Research Team

Dhara Patel, Ph.D.

  • Books

    • 2024: “Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans.” London, Routledge.

    • 2018: “High-rise havens: socio-spatial boundaries in the designs of new luxury high-rise condominiums in neo-liberal India”. (PhD Doctoral dissertation), University of Melbourne.

    Journal Articles

    • 2025: “Neo-colonial narratives in modern migration: Housing practices and class dynamics of Indian migrants in Frankfurt a.M.”
      In: Current Sociology, 74(2), pp. 216-238.

    • 2024: “There is No There There, MUSEUM MMK, Frankfurt, 13 April—29 September 2024 : report.”
      In: Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Taylor and Francis

    • 2023: with Inal-Cekic, Tuba Urban Narratives of Migration: Dwelling Practises and Identity Formation among Indian and Turkish Highly Skilled Migrants (HSM) in Frankfurt and Berlin.”
      In: Dwelling Together. Urban Housing, Neighborliness and Multilocal Homemaking., Berlin.

    • 2017: “Evolution of Elite high-rise condominiums in India: from global to neo-colonial?”
      In: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 456–478, UK, Routledge.

    • 2015: “Negotiating Identities in the Designs for New Luxury Condominiums in Neo-liberal India”
      In: International Journal of Design in Society, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 15–29, Illinois, USA, Common Ground publishing.

    Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)

    • 2025: “Veiled vignettes: Tracing the hidden heritage of Indian religious spaces in Frankfurt.”
      In: J. C. Barrientos García et al. (Eds.), With/Out identity: Zur Frage von Identitätskonstruktionen in Raum, Erbe und Communities, Vol. 6, pp. 132–145. Ilmtal-Weinstraße: Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag Weimar.

    Essays, Exhibition Catalogues & Commentaries

    • 2026: “Segregation by Design: Migrant Housing and the Afterlives of Colonial Spatial Ordering in Frankfurt”
      In: Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Working Paper Series, Vol. 2, pp. 111–120, Dinâmia’CET-Iscte, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon.

    • 2025: “Statements on Future Housing Settlements.”
      In: Doreen Mölders, Susanne Gesser et al. (Eds.), Alle Tage Wohnungsfrage: Vom Privatisieren, Sanieren und Protestieren. pp. 94–95, Frankfurt: Historisches Museum Frankfurt.

    Conference Proceedings

    • 2015: “Negotiation of identities in the emergent cosmopolitan Indian landscape: analyses of the designs of new luxury high-rise apartments in neo-liberal India.” Paper presented at the Living and Learning: Research for a Better Built Environment, 49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Melbourne, Australia. http://anzasca.net/2015-conference-papers/

    • 2014: “New cosmopolitans: Gated Communities in India”, The Architect, Journal of The Sri Lanka institute of Architects, Vol. 115, Issue 2, pp. 64–66.

Research Assistant

Student M.Sc. Architecture at
TU Darmstadt

hiwi-patel@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de

Carla Joraschky

Former

Research Assistant

Student M.A. Sociology at
TU Darmstadt

Jonas Wilzbach

Contact

Postal Address:
Institut für Soziologie - Stadt- und Raumsoziologie
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Residenzschloss, Marktplatz 15
D-64283 Darmstadt