Mapping Future Development Scenarios Through Spatial Clustering with Land Use Models
Scenario planning is increasingly used in urban planning in recognition of the uncertain and complex interactions between the built and the natural environment. Scenario planning develops alternative stories about the future, as combinations of important drivers of change, qualitatively. The use of computational models can inform the development More
disP 60/4, December 2024
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 60, Issue 4, December 2024 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Hybrides Entwerfen für multikodierte Wasserlandschaften
Die Landschaftsarchitektur sieht sich im Kontext des Klimawandels mit neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Mehrheitlich statisch gestaltete Landschaften treffen auf neue, intensivere Dynamiken. Diese Verschiebung erfordert, die Sicht auf Wasserläufe und deren Schwankungen neu zu denken. Um auch in Zukunft robuste Landschaften zu gestalten, beschäftigt sich das Institut für Landschaft More
Agrarian Urbanism and the Politics of Food and Land
Urban farming and agrarian struggles are reshaping cities and urbanising landscapes. In Zurich and beyond, agroecological initiatives, political food movements, and global urbanisation projects reveal how urban and agrarian worlds are entangled and enmeshed – offering new ways to rethink planning, property, urban ecology, and the future of More
From Design to Research to Play: A Co-creative Process for Designing a Serious Game on Flood Management
TANTAN’EAU – a wordplay merging «Tantano» (to manage in Malagasy) and «Eau» (water in French) – is a serious game that helps decision-makers explore flood risk management. Designed to balance playability, realism, and the incorporation of architectural propositions, it immerses players in the challenges of peri-urban development in More
Experimental Planting: Garden of the 21st Century New Orleans
New Orleans is a landscape paradox – a city largely below sea level, which continues to sink as the sea rises outside the levee walls that protect it. Despite its capacity to produce a tremendous amount of biomass and ecological diversity, the city’s urban forest has been in More
Venice Biennale: Designs of Resilient Landscapes for Flood-Prone Areas of Antananarivo
10 May – 23 November 2025 | 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Swisstopo Colloquium: Large-scale Precision Modelling for Landscape Design
After six years of airborne LiDAR surveys, the classified point cloud of Switzerland – swissSURFACE3D – is now available for the entire Swiss territory. On this occasion, Dr. Philipp Urech presented academic research from the Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab (LVML), complemented by practice-oriented examples of his landscape More
Symposium – Stories from Naturecultural Places
26 May 2025, 13.00–17.30 and 27 May 2025, 09.30–14.00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon ONA E 25 Design in Dialogue Lab, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, 8050 Zürich.
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“The lack of vision has led transport policy down a dead end.”
Cities can expand their bike lane networks significantly without causing additional congestion on the roads. That is the conclusion reached by the ETH research project E-Bike City. Project lead and transport researcher Kay Axhausen explains the implications for traffic, the environment and costs. Article on the ETH News More
Tenure Lecture David Kaufmann: Weaving the Urban Fabric. The Governance of Sustainable Urban Development
3 June 2025, 11:00-12:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HCI G 3.
CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials – Hygrothermal Specialisation 2025
Online Open Doors: 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:00 | Link. The Application Window opens from July 2025. Start: Autumn semester 2025.
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Reasons to feel confident
From bridges and tunnels to railways, Switzerland has always invested heavily in the upkeep of its infrastructure. But how does it keep everything operating safely and smoothly while also instilling confidence that nothing will go wrong? Read the full article at ETH News
David Kaufmann is New Editor-in-Chief of the disP – The Planning Review
The plan is to (re)position the journal as a key publication in the field of planning. They will build on the long history and high reputation of the journal – as being owned by ETH Zürich / Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft (NSL), ETH Zürich and having close ties More
ENHANCE Summer School 2025: «Synergic Urban Systems»
Application deadline: 22 April | 1-6 September 2025 in Berlin.
International Cooperation Forum 2025 at ETH Zürich
At this year’s International Cooperation Forum, the Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo – including the first Urban Digital Twin for the Canton of Sarajevo was presented. The presentation took place during Session 4: Swiss Solutions for Smart Cities, in the presence of Swiss Federal Councilors Ignazio Cassis and Guy More
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025 ist da!
Kigali Unplanned Neighbourhood Upgrading Tool (KUNUT)
Kigali, Rwanda, has emerged as a pioneer in urban and digital transformation. Kigali sets a new inversed model of city development that expands from its hilltops downwards to the vital wetlands. The Kigali Unplanned Neighbourhood Upgrading Tool (KUNUT) provides a research platform that integrates digital technology with ecological More
At the Ends of Autobahn Urbanism
For a century, highways have shaped cities, economies, and national identities. But in November 2024, Swiss voters rejected a CHF 5 billion highway expansion, signaling a shift away from infrastructure-led urbanisation. As nations worldwide double down on highway-driven growth, Switzerland’s moratorium invites us to rethink mobility, territorial organisation, More
Negotiating Space for Housing Cooperatives in Latin America: The Case of Post Conflict Colombia and El Salvador
Can housing cooperatives contribute to reintegrating former combatants into civil society? Can they evolve into a broader housing strategy for marginalised communities? What conditions are necessary for their sustainable growth within national housing systems? This research project examines the emergence of bottom-up housing cooperative initiatives by former combatants More
Regionale Effekte von Wohnungsknappheit in urbanen Gebieten
Durch die anhaltende Attraktivität von Städten als wirtschaftliche, kulturelle und soziale Zentren ist Wohnungsknappheit in Metropolitanräumen in ganz Europa zu einem akuten Problem geworden. Das Angebot an Wohnraum in Kernstädten konnte mit der Nachfrage nicht Schritt halten, weshalb dieses Forschungsprojekt die Auswirkungen der Wohnungsknappheit auf die umliegenden Regionen More
Architekturen der Familie. Tagung zu den Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und Anforderungen an den Wohnungsmarkt
Während sich Familienstrukturen in der Schweiz rasant verändern, hält der Wohnungsmarkt weitestgehend an traditionellen Modellen fest. Das ETH Forum Wohnungsbau «ARCHITEKTUREN DER FAMILIE» beleuchtet aktuelle Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und innovative Wohnformen. Expert:innen aus Forschung, Architektur und Immobilienwirtschaft diskutieren Lösungen für die Herausforderungen des sozialen Wandels.
Den Lebensraum der Zukunft gestalten
Der ETH Master-Studiengang Raumentwicklung und Infrastruktursysteme bietet eine fundierte, interdisziplinäre Ausbildung in Stadtplanung, Mobilität und Infrastrukturmanagement. Durch die Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis entwickeln Studierende nachhaltige Lösungen für aktuelle Herausforderungen. In Kooperation mit Professorinnen, Professoren und Studierenden ist ein kurzes Video entstanden, um Studieninteressierte für diesen Fachbereich und More
Informationsveranstaltung: MAS ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design
12. März 2025, 9:00–10:00 | Online-Veranstaltung.
disP 60/3, September 2024
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2024 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Verkehr ’45: UVEK priorisiert Ausbauprojekte für Schiene und Strasse
Die Verbesserungen der Verkehrsinfrastrukturen auf Strasse und Schiene können nicht wie ursprünglich geplant umgesetzt werden. Der jüngste Ausbauschritt für die Nationalstrasse wurde von der Bevölkerung abgelehnt. Die Umsetzung des Angebotskonzepts 2035 der Bahn führt zu erheblichen Mehrkosten. Das Eidgenössische Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (UVEK) hat More
Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Regenerative Systems
Application: 1. June – 30. June 2025 | Duration: September 2025 – January 2026. CAS#1 Worldviews: From Sustainability to Regeneration
EPFL ETH Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design
Application: 1. January – 31. March 2025 | Duration: September 2025 – June 2026.
MAS Raumentwicklung & CAS Raumentwicklung und Planungspraxis
Bewerbung: 1. Mai – 31. Juli 2025 | Dauer: 25. August 2025 – 6. Februar 2026.
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
23. May 2025, 9:00-13:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, building: HIT, room: F12.
The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945 – 1989
21. May 2025, 18∶00 – 19∶30 | Book Launch and debate | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL Foyer.
Diversifying the Architectural Canon with «Crossed Histories»
Call for papers open until 15 May 2025 International Workshop 2. – 4. November 2025 | Place Congressi Stefano Franscinci, Monte Verità, Switzerland.
ARCHITEKTUREN DER FAMILIE – Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und Anforderungen an den Wohnungsmarkt
9. Mai 2025, 9∶30 – 17∶00 | ETH Forum Wohnungsbau | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Auditorium Maximum (HG F 30), Rämistrasse 101.
Infoveranstaltungen MAS Raumentwicklung & CAS Raumentwicklung und Planungspraxis
16. April und 17. Juni (MAS), 15. April und 18. Juni (CAS) 2025 | Informationsanlässe | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H35.1 und Zoom (Link nach Registrierung).
Rebuilding Everyday Life: Housing Practices in Urban China
27. March 2025, 12∶00 – 13∶30 | Public Lecture | online.
2 + 2 + 1 Eine Debatte über zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur
15. April 2025, 18∶30 | Zürich, Langstrasse 200.
Three doctoral theses from D-ARCH honoured with ETH Medal
During the doctoral awards ceremony on 24 January 2025, Matthew Critchley, Rune Frandsen and Kam-Ming Mark Tam received a Silver Medal for outstanding doctoral theses. Rune Frandsen, who is currently working as Scientific Collaborator at Bundesamt für Kultur BAK, receives an ETH Medal for his doctorate, that he More
Planetary Urbanisation and the 21st Century Agrarian Question
24. – 28. March 2025 | Colloquium | American Association of Geographers, Detroit.
Global Theories of Urban Design
28.02. / 07.03. / 14.03. / 28.03. / 04.04. / 11.04.2025, 13∶45 – 15∶30 | Guest Lectures | HIL E4, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg.
Built from Dust: Earth, Soil and the Modern Afropolis
25. February 2025, 17∶00 – 18∶00 (vernissage), 25. February – 9. May (exhibition) 2025 | Exhibition | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL Archena.
Built from Dust: Engaging with Modern Afropoli
25. February 2025, 10∶00 – 16∶00 | Colloquium | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL Archena.
Sessions on Territory – Agency: Architecture in the Civil Service
Mondays from 24. February 2025, 18∶00 – 20∶00 | Public debates | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E25 DiD Lab.
100 Ideas for the Western Balkans: Belgrade Underground Opening
13. Februar – 13. March 2025 | Exhibition | Museum of Applied Art (MAA) Belgrade.