NSL – Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft ETH Zürich
  • Projects
      • Projects of the Chairs
        • Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey | Infrastructure Management
        • Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete | History and Theory of Urban Design
        • Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
        • Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman | Transport Systems
        • Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard | Chair of Being Alive
        • Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS)
        • Prof. Dr. Eva Heinen | Transportation and Mobility Planning
        • Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann | Spatial Development and Urban Policy
        • Prof. Hubert Klumpner | Architecture and Urban Design
        • Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas | Traffic Engineering and Control
        • Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid | Sociology
        • Prof. Milica Topalovic | Architecture and Territorial Planning
        • Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
        • NSL-Archiv
      • Former Chairs
      • NSL Colloquia – The NSL Colloquia are a bi-annual presentation of exceptional work under a rotating theme determined by the inviting professor.
      • NSL Projects
          • E-Bike City
          • Future Cities Lab Global
          • Urban Potential and Strategies in Metropolitan Territories
 – The Zurich Metropolitan Region as an Example (NFP65)
          • Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab (LVML)
      • NSL Forum
        • NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
        • NSL Forum: Pandemie? Mitten im Klimawandel. Was bedeutet das für die räumliche Entwicklung der Schweiz? Ein Dialog.
    Close
  • Teaching
    • Teaching
      • Bachelor and Master Degree Programmes, Department ARCH
      • Bachelor and Master Degree Programmes, Department BAUG
      • MSc in Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems
      • MAS/CAS in Regenerative Materials
      • CAS in Regenerative Systems: Sustainability to Regeneration
      • MAS/CAS Spatial Development
      • MAS Urban and Territorial Design
      • MAS in Housing
      • Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies
      • The teaching component of the NSL seeks to impart the knowledge and skills needed to develop the standard strengths of spatial planning and their interaction as well as the ability to develop strategies for the solution of spatial problems. These are central prerequisites for a responsible and successful exercise of planning functions in the service of the public commonwealth and of private companies. Especially important in fufilling these prerequisites is the quality of university-level education: graduate and post-graduate work as well as professional development in spatial, urban and landscape planning. The ETH Zurich has offered programmes such as continuing education courses and post-graduate programmes (NDS, now MAS) since 1965. The NSL (Network City and Landscape) is responsible for these courses and programmes.
    Close
  • Publications
    • Cover NL 65NSL Newsletter – The NSL brings the experts at ETH Zurich together and also maintains a dialogue with other groups that deal with or are interested in issues relating to cities and landscapes.
    • A map describing the different phases of India’s neoliberal highway programme. Source: The author.Publications of NSL Chairs – A complete list of publications can be reached via the following link, which also includes advanced search capabilities:
      • ETH Zürich Research Collection
    • disP – The Planning Review – The interdisciplinary scientific journal covers the topics of spatial development, urban planning, landscape and environmental planning, landscape architecture, traffic planning, and regional and environmental economics, as well as special issues on specific themes.
      • Instructions for Authors
      • Types of Articles
      • Publisher
      • Book Review Guidelines
      • Editorial Staff
      • Latest Issue
      • facebook
    • DELUS Cover Issue 1DELUS – Journal for Landscape and Urban Studies – DELUS is an annual publication by the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies at ETH Zürich.
    Close
  • News
  • Contact
      • en
        • de
        • fr
        • it
      • Search

    • Close
      • en
        • de
        • fr
        • it

64 | Dezember 2024: Gesellschaftliche Prozesse / Societal Systems

Sehr geehrte Lesende

Unter dem Begriff «gesellschaftliche Prozesse» machen wir die biokulturelle Bedeutung der indigenen Bevölkerung sichtbar, die Landschaft mittels App hörbar, Infrastruktur für die Transportplanung «responsive» (reaktionsschnell), globale Produktionsstätten transparenter und die Disziplin Städtebau weniger europa- und amerikazentriert. Zudem werden Sie erfahren, wie sich nach dem Abstimmungswochenende am 24.11. der Schweizer Verkehr weiterentwickeln sollte.

Wir wünschen viel informatives Lesevergnügen!

