Aljoscha Hofmann works as assistant professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, department of Planning, Building, and Environment. He is a member of the Council of European Urbanism Germany as well as a member of the European C.E.U. board. In 2009 he co-founded Think Berl!n, a think tank of young scientists and practitioners in the field of urbanism. Think Berl!n has been actively promoting different topics in conferences, publications and presentations over the last years. One of the main topics is the re-urbanization of the arterial streets that have been in decline since the beginning of the motor-age. He currently works on his Ph.D. Thesis based on the example of a large inner city brownfield development area along the river Spree in Berlin.