Biography

Robert Musil studied geography and history at the University of Vienna and finished his PhD at the University Innsbruck in 2005. His cumulative habilitation work in the field of human geography was approved in 2015 at the University of Vienna. Since 2001, Robert Musil has been a researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR); between 2007 and 2009 he was post-doc assistant at the University of Salzburg, and between 2014 and 2016 he was visiting professor for economic geography at the University of Vienna. Robert Musil has led the research group „Innovation and Urban Economy“ since 2016 and has been acting director of the ISR since 2018. His research interests lie at the juncture of economic and urban geography, including the areas of housing-market research, spatial innovation, and comparative urban research. His current methodology includes small-scale analyses at the level of individual buildings and building complexes, as well as the geostatical analysis on the individual scale.

Research Areas

• Property and housing-market research
• Small-scale processes of urban transformation
• Innovation processes in the urban context
• Comparative urban research

Research Projects

• Local buzz in der Wiener Forschung? Wissensintensive Cluster zwischen lokaler Einbettung und internationaler Orientierung (Local buzz in Viennese research? Knowledge-intensive clusters between local embedment and international orientation)
• Urban Geodata
• Wiener Zinshausmarkt (The Viennese tenement-housing market)
• Wiener Märkte – Epizentren der Wohnungsmarkttransformation? (Viennese retail markets - epicentres of housing-market transformation?)

Memberships and additional functions

• General Secretary at the Austrian Geographical Society
• Austrian representative at EUROGEO
• Lecturer at several Austrian universities and universities of applied sciences
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the "Biosphärenpark Wienerwald" (biosphere park Vienna Woods)

Recent publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Reiner Chr. und Musil R. (2023): The regional variation of a housing boom. Disparities of land prices in Austria, 2000–2018. Review of Regional Research, Online first. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10037-022-00176-z
(Open Access-Zugang: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10037-022-00176-z)

Musil R., Brand F. und Punz S. (2022): The commodification of a rent-regulated housing market. Actors and strategies in Viennese neighbourhoods. Housing Studies, Online first. DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2149707

Matznetter W. und Musil R. (2022): The commodification of height: vertical price differentiation in Vienna's condominium towers. In: Maloutas T. und Karadimitriou N. (Hrsg.). Vertical Cities. Micro-segregation, Social Mix and Urban Housing Markets. P. 332-348. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Musil R., Brand F. und Wonaschütz M. (2022): Wem gehört die gebaute Stadt? Eigentumsanalyse als Strategie der Bestandsstadt-Entwicklung., Standort, Online first. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-022-00809-y
(Open Access-Zugang: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00548-022-00809-y)

Musil R., Brand F., Huemer H. und Wonaschütz M. (2022): The Zinshaus market and gentrification dynamics: The transformation of the historic housing stock in Vienna, 2007–2019. In: Urban Studies, 59(5), p. 974-994. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211051906

Seethaler J., Musil R. und Dietrich-Gsenger M. (2022): Regionale Schizophrenie – Mediendiskurse zur Internationalisierung des Wiener Bankensektors. Eine Langzeitanalyse. In: Publizistik, 67, p. 301-333. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-022-00745-9 (Open Access-Zugang: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11616-022-00745-9)

Musil R. and Seethaler J. (2021): Evaluating M&As from a regional perspective: media discourses on the asymmetric internationalization of Vienna’s banking sector. In: European Planning Studies, 30 (10), p. 1872-1891
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2021.1965548

Matznetter M. und Musil R. (2020): Peripheral Metropolises in Southeast Europe. An Introduction. In: Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 162, p. 9-24. DOI 10.1553/moegg162s9

Musil R. und Reiner Chr. (2019): Synchronität der Büromarktzyklen? Dynamiken europäischer Metropolen im Kontext der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 63/1, p. 23-46. DOI doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2018-0011

Monographs and other publications

Musil R., Brand F., Huemer H., Köck P. und Wonaschütz M. (2021): Die Transformation der Wiener Gründerzeitstadt. Dynamiken am Wiener Zinshausmarkt 2007 – 2019. (ISR-Forschungsbericht 55). Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. 135 S. ISBN 978-3-7001-8935-0. Open Access-Zugang: https://www.austriaca.at/8935-0

Musil R. (2021): Geographie der Immobilienmärkte. In: Schneider-Sliwa R., Braun B., Helbrecht I., Wehrhahn R. (Hrsg.): Humangeographie. Westermann, Braunschweig. S. 426-432.

Musil R. (2019): Immobiliengeographie. Märkte, Akteure, Politik. Das Geographische Seminar. Westermann-Verlag, Braunschweig. 336 S. ISBN 978-3-14-160305-7.