Close-up of the Awaska Alpa maquette made of materials from the Andean Amazon. Image: Santiago del Hierro © ETH Zürich

Nature conservation and Indigenous territories – Transitioning from the biological to the biocultural

Santiago del Hierro | Architecture of Territory, Prof. Milica Topalović

The 16th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) took place in Colombia during the last two weeks of October 2024. The city of Cali became the main stage for intergovernmental efforts to protect nature. A key outcome of the summit was recognising the critical role of Indigenous peoples in conserving global biodiversity. (Leer artículo en español)

More

Arnór Elvarsson (l) and Bryan Adey (r) talk, sitting at a table, with a Swiss map on the wall behind them © ETH Zürich

Why the Rejection of the 2023 Expansion Step for the National Roads? Idea for a National Overall Mobility Concept

Arnór B. Elvarsson, Bryan T. Adey | Infrastructure Management

On November 24, the Federal Expansion Step 2023 for Road was put up for a public vote. The Expansion Step 2023 is a project programme for national roads consisting of six major projects, including the widening of the A1 highway between Bern and Nyon, as well as three new tunnels in Basel, Schaffhausen, and St. Gallen. Professor of Infrastructure Management, Bryan Adey and researcher Arnór Elvarsson have studied the Swiss infrastructure planning process from early stages until the project completion.

More

Nadine Schütz working in the AudioVisual Room at ETH Zurich. Capture from the documentary Refugia (2024) © One Planet One Future.

Developing a Unity-based Tool to Integrate Sound into Landscape Design and Evaluation

Ulrike Wissen Hayek, Fabian Gutscher, Daniel Borges, Nadine Schütz | Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab (LVML)

The acoustic quality of outdoor spaces is receiving increasing attention in planning and design disciplines. Yet, it is very difficult for non-experts in acoustics to include the effects of landscape changes on the so-called soundscape in their daily work. In the Innovedum project «Unity App for Soundscape Design and Evaluation», we are developing a tool to help students build basic skills.

More

People walking on grass in front of a factory building. Biodiversity mapping of Kuklen Industrial Park with Municipality of Kuklen in the framework of the scientific exchange project New Ruralities Photo: Sandro Arabyan

Creating a Situated and Multilayered Understanding of Global Production Space Through Collective Interventions

Ina Valkanova | Newrope, Architecture and Urban Transformation, Prof. Freek Persyn

Rooted in the tension between concrete locations and global networks, between movement and stillness, space and place, and between clusters and dispersed zones, global production landscapes are challenging to understand. Where do these production spaces originate? Who owns, designs, and manages them? Due to the opaque nature of corporate ownership and confidentiality within the venture capital industry, answering these questions is nearly impossible.

More

A simplified national roads planning process in Switzerland, with the letters in the tasks’ upper right corner referring to the stakeholder feedback required © ETH Zürich, chair Bryan Adey

Responsiveness of Transport Infrastructure Planning Processes

Arnór B. Elvarsson, Bryan T. Adey | Infrastructure Management

Responsiveness of planning processes is the ability to meet changing societal transport needs quickly in ways that are acceptable to all stakeholders. In Switzerland, considerable traffic jams and overfilled trains indicate that planning processes could be made more responsive. As delays for travelers persist, their needs are not being met, which is like an additional cost experienced by society.

More

Women protest in downtown Amman, Jordan, 1968. Wikicommons, Photographer: Unknown

History and Theory of Architecture VIII: Seen from the South

Dr Cathelijne Nuijsink | History and Theory of Urban Design, Prof. Dr Tom Avermaete

A new core theory course for master’s students taught for the third time in spring 2025 argues that the list of ‘great’ cities needs to be rethought. Given the diversity of urbanisms around the world, it would be a disservice to limit one’s perspective to theoretical notions originating in Europe and America.

More

Kurzmeldungen

Book cover of the publication Researching Otherwise

DAM Book Award 2024 for «Researching Otherwise»

Dr. Nitin Bathla | Sociology, Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid

Multi-disciplinarity is on the agenda for the contemporary architectural debate, and Researching Otherwise – edited by ETH-based scholar Nitin Bathla – takes a broad look at the topic. Divided into three chapters dedicated to transdisciplinary, sensory, and restitutive methods, the book presents pluriversal research projects, which range from artistic and perceptual approaches via post-colonial cartography through to promenadology with the intention of developing a new methodological repertoire for the development of realms of knowledge in landscape and urban research.

More

In July 2024, the NERU consortium met in Zürich, hosted by the ETHZ (NEWROPE Chair) in the Design in Dialogue Lab. Photo: Simon Oberhofer © ETH Zürich. Image: listeners sit on chairs around a table. On the table there is information material, next to it a woman explaining.

New Ruralities (NERU)

Sophia Garner | Newrope, Architecture and Urban Transformation, Prof. Freek Persyn

New Ruralities (NERU) is an Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships programme, which brings together six design units within the universities of ULB (Brussels), POLITO (Torino), UDC (La Coruña), UMinho (Braga), UACEG (Sofia) and ETH (Zürich). The Newrope chair is participating on behalf of ETH. The partnership’s aim is to generate a kind of knowledge that would be true to the diversity and dynamism of rural areas, and beyond the association of the rural and farming, or beyond outmoded rural–urban dualisms. The project will culminate in an international symposium in the summer of 2025. Contact

Hybride Bauelemente aus den wiederverwendbaren Materialien Holz und Lehm sollen als Deckenplatten sowie Innen- und Aussenwände zum Einsatz kommen und Beton und Stahl vermeiden. (Bild: Pallavi Keshri and Linus Schmitz / ETH Zürich)

Holz, Lehm und ein digitales Ökosystem für eine zukunftsfähige Bauwirtschaft

Michael Keller | ETH Hochschulkommunikation

Die gängigen Materialien und Praktiken in der Schweizer Bauwirtschaft sind klimaschädlich, ressourcenintensiv und erzeugen viel Abfall. An der ETH Zürich sind zwei Flagship-Projekte von Innosuisse gestartet, um das Schweizer Bauwesen nachhaltig zu transformieren: Während «Swircular» das Fundament für eine zirkuläre Bauwirtschaft legt, ermöglicht «Think Earth» regeneratives Bauen mit Holz und Lehm. Mit diesen Projekten fördert Innosuisse systemische Innovationen für den Umbau der Wirtschaft hin zu Netto-Null Treibhausgasen.

Publikationen

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

Cover disP 60/2 June 2024

disP 60/2, June 2024

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 60, Issue 2, June 2024 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
More

A visual summary of the challenges and opportunities related to the infrastructure planning process. They are further elaborated in the report. © ETH Zürich, chair Bryan Adey
Arnor B. Elvarsson, Bryan T. Adey

The transport infrastructure planning process in Canton Zürich. With examples of planning infrastructure in Dübendorf-Hinwil corridor

This report investigates how transport infrastructure, like roads and railways, is planned in the canton of Zurich from the perspective of the stakeholders responsible for shaping the planning outcomes, e.g., Federal offices of Road and Transport.

More

An Zihao, Caroline Mullen, Xiaodong Guan, Dick Ettema, Eva Heinen

Shared micromobility, perceived accessibility, and social capital

While the impacts of shared micromobility (SMM) on the environment and transport systems are being extensively researched, its societal implications and the influence of the social environment on the use of SMM remain largely unexplored.

More

DELUS Cover Issue 1

DELUS Issue 1

DELUS Issue 1 adopts a water-centric lens through the notion of Chasing Water and presents a collection of writings forming an anthology.

More

Cover of the publication Amazonia gta Papers
Santiago del Hierro, Johanna Just, Ciro Miguel (eds.)

Amazônía

The Amazon’s ecology and history of inhabitation are deeply intertwined with the natural world. In this issue of gta papers, researchers from diverse backgrounds lend their voices to challenge conventional narratives of colonization and modernization.

