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41 | April 2019: Urbane Qualität / Urban Quality

Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser

Um urbane Qualität zu sichern und entwickeln beschreiben wir Landschaftstypen, schildern das Beispiel Langstrasse Zürich, entwickeln Strategien für öffentliche Räume in ehemaligen Krisengebieten und folgen RadfahrerInnen auf ihrer Route. Derweil geht Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete gegen das Vergessen in der Architektur an, in unserem Interview erfahren Sie wie.

Wir wünschen viel informatives Lesevergnügen.

Einsiedeln und die Mythen. Quelle: https://www.sz.ch/public/upload/assets/588/panorama.pdf

Eine neue Landschaftstypologie zur Sicherung der Landschaftsqualität

Um die Qualität von Landschaften sowohl im urbanen als auch im ländlichen Raum zu sichern und gemäss entsprechenden Zielen zu entwickeln, ist eine flächendeckende Beschreibung der vorhandenen Landschaftstypen nötig. Diese dient als Grundlage zur Festlegung von Entwicklungszielen, zur Ausscheidung von besonders schützenswerten Gebieten sowie zur Beobachtung der längerfristigen Entwicklung der Landschaften.

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Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete from the chair for History and Theory of Urban Design is now part of the NSL. Learn in our interview how he investigates the basis of the discipline, brings non-Western experiences to the spotlight, and provides a basis for dealing with contemporary urban issues.

Tom Avermaete, Against Architectural Amnesia

Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete from the chair for History and Theory of Urban Design is now part of the NSL. Learn in our interview how he investigates the basis of the discipline, brings non-Western experiences to the spotlight, and provides a basis for dealing with contemporary urban issues.

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© Clarissa Livingston, ETH Zurich

The Scenic Route: The Effect of Urban Design on Cycling Route Choice in Berlin

As interest in cycling as a mode of transport rises concurrently with a rise in bicycle traffic volumes in Germany, modeling cyclists’ decisions gains importance. A recently completed online survey shows that in addition to commonly considered attributes like pavement type, the urban design characteristics «complexity» and «streetscape design» also have an effect on cyclists’ decisions to choose one route over another.

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Urban Prototype Bogotá, Chair for Architecture and Urban Design, Prof. Klumpner, ETH Zurich.

Public Spaces in Post-conflict Cities. Post-conflict Colombia and Ex-Yugoslavia

Daily news headlines inform us about crises situations due to conflict and economic issues leading to soaring hunger and mass emigrations in various parts of the world. The ongoing research efforts at our chair in post-conflict Colombia, post-apartheid South Africa, and Ex-Yugoslavia focuses on creating synergies between city, research and integrative design strategies in the built environment.

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Quartier Glattpark, Opfikon, 2018. Foto: Caroline Ting

Urbane Qualitäten: Lernen von der Langstrasse

Urbane Qualitäten sind heute in der Schweiz zu einem wichtigen Thema geworden. Fragen der Verdichtung, des Umgangs mit der Zersiedlung, der nachhaltigen Entwicklung, aber auch die steigende Nachfrage nach urbanem Wohnen und Arbeiten haben die Frage aufgeworfen, wie sich heute urbane Quartiere neu bauen lassen. Dabei lässt sich von der Zürcher Langstrassse einiges lernen. Diesen Fragen geht eine Ausstellung im kürzlich eröffneten Zentrum Architektur Zürich (ZAZ) im Museum Bellerive nach.

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Kurzmeldungen

BT North, Swiss Federal Council Member Ignazio Cassis and Professor Hubert Klumpner, January 2019 (ETHZ U-TT / Michele de Villiers)

Ignazio Cassis Visits Empower Shack

Swiss Federal Council member Ignazio Cassis visited the site of the Empower Shack Project in the township of Khayelitsha in South Africa, meeting Prof. Hubert Klumpner on site. Together with the Swiss Ambassador, they spoke at length about the project’s potential to reshape housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa. The Empower Shack project aims to reshape the approach to informal settlement upgrading by offering an innovative and inclusive methodology for the fair distribution of public space, delivery of basic services, and an urbanization scheme that combines housing upgrades with a safer urban environment and new economic and social possibilities. He posted about it later on in his social media account.

