Alois Humer takes a systemic, urban-regional perspective. Cities of the 21^st century are the economic and infrastructural nodes of global networks. At the same time, cities continue to be in a state economic function as centre for their hinterland. Normatively spoken, cities hold a responsibility towards their hinterland. Under these tensions, Alois interprets cities beyond constituting a single locality but looks into polycentric formations, regional city-hinterland disparities, centre-periphery dynamics, and the multiple roles of a city as a ‘place’ and regional centre. This interest forms the basis for analyzing strategic urban planning practices, including concerns of urban service, housing and infrastructure provision in regional contexts. Empirically, he provides long-standing experience in European/internationally comparative research. This is of particular importance in the field of urban planning, in which institutions and governance cultures vary significantly.

Alois Humer is currently University Professor of Applied Geography, Spatial Research and Spatial Planning at the University of Vienna. Before that, he was a senior researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and an outgoing FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellow (grant no. J-3993-G29) at the Department of Built Environment at Aalto University Espoo/Helsinki. He is active in AESOP, RSA, ERSA and other international research communities, joins research teams in INTERREG and ESPON projects and serves as senior expert for DG REGIO. His research has been published in key journals (such as Regional Studies and European Planning Studies) and international publishers (such as Edward Elgar and Routledge). 

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