Designing anti-fragile large-scale traffic frameworks

Traffic optimisation Goals Design and develop a framework to fuse physics knowledge in the design of the large-​scale system optimisation by means of machine learning, control theory, and simulation in order to achieve antifragile behaviour at scale. Provide an instantiation of the framework for traffic optimisation. Provide a More

Antifragile Urban Mobility: Traffic Control Beyond Resilience

Explore the future of urban mobility with ETH Zürich’s Antigones project. Pioneering antifragility in traffic control, it transcends resilience, adapting to disruptions for efficient and disruption-resistant road networks. Antifragile frameworks can recognize early disruptions and mitigate the negative impact on users and society.

Wie verändert sich das Verkehrsgleichgewicht durch Home office?

Während der COVID-Pandemie haben die Menschen ihr Verkehrsverhalten fundamental angepasst mit Verlagerungen vom öffentlichen Verkehr hin zu Individualverkehr. Insbesondere das Fahrrad erlebte einen regelrechten Boom während dem ersten Lockdown. Home office wurde zum ersten Mal global getestet und dies äusserst erfolgreich: die Pandemie hat die Home office Verbreitung More

disP 59/2, June 2023

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 59, Issue 2 (2023) is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Settlement Relationships and their Morphological Homogeneity Across Time and Scale

Homogeneous settlement morphologies negatively impact urban vibrancy, the environment, and emotions. Mainly resulting from the separation of functions such as work and living, homogeneous settlements have often been found around large cities.

Adaptive Urban Planning for an Uncertain Future: Infrastructure Interventions for the Technological Shift in Transportation

Planning cities to adapt to the future is challenging due to complex interactions between mobility, infrastructure, and land use. This challenge is exacerbated by the need to study future uncertainties such as ever-shifting demographics and industrial landscape, increased environmental and climatic changes, disruptive and unpredictable technological development, and More

Escape Determinism – Unlocking Desirable Urban Development Pathways

Look around you – what do you see? Unique urban landscapes with specific characteristics, identities, and landmarks? Or homogenous urban landscapes repeating similar shapes, materials, colours, and functions? Currently, homogeneity dominates the day-to-day realities of the European population, of which 74% already lives in urban landscapes. Homogeneity is More

Zwischen Wolkenkratzern und Zustimmung? Über Akzeptanz für urbane Verdichtung aus raumplanerischer Perspektive

Seit in Kraft treten des revidierten Raumplanungsgesetzes (RPG) auf 1. Mai 2014 sind alle 26 Schweizer Kantone und über 2130 Gemeinden dazu verpflichtet, ihre «Siedlungsentwicklung nach innen» zu lenken. Politik und Behörden müssen folglich ihre bestehenden Siedlungen verdichten, um Zersiedlung zu verhindern und den Flächenverbrauch pro Kopf zu More

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey ist Dandelion Award Winner 2023

17 Professor:innen für Start-​up-Förderung geehrt.

Research Assistant (Hiwi) for Building Railway Digital Twins

10%-30%, Zurich, fixed-term.

Die Zentren der Zürcher Agglo und die Transformation der Rückseiten

Die Zukunft einer Stadt entscheidet sich in ihrer Agglomeration. Aber wie kann die Zentrumsentwicklung in der Agglomeration gelingen? Das zeigt der disP-Autor Simon Grimm am Beispiel der Stadt und Agglomeration Zürich auf. Dieser Artikel erschien in der disP – The Planning Review und ist über diesen Link bis More

Urban Research Seminar

29.11.2023, 12:00 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 35.1. Urban Research Seminar is a new initiative hosted by D-BAUG with the aim of building a bottom-up network that brings together early career researchers and their ongoing urban research projects across ETH Zürich.

More Than Human Cinema

7.11. | ETH Zürich Hönggerberg and L200, Zürich. Featuring innovative experimental documentaries reflecting on various aspects of the built environment, this film series will take place over three dates across the Autumn 2023 Semester.

Glossary of Spatial Planning Terms. An Overview of Instruments and Terminology in Switzerland

As a resource for understanding and translating Swiss spatial planning terms, this glossary aims to promote consistency and coherence for education and applied research in English about Swiss spatial planning at the ETH Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development and beyond.

Cooperative Planning under Pro-development Urban Agenda? A Collage of Densification Practices in Zurich, Switzerland

Like in many cities and regions worldwide, densification is the current urban development paradigm in Switzerland. Although considered one of the main policy mechanisms for sustainable land use, densification strategies are mainly employed by the private sector, causing adverse social effects.

