48 | Dezember 2020: Communication | Mediation - NSL – Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft

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Wo immer gegensätzliche Parteien gemeinsam etwas erreichen wollen, ist Kommunikation und Mediation die einzige zielführende Methode. Wie das genau gelingen kann, zeigen wir Ihnen anhand der Beispiele Genf und Umland, Generationenwohnen, der «Performance» von Städtemodellen, ÖV-Verspätungsmeldungen, dem höchst erfolgreichen Pflanzenhandel des Botanischen Gartens Zürich und der «Multi-Objekt-Optimierung» für Ökosystemleistungen.

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Territories of potentials for Geneva region in 2050: bi-national metropolis (pink); global-local territories (dark magenta); post-fossil infrastructures (purple); metropolitan countryside (yellow); agri-landscape rooms (green); vital streams and canopies (blue); mountain parks (brown). © Team Grand Genève et son sol: ETH Zürich Architecture of Territory Prof. Milica Topalović, Uni.Lu FHSE Prof. Florian Hertweck, and Raumbureau Rolf Jenni. Cartography: Karoline Kostka and Nikos Katsikis. Illustration Karoline Kostka and Muriz Djurdjevic.

Bringing the Land Back into the City – Possibilities for Ecological Transition in Geneva

Karoline Kostka, Prof. Milica Topalović | Architecture and Territorial Planning

With a fast population increase and a high housing demand projected to continue in the coming decades, Geneva encounters a profound challenge. Since decades, the city has been spilling over across the national border. Urban growth and land consumption in the Canton and in the French part of the Genevian agglomeration continue to put pressure on settlement areas and to erode agricultural and natural landscapes. The social fabric across the region is increasingly uneven. How can thus designers offer design and planning strategies, not only for the city of Geneva, but for the entire region?

© Eveline Althaus, ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Generationenwohnen – von Erfahrungen innovativer Wohnprojekte lernen

Eveline Althaus, Marie Glaser | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Die Idee des Generationenwohnens hat heute hohe Konjunktur. Immer mehr Wohnprojekte setzen sich zum Ziel, das Zusammenleben und die Solidarität zwischen den Generationen zu fördern. Hierzu spielt Kommunikation eine zentrale Rolle und immer wieder gilt es zwischen unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu vermitteln. Ein neues Forschungsprojekt am ETH Wohnforum nimmt sich dieser Thematik an.

The urban scale model of the project of Les Halles is presented to the public, Paris, 1968. (Photo by Georges Melet/Paris Match via Getty Images)

Exploring Urban Scale Models

Maxime Zaugg | History and Theory of Urban Design, Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete

Urban scale models are crucial for communicating urban design ideas between various stakeholders, from those directly involved in a project – e.g. client, developer, contractor, municipality – to the broader public. However, our knowledge about this tool is limited. Understanding the shifting role of urban design from the 1960s, when participatory design processes were popularized, to today, highlights the importance of the urban scale model as communicative tool in urban design.

Passengers’ thinking and actual delay in case of incomplete information of railway delays © IVT, ETH Zurich

Communicating Railway Delays and Adjusted Timetables: the Role of Incomplete Information to Passengers in Railway Operations

Dr. Nuannuan Leng | Transport Systems, Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman

In case of railway delays, train operating companies update the planned timetable to the actual disturbed conditions to keep offering high quality services to travellers. Passengers face an adjusted service, and corrective actions (a disposition timetable). This communication is often assumed to be perfect, complete and immediate, which is hardly the case. There is only one correct information; in contrast, there are many possible ways, in which information is partially wrong.

Beispiele für Pflanzentransfers des Botanischen Gartens Zürich von Amerika nach Europa im Zeitraum 1858 bis 1874. Die Sendungen wurden entweder in London verkauft oder weiter nach Zürich spediert. © Dunja Richter, ETH Zürich

Von San Francisco bis Moskau. Der Botanische Garten Zürich als ein Drehkreuz im globalen Pflanzenhandel des 19. Jahrhunderts

Dunja Richter | Landschaftsarchitektur, Prof. Christophe Girot

Wie gelang es dem Botanischen Garten der Universität Zürich, in einem Land ohne Häfen, Kolonien und fernab der grossen Gartenbauzentren, durch Handel und Austausch neue Pflanzen einzuführen, in der Gartenkultur zu verbreiten und sich als Akteur im globalen Pflanzenhandel des 19. Jahrhunderts zu profilieren? Damit beschäftigt sich die Dissertation «Von der Rarität zur Alltagskultur».

