The paper contributes to the discourse on super- and hyper-diversity in contemporary cities in the global North. The paper calls attention to what is called neuguineaisation as a separateness of the urban population that accompanies current forms of diversity. This new urban reality claims for empirical investigations of the societal implication of this phenomenon especially with regard to social cohesion in contemporary cities.

This intervention into the ongoing evaluation of Kiel 1969 within german-speaking human geography adds a personal voice to those debates. The focus of the paper is on practices defining the Department of Geography at the Technical University Munich during the 1980s. Discussing research and teaching, structures and personalities defining geography at this institution, the paper positions the revolution ostensibly emanating from the 1969 Geographentag in the context of everyday experiences.

The study analyses the social dimensions of energy landscapes. Furthermore, it will be discussed whether and how energy landscapes can be distinguished from other landscapes. It becomes clear that infrastructure measures for climate protection only appear socially viable if the production of sustainable energy landscapes is understood as the production of a discourse about sustainability, equality, and justice.