A Multi-objective Calibration Framework for Capturing the Behavioral Patterns of Autonomously-driven Vehicles

Calibration of car-following (CF) models is considered a very important task towards reproduction of individual vehicle behaviors and collective traffic phenomena.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Implications for Urban Essential Workers

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been unequal depending on the resources and opportunities people have to cope with the pandemic. Intersectional burdens have been reproduced, as care and maintenance work have fallen disproportionately on the shoulders of women and migrants. Given the ‘essentiality’ but low valuation More

Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS)

Registration: MOOC anytime; next CAS/MAS planned from November 2023.

CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials: Essentials

Registration until 15 October 2023. The CAS essentials (January 2024 to June 2024) offers knowledge and skills to question our conventional construction techniques and promote regenerative materials from resource extraction to end of life of the building materials, through a territorial approach grounded in Switzerland and neighbouring countries.

CAS in Raumentwicklung und Prozessdesign

Im Kontext der urbanen Transformation verschwimmen die Grenzen unserer Stadt-, Quartiers-, und Immobilienentwicklung zunehmend. Es braucht neue Verfahrenskombinationen, um die Ziele einer nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung zu erreichen.

BAB – Intercantonal Coordinated Monitoring of Construction Outside Building Zones

Pilot regions, the federal government and the Chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) are jointly drafting which questions and indicators related to building outside building zones should be answered or recorded in the cantons in the future in the scope of a monitoring (BAB). The More

LVML-Integration into Design++ at the ETH Zurich

The Large-Scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab (LVML) becomes part of Design++, the Center for Augmented Computational Design in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. It opens its usage to Design++ members to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and supports knowledge integration and co-creation to advance planning and design tools and workflows. Contact: More

Documenting and Promoting Multifunctional Agro-urban Landscape for Resilient Cities: a Case Study in Antananarivo

Antananarivo serves as a prominent example of how urban agriculture can effectively provide essential services for creating sustainable and resilient cities, specifically addressing food security and flood control challenges. The FCL Global research project has made significant contributions through landscape designs that prioritise and advance these crucial services, More

Fokusgebiete für den Schutz und die Förderung von Vogelarten der Schweizer Landwirtschaft

Die landwirtschaftliche Nutzung beeinflusst die Artenvielfalt, die zu schützen eine Herausforderung darstellt. Eine Studie hat potenzielle Verbreitungsgebiete prioritärer Vogelarten (Artverbreitungsmodelle) mit der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzungsauswirkung (Ökobilanzierung) verbunden. Basierend darauf wurde eine räumlich explizite Karte mit Fokusgebieten für den Erhalt und die Förderung dieser Arten produziert.

10 Jahre RPG 1

2. November, 14:00 – 17:00 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG E3. Das Inkrafttreten der Revision des Raumplanungsgesetzes jährt 2024 zum zehnten Mal.

Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference and Exhibition

12 – 13 October | ETH Zurich, Rämistr. 101. It is no longer enough to promote innovative science and design, we need to move from research to action. Keynotes: Peter Sloterdijk, Pierre de Meuron, Momoyo Kaijima and others.

«Unser Ziel ist es, Lösungsansätze für die rasante globale und schweizweite Urbanisierung zu finden.»

David Kaufmann ist für die nächsten zwei Jahre neuer Direktor des Netzwerks Stadt und Landschaft (NSL). Seine Prioritäten sind die Stärkung der ETH Zürich im Bereich der nationalen und internationalen Stadtforschung sowie die Förderung von Synergien zwischen den Stadtforschungsgruppen der ETH in Forschung, Lehre und Engagement für die More

Informationsveranstaltung MAS CAS Raumentwicklung

05. Oktober 2023, 18:30-20:00 Uhr | ETH Zentrum, Gebäude LEE, Hörsaal E 101. Informationsveranstaltung des Weiterbildungsprogramms MAS CAS in Raumentwicklung der ETH Zürich mit anschliessendem Apéro. Organisation Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung, ETH RAUM. Contact: Lidija Honegger.

Opening of the ‘Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab – LVML’

3 October 2023, 16:00–18:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 40.9 (Foyer).

E-Bike City: Nur noch die Hälfte der Strassen für die Autos

30. August, 2023, 18:30 – 19:45 | Podiumsdiskussion | Karl der Grosse, Saal, Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zürich.

Mieten: Teuer, teurer, verdrängt

Radio SRF 2 KULTUR | Mieten: Teuer, teurer, verdrängt | 14.07.2023.

Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert promoted to Full Professor of Sustainable Construction

Professor Guillaume Habert (*1977), currently Associate Professor at ETH Zurich, as Full Professor of Sustainable Construction in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Guillaume Habert’s research focuses on the sustainability of buildings and infrastructures. His aim is to implement sustainable construction practices using innovative building techniques More

disP 59/1, March 2023

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, March 2023 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

New Project: Urban Humanitarian Housing

Housing is one of the most significant challenges for humanitarian actors and displaced persons in cities. This new SNF project on Urban Humanitarian Housing hopes to contribute to improving humanitarian housing responses as well as the well-being and agency of urban displaced persons worldwide. This is a collaboration More

Wer bin ich? Die Agglo auf der Suche nach Identität

Sendung Regionaljournal Bern Freiburg Wallis, 22.05.2023, 17:30 Uhr. Was Agglomerationsgemeinden tun können, um sich nicht in der Gesichtslosigkeit zu verlieren. Zwei Beispiele.

E-Bike City

E-​Bike City is a lighthouse project of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-​BAUG) at ETH Zurich. Over the next three years, seven chairs will join forces to explore the effects of an urban future giving absolute priority to cycling, micromobility and public transport. Main Idea More

Öffentliche Erörterung Master Thesis MAS in Raumplanung 2021/23

4.-6. Oktober, ab 09:00 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIB Open Space 1+2. Die MAS Studierenden präsentieren nach zweijährigem Weiterbildungsstudium ihre Masterarbeiten.

Reflective Practitioners

10.1.24; 7.2.24, jeweils 18:30 | Öffentliche Vorlesungsreihe | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIB Open Space 1 + 2.

Öffentliche Schlusspräsentation MAS in Raumplanung 2021/23

30. Juni 2023, ab 14:00 Uhr | Zollhaus, Zollstrasse 121, 8005 Zürich. Raumplanerische Interdependenzen zwischen Ober- und Untergrund. Strategien für eine vertikal-integrierte Raumentwicklung. Veranstaltungswebseite

CAS ETH Raumentwicklung und Prozessdesign

ETH RAUM | Bewerbung bis 1. Dezember 2023. Das CAS in Raumentwicklung und Prozessdesign vermittelt Expertise und innovative Formate der Prozessgestaltung. Dabei steht der Mensch im Zentrum: Eine designorientierte Haltung, agile Vorgehensweisen und kollaborative Methoden bilden die Grundlage, um räumliche Veränderungsprozesse anzugehen.

Science-design Loop for the Design of Resilient Urban Landscapes

Urban landscapes face significant challenges, as they must transform towards sustainability while remaining resilient. Urban landscape transformation is a complex task for landscape designers.

TimeUse+ – How do the Swiss Spend Their Time and Money? A Longitudinal Smartphone Diary Study with GPS

How we spend our 24-hour days varies over time, be it by changes in one’s personal life or external forces like modifications to the built environment or government-level restrictions, as was the case during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. TimeUse+ is a novel survey methodology to collect data on More

Design Research Studios – A Research-based Design Process for Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Collaborative Thinking

Design Research Studios (DRS) are an education format directed to Bachelor and Master students in Architecture at ETH Zurich that integrate studies conducted by post-graduate researchers on complex issues like flood and urban heat. They offer an opportunity to develop landscape designs connecting people and their environment with More

CAS in Regenerative Systems: Sustainability to Regeneration

Crises hold chances. We are finding ourselves in times of deep, nested, and accelerating ecological, social, cultural, political, economic, and personal crises. This dynamic situation is highly complex and uncertain, unpredictable, and even chaotic. Yet within chaos is creativity, and creativity leads to chances for renewal.

NSL Colloquium: Transport Planning – Where do we go now?

6. bis 8. December 2023 | ETH Zürich, Centre and Hönggerberg. This colloquium brings together transport planning researchers and practitioners to reflect on the growth processes of western or industrialized societies by identifying, assessing, and operating their transport infrastructures.

«Die Idee»: Hanf statt Beton

Sendung auf SRF 1, 10 vor 10, 12.05.2023.

Advances in Transportation & Mobility Planning

5 June, 08:00–12:30 and 6 June 2023, 09:45–12:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT E 51, Siemens Auditorium. Two-​day seminar on design, new technologies, novel data sources, and equity for sustainable mobility systems.

Mehr Wohnraum, aber für wen?

6. Juni 2023, 17.30 | Karl der Grosse, Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zürich. Bauen ist das Gebot der Stunde, um dem aktuellen Wohnungsmangel zu begegnen und Verdichtung zu fördern. Neueste Studien über den Kanton Zürich zeigen jedoch, dass der aktuelle Wohnungsbau vulnerable Menschen verdrängt.

Sustainable Future Mobility Symposium: CSFM’23

6 June, 8:30-16:30 | ETH Zürich, centre, HG E5.

Crises hold chances. We are finding ourselves in times of deep, nested, and accelerating ecological, social, cultural, political, economic, and personal crises. This dynamic situation is highly complex and uncertain, unpredictable, and even chaotic. Yet within chaos is creativity, and creativity leads to chances for renewal.

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