Max Welch Guerra, born in Chile in 1956, came to the Federal Republic of Germany in search of political asylum in 1974. After studying political science at the FreeUniversity of Berlin, he earned his doctorate in 1991 and his post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in 1999, both at the Department of Social and PlanningSciences at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2003 he has been a professor of spatial planning and spatial research at the Bauhaus UniversityWeimar, where he has been a senior professor since 2022. He heads the B.Sc. andM.Sc. Urban Studies programmes there. Until 2021 he was director (co-director with Prof. Ines Weizman from 2015 to 2020) of the Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning. His many publications include such edited works as European Planning History in the 20th Century: A Continent of Urban Planning, ed. Max Welch Guerra et. al. (New York/London: Routledge, 2022); The Power of Past Greatness: Urban Renewal of HistoricCentres in European City Centres, co-edited with Harald Bodenschatz(Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2021); 100+ Neue Perspektiven in derBauhaus-Rezeption, co-edited with Ines Weizman et. al. (Berlin: Jovis, 2021); and Städtebau als Kreuzzug Francos. Wiederaufbau und Erneuerung unter der Diktatur in Spanien 1938–1959, co-edited (Berlin:DOM Publishers, 2021).