An example result of the optimization framework embedded in a decision support system. In the output map, the blue pixels represent the proposed new residential areas in Singapore that minimize loss of UES and maximize compactness. On the left hand side of the user interface, the iterations and the final trade-off curve are displayed. © Sergio Wicki

Participatory Multi-objective Optimization for Planning Dense and Green Cities

Sergio Wicki | Natural Capital Singapore | Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems, Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

In many cities around the world, urban ecosystem services (UES) are under pressure. With a growing urban population, the pressure on UES in the remaining open spaces increases. The planning of new residential areas to accommodate urban dwellers increasingly requires the consideration of UES, especially when taking into account the irreversibility of urban development.

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Projektstart: Digitale Nachbarschaften

Liv Christensen, Zsófia Glatz | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Online-Tools für die nachbarschaftliche Vernetzung gewinnen weltweit an Popularität, nicht zuletzt seit Covid-19. Das interdisziplinäre SNF-Projekt «Digitale Nachbarschaften – Lokale Online-Räume und ihr Potenzial für soziale Inklusion» nimmt den Einfluss digitaler Netzwerke auf nachbarschaftliche Beziehungen unter die Lupe und identifiziert ihr Potenzial für eine inklusive Nachbarschaft. Damit soll ein im Schweizer Kontext noch junges und weitgehend unerforschtes Phänomen beleuchtet werden.

Neue Gastdozentin Landschaftsarchitektur: Maren Brakebusch

Maren Brakebusch | Departement Architektur

Maren Brakebusch ist Gesamtbüroleiterin bei Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten und steht der Geschäftsleitung der vier Bürostandorte in Zürich, London, Berlin und Paris vor. Sie studierte Landschaftsarchitektur an der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Nebst Jury- und Vortragstätigkeiten unterrichtet sie seit 2017 Architekturstudierende an der School Of Architecture in Potsdam. An der ETH Zürich bleibt sie für ein Jahr und ist aktuell für das Lehrformat Neue Stadtlandschaften – Brennpunkte urbaner Verdichtung verantwortlilch.

Aktualisierung Raum+ Kanton Obwalden

Sina Wild | Planung von Landschaft und Urbanen Systemen (PLUS)

Raum⁺ schafft sachliche Grundlagen zur Übersicht von freien Baulandreserven. Im Kanton Obwalden wurde 2016 eine Ersterhebung durchgeführt. Im Sommer 2020 wurde der gesamte Perimeter aktualisiert. Dabei sind die Gespräche mit den Gemeindevertreter*innen ein zentraler Ansatz der Methode. Die aktualisierten Daten sind auf der Raum⁺-Plattform aufgeschaltet und stehen den jeweiligen Gemeinden zur Verfügung. Sina Wild

3D DSS for Supporting the Planning of Electric Power Systems

Ulrike Wissen Hayek | Planung von Landschaft und Urbanen Systemen (PLUS)

In a cooperation between the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation (IKG) and the Chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) a 3D Decision Support System (3D DSS) has been developed as a communication tool to support the planning of power lines. Now the 3D DSS has been enhanced by the modeling and visualization of underground cables. Ulrike Wissen Hayek

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MaaS bundle design: Fig. 3. Exemplary stated choice experiment (Ho et al., 2020a).

Daniel J. Reck, David A. Hensher, Chinh Q. Ho

MaaS Bundle Design

Mobility service bundling has received a lot of attention recently due to its centrality to Mobility as a Service (MaaS) business models and potential to foster sustainable travel behavior. Despite an increasing number of academic studies and commercial trials, however, there is a surprising dearth of research on how to design MaaS bundles in the first place. In this paper, we synthesize 10 fundamental design dimensions for MaaS bundles and discuss how the resulting framework can be used to disentangle differences in design from differences in outcome of previous (and future) stated preference studies.