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In future, the new specialists could work on projects such as optimising mobility and logistics services. (Image: Fotolia)

ETH Mobility Initiative

ETH Zurich has launched the ETH Mobility Initiative together with the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) as first partner to further expand research and education in the area of mobility. The call for new partners and proposals is now open. Within this framework, a long-term research programme is being established aiming at bringing together competences from academic and industrial research in the field of future mobility. The overarching goal is to develop solutions that address grand challenges like the decarbonisation, digitalisation and development of the infrastructure in the coming decades. Should you be interested in supporting this project and become a partner of the initiative, please contact the ETH Foundation. The 2nd call for proposals is open 15 February to 6 May 2019.

Ein Stadtteil in der Vertikalen: Siedlung Telli, Aarau. © ETH Zürich, ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Neues EU-Projekt PuSH am ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

PuSH, a large, innovative European research project, has achieved funding from the EU HERA programme Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe (2019–2022). Distinguished researchers and non-academic partners from Denmark, Switzerland, Norway and Italy have achieved success in the face of fierce international competition, receiving €1 million from the EU HERA programme for the collaborative research project Public Space in European Social Housing (PuSH). The project aims to push forward our knowledge about the integration processes and cultural encounters that take place in shared spaces on social housing estates in Europe.

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Weiterbildung

MAS Raumplanung 2019/21. Bild: Timon Furrer, ETH Zürich

MAS, DAS und CAS ETH in Raumplanung 2019/21

Bewerbungsfenster: 1. Januar bis 30. April 2019.

Die Raumplanung in der Schweiz steht vor grossen Herausforderungen. Revision und Umsetzung des Raumplanungsgesetzes samt Integration der Infrastrukturen sind wichtige Themen der aktuellen politischen Diskussion. Zentrales Anliegen ist eine nachhaltige Gestaltung und Nutzung unseres Lebensraumes.

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Plakat MAS ETH in Housing

MAS ETH in Housing

Application window until 30 June 2019.

The MAS ETH in Housing is committed to contribute to finding solutions to the housing challenges in Switzerland, Europe, as well as in low and middle income countries globally through multi disciplinary training and highlevel research.

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Publikationen

This is a selection. Find a complete list in the ETH Zürich Research Collection.

Spatial modelling of origin-destination commuting flows in Switzerland
Thomas Schatzmann, Georgios Sarlas, Kay W. Axhausen

Spatial modelling of origin-destination commuting flows in Switzerland

When it comes to predicting inter-municipal commuting flows in Switzerland, spatial origin-destination flow models serve as an easier alternative to the classical 4-step approach in transportation demand modelling. They account for effects in neighbouring municipalities that may influence a particular flow at origin or destination and predict flows as accurately as complex 4-step models.

Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2019), Washington, DC, January 13-17.

Daniel Kiss: Post Socialist Urbanization Front
Daniel Kiss

Modeling Post-Socialist Urbanization: The Case of Budapest

Modeling Post-Socialist Urbanization: The Case of Budapest (Basel: Birhäuser Verlag, 2019), a new book by Dr Daniel Kiss, lecturer at the Institute for Urban Design, ETH Zurich, examines Budapest’s urban development, planning, and governance between 1990 and 2010. In the face of socialist urbanization’s structural legacies, the recent radical decentralization of government and resources and the impacts of a post-socialist war of ideologies, a trend is analyzed which leads to an urbanization mostly characterized by business-dominated development projects not integrated into any grand urban design.

The author claims this outcome to be typical of the development of post-socialist cities and presents it in an abstract model establishing links between particular historical background conditions and the phenomena of Budapest’s recent urbanization.

With a conversation between Kees Christiaanse, Ákos Moravánszky, and the author.

MirroringEffects_Angelil_Ciress_Ruby_Press_Cover
Marc Angélil and Cary Siress

Mirroring Effects: Tales of Territory

Book launch, Monday 6 May 2019, 16:00 | ONA, Fokushalle, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, Zürich.
With Marc Angélil, Cary Siress, and Hans Frei.

Mirroring Effects, written by Marc Angélil and Cary Siress, analyses political and economic practices concerning environment-making in the contemporary world. The presented case studies unfold as real-life tales chronicling mutually reinforcing processes that bind urbanization to capitalism. Taken together, the tales narrate the ongoing restructuration of built and lived spaces in diverse regions of the Global North and Global South, charting the course of capital-led development in settings such as Addis Ababa, Mumbai, Cairo, São Paulo, Berlin, Paris, and Shanghai. The stories told, if casually overheard, could just as easily be misconstrued as the stuff of incredible fables. But real they are.

