Housing is one of the most significant challenges for humanitarian actors and displaced persons in cities. This new SNF project on Urban Humanitarian Housing hopes to contribute to improving humanitarian housing responses as well as the well-being and agency of urban displaced persons worldwide. This is a collaboration Continua

Verdichtung ist heute ein Grundsatz der Stadtentwicklung. Trotzdem stösst sie immer wieder auf lokalen Widerstand. ETH-​Raumwissenschaftler:innen haben nun in sechs Weltstädten und im Kanton Zürich systematisch untersucht, wie sich die Akzeptanz von Verdichtung in der Bevölkerung erklären lässt. Eine Schlüsselrolle spielt der preisgünstige Wohnungsraum. Artikel in den ETH Continua

Digital platforms are increasingly present in everyday urban life. This has meant an increasing infrastructuralisation of digital platforms, creating opportunities, but also challenges for cities and governments. During COVID-19, delivery platforms and delivery workers became a staple of urban landscapes, but what has this meant for urban governance?

The interrelationship between structure and agency has long been in the centre of the planning debate: the structuralist perspective focused on a regulatory structure as an arena for the manoeuvre of rational actors, while network-oriented post-structuralism exceeds such a rigid duality. However, as both approaches fail to fully Continua

Citizen participation in planning and politics was a central promise of the first democratic government in South Africa. However, despite efforts for engaging civil society in local governance, planning remains state-driven and problems of implementation prevail. We explore participatory practices in South Africa from the perspective of the Continua