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55 | September 2022: Ort / Place

Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser

Was braucht ein «Ort»? Bzw. wie verhindert man, dass bei zunehmendem Verkehr und Verdichtung ein «Unort» daraus wird? Die Antwort hat, zumindest gemäss unserem Newsletter, etwas mit (Um-)Gestaltung, subjektiver Wahrnehmung, Methoden, Technik und/oder Handwerk zu tun.
Und scrollen Sie bis ganz nach unten, bei so vielen Anlässen ist bestimmt einer dabei, den Sie brauchen.

In diesem Sinne: viel informatives Lesevergnügen!

E-Bike City © Lukas Ballo, ETH Zürich

The E-Bike City: Bringing Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Switzerland?

Lukas Ballo | Verkehrsplanung, Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen

Transport challenges in cities have never been more urgent. Mobility must be rapidly decarbonized and negative externalities of traffic are gaining more attention. On the other side, growing urban populations and economic growth generate ever more traffic.

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Figure 1 - Tools and methods used for understanding place and place-making. Clockwise from top-left: online surveys, field experiments measuring emotional reactions using electrodermal activity, serious gaming for multi-stakeholder engagement, hybrid point-cloud environments. © PLUS, ETH Zürich

Globescape: Understanding Place, Fostering Place-making

Michal Switalski, Marcelo Galleguillos, Laura Schalbetter, Johann Schuur | Planning of Landscapes and Urban Systems (PLUS), Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Unprecedented urbanisation is transforming productive agricultural land into standardised settlements in which people are losing their sense of place and the motivation to initiate change. How people feel about, interact with, or want different places to be shaped, has been systematically researched through the lenses of place and place-making, which are useful when combining physical landscape changes within a people-centred perspective.

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Point cloud model of the Paul Scherrer Institute © Benedikt Kowalewski, ETH Zürich

Field Reconnaissance

Benedikt Kowalewski | Landscape Architecture, Prof. Christophe Girot

As part of the design studio «Atomic Heart River», students in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) were asked to develop visionary concepts for the science campus of the future. In addition to point clouds, other design tools such as a GNSS drawing device and virtual reality applications were used to strengthen the site-specific qualities of the student’s designs.

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Start of soil sampling, photo by Lisa Emma Naudin, © Chair of Being Alive, ETH Zurich

Understanding a Place by Looking at its Soil

Stefan Breit, Uxía Varela, Insa Streit | Chair of Being Alive, Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard

Doing fieldwork – such as the study of soil, vegetation, or other living systems – is an essential task in the discipline of landscape architecture. It helps to understand and translate the existing conditions of a place to uncover its potential for future transformations. The Chair of Being Alive has organized a one-week residency in the Blenio Valley (Ticino) to learn and experiment with fieldwork methods.

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Kurzmeldungen

Sibylle Wälty and Freek Persyn under the Europa Bridge. (Photograph: Marcel Rickli)

Calculate or co-create?

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder – yet how do we find consensus on a shared amenity such as a neighbourhood? We took a stroll with two ETH architects to discover how they see their role as mediators between the conflicting priorities of urban consolidation, functionalism and aesthetics.  Article in ETH Globe (online).

Jennifer Duyne Barenstein

Jennifer Duyne Barenstein wird Leiterin des ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein übernimmt die Leitung des interdisziplinären Forschungszentrums ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE. Sie tritt die Nachfolge von Dr. Marie Glaser an und bringt langjährige internationale Leitungserfahrung mit. Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin ist seit sechs Jahren am ETH Wohnforum tätig und spezialisiert auf sozioökonomische und kulturelle Aspekte des Wohnens, Urbanisierungsprozesse sowie bezahlbaren und gemeinnützigen Wohnraum. Seit 2016 leitet sie den MAS ETH in Housing.

