepke, M., Monstadt, J., Pilo, F., & Otsuki, K. (2021). Rethinking energy transitions in Southern cities: urban and infrastructural heterogeneity in Dar es Salaam. Energy Research and Social Science, 74(2021), Article 101937 (open access). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.101937
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/410777/1_s2.0_S221462962100030X_main.pdf?sequence=1
Huck, A., Monstadt, J., Driessen, P. P. J., & Rudolph-Cleff, A. (2021). Towards resilient Rotterdam? Key conditions for a networked approach to managing urban infrastructure risks. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 29(1), 12-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12295
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/408103/1468_5973.12295.pdf?sequence=1
Macdonald, S., Monstadt, J., & Friendly, A. (2021). Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts. Regional Studies, 55(5), 804-817. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1747608
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/231884524/Rethinking_the_governance_and_planning_of_a_new_generation_of_greenbelts.pdf
Macdonald, S., Monstadt, J., & Friendly, A. (2021). From the Frankfurt Greenbelt to the Regionalpark RheinMain: An institutional perspective on regional greenbelt governance. European Planning Studies, 29(1), 142–162. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2020.1724268
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/407947/From_the_Frankfurt_greenbelt_to_the_Regionalpark_RheinMain_an_institutional_perspective_on_regional_greenbelt_governance.pdf?sequence=1
Guma, P. K., & Monstadt, J. (2021). Smart city making? The spread of ICT-driven plans and infrastructures in Nairobi. Urban Geography, 42(3), 360-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1715050
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/407867/Smart_city_making_The_spread_of_ICT_driven_plans_and_infrastructures_in_Nairobi.pdf?sequence=1

2020

Scholarly publications

Huck, A., Monstadt, J., & Driessen, P. P. J. (2020). Mainstreaming resilience in urban policymaking? Insights from Rotterdam and Christchurch. Geoforum, 117, 194-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.10.001
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/409008/1_s2.0_S0016718520302499_main.pdf?sequence=1
Huck, A., Monstadt, J., & Driessen, P. P. J. (2020). Building urban and infrastructure resilience through connectivity: An institutional perspective on disaster risk management in Christchurch, New Zealand. Cities, 98, 1-10. Article 102573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102573
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/396351/1_s2.0_S0264275119309187_main.pdf?sequence=1
Monstadt, J., & Meilinger, V. (2020). Governing Suburbia through regionalized land-use planning? Experiences from the Greater Frankfurt region. Land Use Policy, 91, 1-12. Article 104300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104300
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/407743/1_s2.0_S026483771831247X_main.pdf?sequence=1

2019

Scholarly publications

Elsner, I., Monstadt, J., & Raven, R. P. J. M. (2019). Decarbonising Rotterdam? Energy transitions and the alignment of urban and infrastructural temporalities. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 23(4-5), 646-657. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689735
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391210/Decarbonising_Rotterdam.pdf?sequence=1
Guma, P. K., Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2019). Hybrid constellations of water access in the digital age: the case of Jisomee Mita in Soweto-Kayole, Nairobi. Water Alternatives, 12(2), 725-743. http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/volume-12/v12issue2/496-a12-2-3/file
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389775/hybrid_constellations.pdf?sequence=1
Huck, A., & Monstadt, J. (2019). Urban and infrastructure resilience: Diverging concepts and the need for cross-boundary learning. Environmental Science & Policy, 100, 211–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.05.008
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391108/Urban_and_infrastructure_resilience.pdf?sequence=1
Monstadt, J., & Schmidt, M. (2019). Urban resilience in the making? The governance of critical infrastructures in German cities. Urban Studies, 56(11), 2353–2371. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018808483
Monstadt, J., & Coutard, O. (2019). Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus. Urban Studies, 56(11), 2191-2206. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019833907
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/388890/cities_in_an_era.pdf?sequence=1

2018

Scholarly publications

Monstadt, J. (2018). Technische Infrastruktur. In Handwörterbuch der Stadt‐ und Raumentwicklung (pp. 2649-2662). ARL- Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. https://shop.arl-net.de/media/direct/pdf/HWB%202018/Technische%20Infrastruktur.pdf
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/430782/Technische_Infrastruktur.pdf?sequence=1
Schmidt, M., & Monstadt, J. (2018). Infrastruktur. In Handwörterbuch der Stadt- und Raumentwicklung (pp. 975-988). ARL- Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. https://shop.arl-net.de/media/direct/pdf/HWB%202018/Infrastruktur.pdf
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/430783/Infrastruktur.pdf?sequence=1
de Bercegol, R., & Monstadt, J. (2018). The Kenya Slum Electrification Program. Local politics of electricity networks in Kibera. Energy Research and Social Science, 41, 249-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.007
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/430781/1-s2.0-S2214629618303529-main.pdf?sequence=1

2017

Scholarly publications

Wolff, A., & Monstadt, J. (2017). Infrastrukturregime und inkrementeller Wandel: Das Beispiel der Energie- und Wasserversorgung in Los Angeles. In M. Flitner, J. Lossau, & A.-L. Müller (Eds.), Infrastrukturen der Stadt (1 ed., pp. 205-225). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10424-5_11
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/430842/Monstadt_Wolff_Energie_Wasserinfrastrukturen_LA_2017.pdf?sequence=1
Engels, J. I., Janich, N., Monstadt, J., & Schott, D. (Eds.) (2017). Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung: Infrastrukturen, Akteure, Diskurse. (Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung). Campus Verlag.
Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2017). Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(1), 104-125. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12436
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/361876/monstadt.pdf?sequence=1

2016

Scholarly publications

Monstadt, J., & Scheiner, S. (2016). Die Bundesländer in der nationalen Energie- und Klimapolitik: Räumliche Verteilungswirkungen und föderale Politikgestaltung der Energiewende. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 74(3), 179-197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13147-016-0395-6

2015

Scholarly publications

Monstadt, J., Hård, M., & Schramm, S. (2015). Jenseits der Netzstadt? Stadt- und Infrastrukturentwicklung in Dar es Salaam. Informationen zur modernen Stadtgeschichte, 2015(1), 81–92. https://difu.de/sites/difu.de/files/archiv/publikationen/reihen/informationen%20zur%20modernen%20stadtgeschichte%20(ims)/ims-2015-1_volltext.pdf
Monstadt, J., & Wolff, A. (2015). Energy transition or incremental change? Green policy agendas and the adaptability of the urban energy regime in Los Angeles. Energy Policy, 78(March), 213-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.10.022
Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2015). Changing sanitation infrastructure in Hanoi: hybrid topologies and the networked city. In O. Coutard, & J. Rutherford (Eds.), Beyond the networked city: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315757612

2014

Scholarly publications

Monstadt, J., & Scheiner, S. (2014). Allocating greenhouse gas emissions in the German federal system: Regional interests and federal climate governance. Energy Policy, 74(11), 383–394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.09.001

2009

Scholarly publications

Monstadt, J. (2009). Conceptualizing the political ecology of urban infrastructures: Insights from technology and urban studies. Environment and Planning A, 41(8), 1924-1942. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4145