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Janina Gosseye and Tom Avermaete (eds.), Acculturating the Shopping Centre (London Routledge, 2018)
Janina Gosseye and Tom Avermaete (eds.)

Acculturating the Shopping Centre

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors (architects/governments/citizens) on the other. In exploring how the shopping centre adapts to different cultural contexts, this publication highlights the importance of the shopping centre as an urban figure of collectivity that has the capacity to disrupt and even amend the conditions that it encounters.

Alpine cultural landscape: View from the mountain peak of Falknis towards Rätikon near Klosters. (Photo: Peter Rüegg / ETH Zurich)
Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne; Huber, Sibyl H.; Huber, Robert

Actors’ diversity and the resilience of social-ecological systems to global change

Biological diversity is known to enhance the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change. It is, however, unclear whether a high diversity of social actors analogously increases the capacity of social-ecological systems to maintain the provision of ecosystem services while undergoing socio-economic and climate changes. Here, using an empirically informed agent-based modelling approach, we demonstrate that both the number of actors (actors richness) and the diversity of the abilities and skills that characterize their management capabilities (actors’ functional diversity) are key determinants of the resilience of social-ecological systems to global change.

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Rurbanitas. Von der Schaffung urbaner Qualitäten auf dem Land. Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner

Rurbanitas: On the Creation of Urban Qualities in Rural Areas

The example of the municipality of Lichtensteig in Toggenburg (canton of St. Gallen) illustrates how a high quality of life can be created and maintained even in less densely populated and more structurally disadvantaged space outside of metropolitan areas. Through motivation and the inclusion of the local population, it has been possible in Lichtensteig to enrich the essentially rural baseline situation with urban qualities. The path taken to social prosperity, moving beyond pure market logic, has revealed locally realizable, action- and solution-oriented approaches to balancing out territorial inequities and could also turn into an effective model for other small communities.

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Anita Grams: Playing with Density
Anita Grams

Playing with Density

The Compass for Inward Development as a Problem-Oriented Methodology for Densification in Small- and Medium-Sized Communes

The revised Swiss Spatial Planning Law, which came into effect in 2014, and the minimum strategy of «inward development before outward development» obligate municipalities to direct their spatial development toward existing, largely built-up spaces, and to coordinate building zone dimensioning across municipal boundaries. For many small- and medium-sized municipalities in Switzerland, this means changing thought patterns with regard to spatial planning practice.

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disP - The Planning Review, Volume 55, Issue 1, March 2019

disP 55/1, March 2019

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 55, Issue 1, March 2019 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

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Auf_Abwegen_Pamphlet_Girot
Beiträge von Patrick Düblin, Isabelle Fehlmann, Christophe Girot, Anne Lacaton, Karen O’Rourke, Jacqueline Parish, Aline Schoch, Stalker (Francesco Careri und Lorenzo Romito)

Auf Abwegen

Alltäglich gewordene Wege und Räume nehmen wir kaum mehr bewusst wahr. Dabei entgeht uns, wie sehr unsere Bewegungsmöglichkeiten bestimmten Normen und Gewohnheiten unterworfen sind. Diese Ausgabe des Pamphlet führt die Leser bewusst auf Abwege, um eine neue Perspektive auf die vertraute Umgebung zu gewinnen. Das Zu-Fuss-Gehen bietet sich einerseits als Methode an, um unsere Wahrnehmungs- und Bewegungsmuster aktiv zu hinterfragen. Auf der anderen Seite dient es als Instrument zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem gestalteten Raum und als potenzielles Werkzeug für Entwurfs- und Planungsprozesse.

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Stephen Cairns and Devisari Tunas

Future Cities Laboratory Indicia 02

This second volume in the Indicia series focuses on the tools, methods and approaches needed for research on future cities. Following Marshall McLuhan’s famous provocation, we focus less on the ‘message’ and more on the ‘medium’ of research. This involves retreating from research contents—the topics, themes, questions, hypotheses, insights, ideas, concepts and thoughts—for the moment to consider the materials, methods, tools, techniques and approaches that support them.