Rewriting Architecture Cover

Editors: Floris Alkemade, Michiel van Iersel, Jarrik Ouburg, Mark Minkjan

Rewriting Architecture 10+1 Actions: Tabula Scripta

Rewriting Architecture explores and embraces the potential of place. The book claims that the idea of ‘tabula rasa’, or creating from scratch, is no longer a viable option. It considers the quality of the existing urban and social fabric – the tabula scripta – as an inspiration, motivation and starting point of design. How can this context be read, understood, valued and further developed?

Identifying Changes in Bicycle Accident Trends Using GIS and Time Series Information in the City of Zürich:

Clemens Kielhauser, Julia S. Herrmann, Bryan T. Adey

Identifying Changes in Bicycle Accident Trends Using GIS and Time Series Information in the City of Zürich

This paper presents a case study based on accident reports from the Zurich City Police. Using a joint GIS and time series analysis based on negative binomial regression, the data is analyzed to identify trends in accident development for several accident subgroups (e.g., bicycle accidents, senior citizen accidents, e-bike accidents) and specific locations.

Projektdokumentation Jugendjobbörse Winterthur

Angela Birrer, Eveline Althaus

Projektdokumentation Jugendjobbörse Winterthur

Der Bericht zum einjährigen Forschungsprojekt beleuchtet die Jugendjobbörse Winterthur. Via eine App werden Jugendliche an meist ältere Menschen vermittelt, um technische Geräte zu erklären, kleinere Arbeiten auszuführen oder Botengänge zu erledigen.

Sustainable funding strategies for stormwater infrastructure management: A system dynamics model:

Yekenalem Abebe, Bryan T. Adey, Solomon Tesfamariam

Sustainable Funding Strategies for Stormwater Infrastructure Management: A System Dynamics Model

Most cities in Canada do not charge a stormwater fee; consequently, stormwater programs may need to compete with other funding priorities in public works. This often leads to a lack of dedicated and predictable cash flow, which can limit municipalities’ capacity to sustain stormwater services.

Book Cover: Densifying the City? Global Cases and Johannesburg

Lindsay Blair Howe

Densification Processes in Comparison: Alexandra and Marlboro South

This chapter illustrates the inadequacy of the term ‘informality’ by applying two categories of socio-spatial analysis: origin stories and urban outcomes. Densification (and de-densification) is a historical process of urbanisation – an area’s origin story – that produces socially constructed spaces – urban outcomes – in the built environment.

The 3D model of the case-study street (future four-storey scenario) including color-coded construction years and its outdoor lighting in 2019. Source: 3D model: Walczak, 2019; lighting reconstruction: Kretzer, 2019-2020

David Michael Kretzer & Michael Walczak

The Impact of Vertical Densification on Public Lighting in Informal Settlements: Using Virtual Environments as an Evaluation Tool for Policy Making

There are a variety of reasons to support the premise that public lighting is beneficial to urban communities. At the same time, a key challenge for the provision of public lighting in informal settlements is their constant physical transformation. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the application of virtual environments (VEs) in lighting planning and policy making.

Fig. 1. The Three Horizons framework used to convene dialogue about how to achieve transformation. Each horizon represents a combination of particular ways of doing things (e.g. approach, technology, actions, values, mindsets). The viability of these ways change over time as surrounding conditions change, with the third horizon dominated system eventually emerging as more viable. The framework helps to identify: (1) Challenges that dominate the present that inhibit progress towards a more viable way of doing things (Horizon 1); (2) Features of a desired future systems (Horizon 3) and the innovations needed for new systems to emerge (Horizon 2). For the latter, distinctions are made between innovations that help create forward momentum (H2+) and those likely to be captured by existing systems and which can reinforce the status quo (H2−). This framework is not a theory, but rather seeks to support the practice of identifying pathways for system change.

Ioan Fazey, Niko Schäpke (…) Tobias Luthe (…) et al.