More

Entrance area of the Odelo Factory Hall. © Ina Valkanova, ETH Zürich
Ina Valkanova

Behind Closed Doors

Spaces of global production are formed by a diverse set of spatial figures that result from and support a global division of labor. Spaces of global production include multinational manufacturing networks, industrial agglomerations, plantations, logistics corridors, and special economic zones.

More

Image text: inhabing material incompletion. A photograph of Megan's dhung squatting a ruderal fallow along Dwarka Expressway in Delhi region @ Nitin Bathla, ETH Zürich
Nitin Bathla

Transhumance Urbanism as an Urban Otherwise: Inhabiting Agrarian Incompletion at the Intersections of Extended Urbanisation-Extended Ruralisation

Amid the ongoing transformation of agrarian territories in peripheral geographies across the world through extended urbanisation, this paper delves into the persistence of peasant and pastoral strategies amidst the closing down effects of land enclosure and fragmentation.

More

Miriam Meuth, Julia von Mende, Antonia Krahl, Eveline Althaus (Hg.)

Wohnen erforschen. Qualitative Methoden und forschungspraktische Reflexionen

Wie kann Wohnen wissenschaftlich erforscht werden? Die Beiträger:innen bündeln erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum eine Vielfalt an Zugängen der qualitativen Wohn(ungs)forschung.

More

Aktuell

This is a selection. Head over to our News-Page for more.

Tagung Landmanagement 2025, Symbolbild: Feld wird bewässert, Wasserbüffel

Tagung Landmanagement 2025: Klimaresilientes Wassermanagement im ländlichen Raum

23. Januar 2025 | ETH Zürich, Audimax, HG F 30, Rämistrasse 101.

More

Plakat Jubiläum und Vernissage ETH RAUM. Text auf dem Poster steht im Fliesstext.

Jubiläumsfeier ETH RAUM & Vernissage

7. Februar 2025, 17:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL D 57.1.

More

NSL Colloquium: Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes

Video now online!

The colloquium investigated the relationship between the design and maintenance of living systems, seeking to cultivate practices, terminology, and theoretical insights into approaches that attempt to maintain otherwise.

More

Redaktionsteam

Silvia Converso, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Landschaftsarchitektur
Claudia Gebert und Noelle Paulson, Koordinationsstelle NSL, Chefredaktion
Michiel van Iersel, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Viera Klasovitá, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT)
Klearjos Papanicolaou, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Maarten Van Strien, Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung (IRL)

Folgen Sie uns auf LinkedIn!

  • 65 | März 2025: Globale Forschung / Global Research
  • 64 | Dezember 2024: Gesellschaftliche Prozesse / Societal Systems
  • 63 | September 2024: Ressourcen und Energie / Resources and Energy
  • 62 | Juni 2024: Digitale Planungstools / Digital Planning Tools
  • 61 | März 2024: Mobilität und Transport-Infrastruktur / Mobility and Transport Infrastructure
  • 60 | Dezember 2023: Resiliente Urbane Systeme / Resilient Urban Systems
  • 59 | September 2023: Nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme / Sustainable Food Systems
  • 58 | Juni 2023: Wissensproduktion / Knowledge Production
  • 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 | Mai 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. Eva Heinen
Prof. Damian Jerjen
Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas
Prof. Freek Persyn
Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid
Prof. Milica Topalovic
Prof. Martina Voser

Contact

Address
ETH Zürich
NSL – Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
HIL H 44.2
8093 Zürich

NSL Director
Director: Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
Deputy Director: Prof. Milica Topalovic

NSL Coordination
Claudia Gebert
Telephone: +41 (0)44 633 36 33

 

Register for the NSL Newsletter

disP Publication Office

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. sc. techn. Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, Spatial planner ETH/NDS,
Telephone +41 (0)44 633 29 47

Mailing address
ETH Zürich
Redaktion disP
NSL – Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
HIL H 33.3
8093 Zürich
Fax +41 (0)44 633 12 15
E-Mail

 

NSL Archive (gta)

Research and Bequest Archive for
Swiss Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning

Consultation Requests

Mailing address
ETH Zürich
NSL Archive (gta)
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
HIL C 65.2
CH-8093 Zurich

 

 
Privacy Policy