Category: NSL Archive

Category: NSL Archive

The Gotthard – a Natural Obstacle

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The content of the film is only available in German, French and Italian. The Gotthard has been the site of several major tunnel projects: the construction of the Gotthard railway tunnel, the Gotthard road tunnel, and the NEAT presented engineers with major challenges. Each of the tunnels shortened More

A Modern Industrial Landscape

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The content of the film is only available in German, French and Italian. The rising prosperity emerging in the course of the economic miracle lasted until the oil shock of 1973: rising consumption as well as increasing space and energy consumption were changing the landscape. Link to the More

The Grosses Moos Airport

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The content of the film is only available in German, French and Italian. The Grosses Moos area had been intensively cultivated ever since the Jura water corrections. Grosses Moos is one of the largest plains in Switzerland and, thus, had become the locale of several projects requiring large More

Relocation of a Residential Building

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The A2 motorway connecting Switzerland to Germany was routed through the northern neighbourhoods of Basel – houses had to be demolished to make room for the motorway. Meanwhile, the motorway has been placed underground and this upvalues the urban neighbourhoods. Link to the archives of Memobase

The Scarcity of Living Space

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The content of the film is only available in German, French and Italian. In the 1960s, there was a housing shortage. People increasingly moved from the countryside to the cities, and the increase of ever smaller households and the influx of foreign workers outnumbered the newly created housing. More

Tele-Shopping

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The content of the film is only available in German, French and Italian. Today, we use the Internet for a lot of our purchases. In fact, the ORL Institute at the ETH Zurich already presented a precursor in the form of teleshopping in 1970. Link to the archives More

Wohnungsbau Thun

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Die Wohnungsnot in vielen Schweizer Städten nahm nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg durch die Zuwanderung vom Land in die Städte rasant zu. Um zusätzlichen Wohnraum zu schaffen, setzte die Stadt Thun Massnahmen zur Erleichterung des Wohnungsbaus – darunter Überlassung von Bauland – ein. Link zu den Archiven der Memobase

The Valais Floodwaters

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The content of the film is only available in German. In Switzerland, floods regularly destroyed settlements, industrial plants, and agricultural lands. Whole plains were threatened by flooding. To remedy the situation, water corrections were made and flood-control structures erected. Link to the archives of Memobase

The Wyler Estate, Bern

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The content of the film is only available in German. By the end of the Second World War, people increasingly moved to the cities. Living space was in short supply, and cities suffered from a severe housing shortage. A lot of co-operative housing projects were developed – including More

The Linthal Floodwaters

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The content of the film is only available in German and French. The Linth Plains have repeatedly been plagued by severe flooding – most recently in 2005. In order to avert the constant danger of flooding, intensive work has been carried out on the Linth Canal ever since More

The Rheinwald Dam

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The content of the film is only available in German and French. Power-plant projects came into conflict with landscape conservation early on. In the 1940s, the villages of Splügen, Medels, and Nufenen were scheduled to be flooded to allow for the construction of the Rheinwald Dam. However, the More

Portrait of Swiss Farm Houses

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The content of the film is only available in German and French. Interventions in the landscape and townscape caused people to resist early on. In 1905, the Swiss Heritage Society was founded. Raising the awareness for the wealth of the country as to peasant arts & crafts and More

The Wahlen Plan

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The content of the film is only available in German and French. During the Second World War, the so-called Wahlen Plan provided for the expansion of agricultural land to 500,000 hectares to secure the food supply. The minimum area of crop-rotation land established in 1992 in accordance with More

New Version of the Law

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The content of the film is only available in German. In 1976, the first draft of a Federal law on spatial planning was rejected by the people. The Delegate for Spatial Planning, Marius Baschung, explained the differences between the first draft and the subsequent work on a second More

Back to a Healthy Amount

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The content of the film is only available in German. On June 13th, 1976, a referendum was held on the first draft of a Federal law on spatial planning. The draft law was rejected. Link to the archives of SRF    

Joint Planning

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The content of the film is only available in German. In his speech, Federal Councillor Furgler pleaded for a responsible co-operation between private investors and the public authorities in the field of spatial planning. Link to the archives of SRF

