| Christiane Thalgott is a Munich building officer
with degrees in architecture. She was born in 1942 in Breslau,
Silesia, graduated from high school in Hamburg in 1961 and got her
journeyman's certificate as an interior decorator in 1963. From
1964 to 1971 she studied architecture at the Technical Universities
of Braunschweig and Munich, where she completed her degree. From
1971 to 1972 she was a research associate at the Institute for
Rural Building and Settlement at the TU Munich. She was a city
planner in the Norderstedt city building department from 1972 to
1987 and headed the Norderstedt-Mitte working group beginning in
1976. She was a city building officer in Kassel from 1987 to 1992.
In 1992 she was elected as city building officer in Munich, and
reelected in 1998. From 1985 to 1987 she taught at the University
of Kiel. In 1992 she began lecturing at the TU Munich, receiving a
teaching post there in 1996. She is a member of the AK (archive for
community sciences), DASL (German academy for city and rural
planning), the DIFU Kuratorium (German institute for urban
studies), Werkbund, and Wohnbund. She has published numerous works
on city development and housing politics. |
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