Interkantonal koordiniertes Monitoring Bauen ausserhalb Bauzonen

Andreas Moser, Dr. Ulrike Wissen Hayek, Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Planung von Landschaft und Urbanen Systemen – PLUS; Dr. Richard R. Hollenweger | Direction des autorisations de construire (DAC) - État de Vaud

Am 3. Schweizer Landschaftskongress in Rapperswil hat die ETH Zürich in Kooperation mit dem Kanton Waadt das Projekt für ein interkantonal koordiniertes Monitoring zum Bauen ausserhalb der Bauzonen vorgestellt. Das Ziel des Projekts ist die partizipative Entwicklung von Indikatoren basierend auf bestehenden Datengrundlagen. Wer den Posterbeitrag verpasst hat, kann ihn hier ansehen.

Portrait Sibylle Wälty

If you work in Zurich, you should be able to live there – but where exactly?

Sibylle Wälty | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Much controversy surrounds the SBB Neugasse project in the city Zurich. It will be put to the vote for Zurich citizens on 25 September. On a 30-​hectare site in a well-​connected location, only 375 flats are envisaged. This means that there is not sufficient densification, not as much housing is being created as would be possible. Spatial development scientist Sibylle Wälty shows how this area could contribute to alleviating the housing shortage. To the article on the ETH «Zukunftsblog»

In Zurich, the acceptance of residential densification projects depends on perceptions of how they will impact housing costs and rent. Pictured here: a neighbourhood in north Zurich. (Photograph: KEYSTONE / Christian Beutler)

“Yes, but not like this!” – Why densification often lacks public acceptance

David Kaufmann | Raumentwicklung und Stadtpolitik (SPUR)

Densification is a fundamental principle of urban planning and development today. Nevertheless, it often encounters local resistance. A group of ETH researchers has now systematically investigated factors influencing public acceptance of densification, focusing on the canton of Zurich and six cities of global importance. One key factor: affordable housing. Article at ETH News

Publikationen

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

Cover disP 58_1 March 2022

disP 58/1, March 2022

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2022 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

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The position of the City on the Water project within the Belgrade city pattern. © Ana Peric, ETH Zürich.
Ana Peric

Post-socialist Discourse of Urban Megaproject Development: From City on the Water to Belgrade Waterfront

This article traces the shift in urban governance of Belgrade’s recent megaprojects using the method of discourse analysis of daily newspapers.

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Christophe Girot, Dennis Häusler, Magdalena Kaufmann, Matthias Vollmer.

Pamphlet 26: Probing Zurich

Booklaunch 27 September, 18:00 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Haupthalle. More

Poster Learning Spaces ARCH+249

ARCH+ 249: Learning Spaces

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Christophe Girot, Ludwig Berger, Fabian Gutscher, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer (Hrsg.)

Bodies of Water – A Swiss Landscape Trilogy

Exhibition 4 – 14 October / Vernissage & Book Launch: 4 October, 18:00 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG Main Hall. More

Nitin Bathla, Jennifer Duyne Barenstein (Hrsg.)

The [Seasonal] Arrival City: Designing for migrants’ ‘transient right to the city’

Buchvernissage 6. Oktober, 18:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27. More

Christine Hannemann, Nicola Hilti, Christian Reutlinger (Hrsg.)

Wohnen: Zwölf Schlüsselthemen sozialräumlicher Wohnforschung

Buchvernissage 7. Oktober, 19:00 | Never Stop Reading, Spiegelgasse 18 / Untere Zäune, Zürich. More

Dimensions of place (adapted from Canter (1977) and Montgomery (1998)) and resulting concepts in bold (place qualities, sense of place, place affect) © ETH Zürich
Michal Switalski, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Operationalising Place for Land System Science

This paper introduces the concept of place for land system science to better understand how the transformation of place, as place-making, can be operationalised.

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Giancarlos Parady, Kay W. Axhausen

Size Matters

The use and misuse of statistical significance in discrete choice models in the transportation academic literature.

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Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies

The Department of Architecture (www.arch.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-​mentioned position. The professorship is located at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) (www.lus.arch.ethz.ch), which is part of the Network City and Landscape (NSL) (www.nsl.ethz.ch).