Decentral Concentration

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The content of the film is only available in German. Since the 1950s, Switzerland had been pursuing a strategy of “decentral concentration”. In 1965, the ORL Institute of the ETH Zurich was commissioned to develop models and leitmotifs for the settlement of Switzerland. By 1971 they were available More

The crisis of the Swiss City

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The content of the film is only available in German. At the beginning of 1960s, a marked out-migration of people from Zurich began, which lasted until the 1990s, as new living space was created on a grand scale in the Limmat Valley and Glatt Valley. Link to the More

Landscape Conservation

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The content of the film is only available in German. The Swiss Foundation for Landscape Protection was founded in 1970 by Pro Natura, Swiss Heritage Protection, the Swiss Association for National Planning, the Swiss Alpine Club and the Swiss Tourism Association. In 1972, the Federal Decree on Urgent More

Spatial Planning Concerns All of Us!

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Our behavior affects the space around us. We decide where we live, how we travel and where we spend our free time. This impacts on space. Spatial planning is entirely in our hands. Spatial planning is democratic. Spatial planning allows everyone to participate. Kindly supported by Cinémathèque suisse.

Spatial Planning Creates Quality of Life

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The task of spatial planning is to ensure that everyone is afforded a suitable living space. This can only happen if both public authorities and private construction companies assume mutual responsibility for the residential environment and maintain a philosophy of building as a whole. Kindly supported by Cinémathèque More

Spatial Planning Safeguards against Natural Hazards

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Spatial planning prevents damage caused by natural catastrophes by indicating where it is safe to build and where, for safety reasons, building should not be allowed. Spatial planning protects human lives, buildings and infrastructure. Kindly supported by Cinémathèque suisse. Place: Davos and Linth Plain Interviews: Stefan Margreth, Institute More

Spatial Planning Reduces Traffic Congestion

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Spatial planning provides for more compact settlements in which the distances to schools, shops, recreational areas and workplaces are short. The densification of settlements close to public transport stops or stations means that spatial planning also reduces car traffic. Kindly supported by Cinémathèque suisse. Place: Central Switzerland Interview: More

Spatial Planning Protects the Landscape

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Spatial planning devises the rules of the game that govern the design of living space. In order to implement these, planning needs effective tools, for example, the possibility to reduce or limit residential areas and even transfer building zones from one location to another. The landscape should be More

Spatial Planning Saves Resources

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The goal of spatial planning is to steer building growth in today’s existing cities and agglomerations in order to save on land, energy and infrastructure costs. Kindly supported by Cinémathèque suisse. Place: Ticino Interviews: Paolo Poggiati, Chief Planner Canton of Ticino Riccardo De Gottardi, Chief Officer Spatial Development More

The Historic Centre of Bern

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The content of the film is only available in German and French. After the Second World War, people looked for comfort instead of tradition. To make room for new buildings, some towns even wanted to demolish their historic town centres – including Bern. Link to the archives of More

Le Landeron

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In 1963, Shell bought land in Cressier (NE) and, in 1964, began to build a large refinery there that was put into operation in 1966. A Category 3 national road had already been planned in the Cressier area within the scope of the national-road project 1954-1959. The prospect More

The Spreitenbach Shopping Centre

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In the 1960s, Zurich’s rapid development began to penetrate as far as the community of Spreitenbach in the Limmat Valley. The former village slowly turned into a part of the Greater Zurich Area. In 1967, the foundation stone for the first Swiss shopping centre was laid here – More

The A2 and Its Structures

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The construction of national roads had to deal with a lot of topographic obstacles. Here, engineering feats came into their own. The new structure was to “perfectly fit into the grand landscape”. However, the impact of the national roads on the spatial structure were largely disregarded in the More

Modular-Type Construction

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The housing shortage that prevailed in the 1960s, had new construction methods emerge. Innovative construction techniques based on prefabricated concrete elements were tested to allow building more flats in a shorter time. At the same time, there was a call for spatial planning meeting the demand for new More