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Redaktionsteam

Sascha Delz, Institut für Städtebau (ISB)
Isabelle Fehlmann, Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur (ILA)
Melanie Fessel, Institut für Städtebau (ISB)
Claudia Gebert, Koordinationsstelle NSL, Chefredaktion
Joe Molloy, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT)
Bettina Weibel, Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung (IRL)

  • 57 | März 2023: Landschafts- und Klimawandel / Landscape and Climate Change
  • 56 | Dezember 2022: Trans-disziplinarität
  • 55 | September 2022: Ort / Place
  • 54 | Juni 2022: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
  • 53 | März 2022: Agency
  • 52 | Dezember 2021: Risiko / Risk
  • 51 | September 2021: Umwelt im Wandel / Transitional Environments
  • 50 | Juni 2021: Nothilfe / Emergency Aid
  • 49 | März 2021: Future Cities Lab Global
  • 48 | Dezember 2020: Communication | Mediation
  • 47 | September 2020: Umgang mit Krisen / Adaption to Crisis
  • 46 | Juni 2020: Partizipation II / Participation II
  • 45 | May 2020: Partizipation I / Participation I
  • 44 | Dezember 2019: Methoden / Methods
  • 43 | September 2019: Verdichtung / Density
  • 42 | Juni 2019: Politik und Raum / Politics and Space
  • 41 | April 2019: Urbane Qualität / Urban Quality
  • 40 | Dezember 2018: Technologie beeinflusst Verhalten / Technology Influences Behaviour
  • 39 | Oktober 2018: Öffentlicher Raum / Public Space
  • 38 | Juni 2018: Big Data in der Forschung / Big Data in Research
  • 37 | März 2018: Arbeiten im internationalen Umfeld / International Context Work
  • 36 | Dezember 2017: Geräuschkulissen
  • 35 | September 2017: Ressourcen
  • 34 | Juni 2017: Ein Blick in die Zukunft
  • 33 | März 2017: Ein Blick zurück
  • 32 | Dezember 2016: Infrastrukturen
  • 31 | September 2016: Bezahlbar wohnen
  • 30 | Juni 2016: Vogelperspektive
  • 29 | März 2016: Unter der Oberfläche
  • 28 | Dezember 2015: Stadt und Nahrung
  • 27 | September 2015: Abschlussbericht Future Cities Laboratory FCL
  • 26 | Mai 2015: Nationalfondsprojekt 65, Neue Urbane Qualität: Abschlussberichte
  • 25 | März 2015: Mapping
  • 24 | Dezember 2014: Energie(wende)
  • 23 | September 2014: Resilienz
  • 22 | Juni 2014: Aktivitäten des NSL-Mittelbaus
  • 21 | März 2014: Informelle Siedlungen
  • 20 | Dezember 2013: Visualisierungen
  • 19 | September 2013: Bahn und Raumentwicklung
  • 18 | Juni 2013: Verdichtung
  • 17 | März 2013: Weiterbildung am NSL
  • 16 | Dezember 2012: Nationalfondsprojekt 65: Neue Urbane Qualität
  • 15 | September 2012: Inter- und Transdisziplinarität
  • 14 | Juni 2012: Wissenstransfer
  • 13 | März 2012: Projekte des Future Cities Laboratory in Singapur
  • 12 | Dezember 2011: Wasser / Landschaft
  • 11 | September 2011: Infrastrukturen
  • 10 | Juni 2011: Risiko
  • 09 | März 2011: Analyse unseres Verhaltens in den Städten
  • 08 | Dez. 2010: Alpenraum und Nord-Süd Transversale
  • 07 | Sept. 2010: Daten sammeln, archivieren, zur Verfügung stellen
  • 06 | Juni 2010: Mobilität
  • 05 | März 2010: Bilder und Videos
  • 04 | Dez. 2009: Gesellschaft / Soziologie
  • 03 | Sept. 2009: Nachhaltigkeit
  • 02 | Juni 2009: Städtebau
  • 01 | März 2009: Weiterbildung am NSL

Chairs

Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey
Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen
Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Prof. Maria Conen
Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman
Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert
Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas
Prof. Freek Persyn
Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid
Prof. Milica Topalovic
EiR PD Dr. Joris Van Wezemael
Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt
ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

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