Transforming Knowledge Systems for Life on Earth: Visions of Future Systems and how to get there

Formalised knowledge systems are important but arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there.

disP 56/3, September 2020

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2020 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Figure 1 – Case study parking garage cross section with a traditionally designed garage (red box in the left image) and a flexibly designed garage (red box in the right image) © Chair for Infrastructure Management, ETH Zurich.

Arnór B. Elvarsson, Claudio Martani, Bryan T. Adey

Considering Automated Vehicle Deployment Uncertainty in the Design of Optimal Parking Garages Using Real Options

Parking garages are often currently designed assuming that parking demand will be stable over their lifetime. The looming mobility shift towards automated vehicles (AVs), however, makes parking demand highly uncertain, with some scenarios leading to its complete disappearance at some time in the near future. The design of optimal parking garages needs to take this uncertainty into consideration and may lead to parking garages that can easily be transformed for other uses when beneficial.

Weiterbildung | Studiengänge

Collage by Goda Budvytyte

Master of Advanced Studies ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design

Call for applications PROLONGED until 30 June 2021.

Urban and territorial design has acquired a new meaning and urgency. From drivers of progress to the source of planetary hazards, the impacts of cities and wider urbanisation processes are being recast in the public sphere. The critical examination of anthropocentric world views, the proposed politics of a Green New Deal, growing social movements, and climate activism are reflected directly in urban and territorial space, highlighting power asymmetries and fuelling the exploration of alternatives. The imminent future of the urban engages social and environmental imaginaries, which now extend beyond-the-city and beyond-the-human.

Luzern © Timon Furrer

Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Raumplanung 2021/23

Bewerbungsfrist: 1. Januar – 30. April 2021. Continua

Strada vuota in Singapore (CC0 1.0 by VizAforMemories via Unsplash)

CAS/DAS Verkehrsingenieurwesen ab Herbst 2021

Anmeldung: ab Januar 2021 – 31. Juli 2021. Continua

Marseille © 2019 ETH Zürich, Professur Günther Vogt

Master of Science ETH in Landschaftsarchitektur

Bewerbungsfrist: 1. Nov. – 15. Dez. 2021 & 1. – 30. April 2022 Continua

Seminario in Bhuji, India, 2019 © MAS ETH in Housing

Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Housing

Bewerbungsfrist VERLÄNGERT: 1. Januar bis 30. Juni 2021, Kursstart: September 2021.

Das MAS setzt sich zum Ziel, durch multidisziplinäre Ausbildung und Forschung auf hohem Niveau dazu beizutragen, Lösungen für die Herausforderungen des Wohnungsbaus in der Schweiz, in Europa sowie in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen weltweit zu finden.

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Architektur für einen Planeten in der Krise | Architecture for a Broken Planet

26.3.–29.8.2021 | ZAZ Zentrum Architektur Zürich.

«Critical Care» ist eine Ausstellung des Architekturzentrum Wien und wurde dort erstmals 2019 gezeigt. Continua

ZÜRICH 1980. Bewegter Alltag: Fotografien von Gertrud Vogler / Poetische Provokationen: Die Sprache der Bewegung

3. September 2020 – 17. Januar 2021 | Zentrum Architektur Zürich ZAZ, Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich.

Vor 40 Jahren wurde Zürich von einer urbanen Revolte erschüttert. Es war eine Rebellion gegen einen normierten und kontrollierten Alltag, gegen ein biederes, engstirniges und repressives soziales Klima, ein erbitterter und lustvoller Kampf für ein anderes urbanes Leben. Continua

51N4E, A site meeting in Tirana, Albania, 2008. © 51N4E

The Things Around Us

16 September 2020 – 14 February 2021 | Exhibition | Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Elements of the Design in Dialogue Lab of ETH’s NEWROPE Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation are exhibited at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal as part of ‘The Things Around Us’.

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Isabelle Fehlmann, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Landschaftsarchitektur
Melanie Fessel, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Claudia Gebert, Koordinationsstelle NSL, Chefredaktion
Joe Molloy, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT)
Maarten Van Strien, Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung (IRL)
Jan Westerheide, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau