Profile

Johanna Gassner has been a research assistant at the Research Unit Sociology since 2024. Her doctoral thesis examines social inequalities, class relations and their significance for spatial planning and planning instruments. She studied architecture and spatial planning at the Vienna University of Technology, as well as social work with a focus on the social environment at Campus Wien University of Applied Sciences. Before joining the university, she worked in Vienna’s homeless and refugee support services and as a spatial planner at stadtland, where she contributed to urban and regional development projects. She currently works as a freelance planner within the raumlink network. At Vienna University of Technology, she teaches on poverty, precarisation and socio-spatial inequality, as well as in the Planning Studio “Raumwerkstatt”. As an external lecturer at Campus Wien University of Applied Sciences, she teaches in the field of urban transformations.

Research Interests

• transdisciplinary planning processes
• socio-spatial inequalities in planning
• critical planning perspectives
• integrated local, urban and regional development