Category: Publications
Wohnen: Zwölf Schlüsselthemen sozialräumlicher Wohnforschung
The [Seasonal] Arrival City: Designing for migrants’ ‘transient right to the city’
Bodies of Water – A Swiss Landscape Trilogy
Pamphlet 26: Probing Zurich
ARCH+ 249: Learning Spaces
Post-socialist Discourse of Urban Megaproject Development: From City on the Water to Belgrade Waterfront
disP 58/1, March 2022
Future Cities Laboratory Indicia 03
Zu Fuss zu Netto-Null
disP 57/4, December 2021
Transitional Space – Six Japanese Houses Traversed
Das Eisenbahnbetriebslabor der ETH Zürich
Accepting and Resisting Densification: The Importance of Project-related Factors and the Contextualizing Role of Neighbourhoods
Gehen, Sitzen, Schauen: Körper und Landschaft
disP 57/3, September 2021
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Wohnen. Zwölf Schlüsselthemen sozialräumlicher Wohnforschung
Wohnen ist ein hochrelevantes und vieldiskutiertes Thema in Gesellschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft: Es ist existenzielles Grundbedürfnis und alltägliche soziale Praxis, knappes Gut und wohnungspolitische Herausforderung, aber auch Ausgangspunkt und Vision architektonischer Entwürfe und zukunftsweisender Bauprojekte.
From conformance to performance? A comparative analysis of the European Union territorial policy trends in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As several Western Balkans countries aspire to become members of the European Union (EU) in the (near) future, it is interesting to explore to what extent EU territorial trends are adopted in both the official national regulations and spatial planning practice. To do so, we: 1) screen EU More
An Experimental Urban Case Study with Various Data Sources and a Model for Traffic Estimation
COVID-19 as a Window of Opportunity for Cycling: Evidence from the First Wave.
Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics
Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism. Confronted by tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable More
Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture
Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Fisker’s output is closely associated with the functional tradition, a hybridization of international modernism and regional architectural More
The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual
Architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level. Through the work of his collaborative firm (Banfi Belgiojoso Peressutti Rogers, or BBPR), the editorship of publications such as Domus and Casabella, and his teaching at the More
Theme Issue ‘Modernities’, OASE 109. Journal for Architecture
Mapping Citizen Preferences and Priorities for an Alpine River Landscape
Landscript 6: Landscape Analogue. About Material Culture and Idealism
The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world.
Generationenwohnen
Urban Design in the 20th Century: A History
Conceptualising ‘Cultural Landscape Commons’: Retracing Ecological Thinking from the Swiss Alpine Landscape to Social-Ecological Systems
This paper retraces the fundaments of the ‘nature-culture’ divide within the study of Swiss alpine ‘cultural landscape commons’, showing how this notion was shaped by early ecological thinking expressed through environmental determinism, dynamic systems, and cultural ecology. These fields of research are seen as precursors to some of the More
Ride Comfort Assessment for Automated Vehicles Utilizing a Road Surface Model and Monte Carlo Simulations
Fest, Flüssig, Biotisch. Alpine Landschaften im Wandel
Robotic Landscapes – Designing the Unfinished
disP 57/2, June 2021
Thinking Through People: The Potential of Volunteered Geographic Information for Mobility and Urban Studies
The Spatiality of Poverty and Popular Agency in the GCR: Constituting an Extended Urban Region
The Gauteng City-Region (GCR) in South Africa is a paradigmatic example of extended urbanization, in which the legacy of mining and apartheid continue to impact spatial practices and the experience of everyday life. The dynamics between urban centralities such as Johannesburg and regional-scale peripheries established by this legacy More
disP 57/1, March 2021
Recovery Preparedness of Global Air Transport Influenced by COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Intervention Analysis
Solid, Fluid, Biotic. Changing Alpine Landscapes
The Alpine region is characterized by a great diversity in all spatial dimensions and qualities. This circumstance is not to be read primarily as the result of adfirst of all as an expression of the alpine topography, determined ministrative drawing of borders, but at the same time by More
Bypass Urbanism: Re-ordering Center-Periphery Relations in Kolkata, Lagos and Mexico City
A GIS-based Model of Outdoor Thermal Comfort: Case Study for Zurich
How far will you walk when it gets hot? The global climate is warming at a rapid pace, and cities around the globe are confronted with increasing temperatures. In this work, we study how the future climate will affect urban walkability in Zurich by modeling the thermoregulatory functions More
How to Achieve Parsimonious Urban Land Use: The Case of Greater Zurich
Land use regulations in Switzerland do not meet the requirements of the spatial planning act (SPA) in their guidance for parsimonious land use. If parsimonious land use is to be achieved, urban economic theories and price-based regulations must be leveraged to determine the intensity and balance of land More
Modeling, Estimation, and Control in Large-scale Urban Road Networks with Remaining Travel Distance Dynamics
The Universal Visitation Law of Human Mobility
Human mobility impacts many aspects of a city, from its spatial structure to its response to an epidemic. It is also ultimately key to social interactions, innovation and productivity. However, our quantitative understanding of the aggregate movements of individuals remains incomplete.
Exploiting Digitalisation to Plan Interventions on Large Water Distribution Networks
Cities rely heavily on the services provided by water distribution networks. These networks are large and complex, consisting of thousands of kilometres of buried pipes and dozens of facilities where water is treated, pumped and stored. Infrastructure managers are entrusted with the planning and execution of interventions on More
51N4E, Denkstatt, Endeavour, Design in Dialogue
The second volume in the ‘Chapters’ series from Brussels-based architecture firm 51N4E focuses on how design processes can be shaped through dialogue. First, it investigates their work together with two design-focused consulting firms, endeavour (Antwerp) and Denkstatt (Basel), wherein all three explore the boundaries of architecture, advocating openness More
disP 56/4, December 2020
Relational Theories of Urban Form. An Anthology
This project stemmed from the editors’ shared interest in theories of urban form and a reading seminar they jointly taught at the D-ARCH, ETH Zurich. In their ongoing investigations into questions of form in theory and practice, the relationship between the social and the material emerged again and More
COVID-19 and the Dilemma of Transport Policy Making
This short paper sets out the basic dilemma of transport policy making today, as how to strike the balance between the benefits of accessibility and the induced externalities in terms of sprawl, greenhouse gas emissions and congestion. The impacts of the Corona19 pandemic sharpens the dilemma.