Densification is the central paradigm of the current revisions of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act. Densification can be motivated by concerns as to ecology or affordability. The newly established research group «Spatial Development and Urban Policy» (SPUR) at ETH Zürich will examine effects of densification policies in Switzerland. More
On the recommendation of ETH President Joël Mesot, the ETH Board appointed several new ETH professors during its meeting on 10 and 11 July 2019. Amongst them Dr. David Kaufmann (*1985), currently a post-doctoral student at the University of Bern, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Spatial Development More
12. November 2019 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Auditorium Maximum (HG F 30). Eine der grössten Herausforderungen des ländlichen Raumes sind bauliche Entwicklungen: Infrastrukturprojekte, Umnutzungen von landwirtschaftlichen Gebäuden oder Schutz vor Naturgefahren gelten oft als eine Voraussetzung für seine regionalökonomische Entwicklung und stellen zugleich Eingriffe in Natur und Landschaft More
13. November 2019 | 5. Tag der Geomatik | Kongresshaus Aarau. Die ETH Zürich und die FHNW laden auch in diesem Jahr wieder zum Tag der Geomatik. An dieser Veranstaltung mit interaktiver Ausstellung und Lernmodulen für Schulklassen, geben Expertinnen und Experten spannende Einblicke in ein vielseitiges Fachgebiet.
The project Managing telecoupled landscapes for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation (2015-2020), supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), assesses the impacts and opportunities that arise when distant but coupled, or telecoupled, systems interact with More
Die Siedlungsentwicklung im gewachsenen Bestand definiert einen Wendepunkt in der Raumentwicklung. Sie verändert Wesen der Planung und Anforderungen an sie. Die Spatial Transformation Labortories (STL) bieten eine neue Plattform zur Erforschung integrativer Ansätze für die kommenden Herausforderungen der Planung und Entwicklung unserer Lebensräume.
The content of the film is only available in German and French. After the Second World War, people looked for comfort instead of tradition. To make room for new buildings, some towns even wanted to demolish their historic town centres – including Bern. Link to the archives of More
In 1963, Shell bought land in Cressier (NE) and, in 1964, began to build a large refinery there that was put into operation in 1966. A Category 3 national road had already been planned in the Cressier area within the scope of the national-road project 1954-1959. The prospect More
In the 1960s, Zurich’s rapid development began to penetrate as far as the community of Spreitenbach in the Limmat Valley. The former village slowly turned into a part of the Greater Zurich Area. In 1967, the foundation stone for the first Swiss shopping centre was laid here – More
The construction of national roads had to deal with a lot of topographic obstacles. Here, engineering feats came into their own. The new structure was to “perfectly fit into the grand landscape”. However, the impact of the national roads on the spatial structure were largely disregarded in the More
The housing shortage that prevailed in the 1960s, had new construction methods emerge. Innovative construction techniques based on prefabricated concrete elements were tested to allow building more flats in a shorter time. At the same time, there was a call for spatial planning meeting the demand for new More
Unseren Lebensraum kennen und gestalten Mit digitalen Modellen unseres Lebensraums, nachhaltiger Raumplanung und cleveren Verkehrskonzepten tragen Absolventinnen und Absolventen des Studiengangs Raumbezogene Ingenieurwissenschaften wesentlich zur Gestaltung der Zukunft bei. Google Maps, Geocaching, der Schweizer Weltatlas, der Bau von Tunnels und die Bewältigung der ganz grossen globalen Herausforderungen wie More
The construction of the national road network mainly took place between 1965 and 1975. The realization of the new traffic infrastructure was also considered an aesthetic challenge as road construction always involves interventions in the landscape. Link to the archives of RTS
The housing shortage of the 1960s was a topic that was observed with great attention and also was of great political concern. In 1965, the Federal Act on Measures to Promote Housing Construction was enacted. Among other things, the Delegate for Housing Construction advocated setting up Swiss national More
The village landscape as the very emblem of a safe personal biography slowly disappeared, towns grew endlessly and traffic ate up the landscape. “Plan wherever planning is still to be done” became the motto – because land-use planning had started later in Switzerland than in other European countries. More
In the 1960s, “gems of the Swiss landscape” were increasingly caught up in the maelstrom of potential builders and speculators. Measures were sought to curb rising land prices, and the population was made aware of the need to protect the landscape in order to preserve it for posterity. More
From 1954 till 1959, national roads were beginning to be planned. The first section – between Lausanne and Geneva – was opened in 1963 in view of the organization of the Expo ’64 in Lausanne. Switzerland wanted to present itself with a modern transport infrastructure at the Landesausstellung, More
At the end of the 19th century, a water correction took place in the Ticino, and the Magadino Plain was able to develop from marshland into an intensively used agricultural area. In 1974, the Bolle di Magadino Nature Reserve was created. In the following decades, the settled area More
The strong increase of settled areas after the end of the Second World War led to an overheating of the land market in the 1960s. In 1963, the Social Democratic Party SP and the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions submitted the so-called “land-rights initiative” (rejected in 1967). The More
At the beginning of the 1960s, the Halen housing estate was built in a forest clearing near Bern. Halen was built using a construction method focussing on structural density and designed as a communal housing estate intended for families. Link to the archives of Memobase
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, More
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 More
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 More
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.
Kindly supported by
The NSL Archives were founded in 2001 and have, since 2007, been part of the Archives of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta Archives) at ETH Zurich. The NSL Archives contain holdings on landscape architecture and spatial planning and urbanism in Switzerland.
By international comparison, the institutionalization of spatial planning and urbanism in Switzerland was rather late. For a long time, planning was characterized by the commitment of a few key players, including freelance planners and ETH Zurich itself. Large holdings in the field of spatial planning are available from the NSL Archives in the form of the estate of Hans Marti, the holdings of the Institute for Local, Regional, and Land Planning (ORL-Institut) and the Institute for Transport Planning and Technology (IVT) of ETH Zurich, Planpartner AG (Zurich), plus the study for the New Alpine Crossing (NEAT study, 1986–1988).
The landscape architecture inventory focuses on the landscape-architecture dynasty of Theodor Froebel, Otto Froebel, and Robert Froebel as well as Gustav Ammann, Peter Ammann, Eduard Neuenschwander, and Dieter Kienast, which spans around 150 years of Swiss horticultural history.
Joris Van Wezemael was Professor of Human Geography at the Université de Fribourg and CEO in charge of mandates of a real-estate investment foundation of the Pensimo Group. Since 2019, he has been Executive-in-Residence at IRL/STL of ETH Zurich.
Markus Nollert is the founder of urbanista.ch (bureau für raumentwicklung) and, since August 2018, head of the Spatial Transformation Laboratories (STL) group at IRL. In addition to his own research activities and lectures, he is co-ordinating the continuation of teaching activities at the Department of Spatial Development.
7 Sessions on selected Mondays, 10:00–12:00 ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 4. Cities and their planning have always been complex. The era of globalization exposed and brought to the fore this complexity. The reason behind this is the networking of hitherto rather iso lated places and systems across More
21/22 February | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg. 21 February | HIT E 51 08:00–08:45 Dr. Emanuele Strano, MindEarth, Switzerland: «Complex networks and spatial planning across time and scales» 09:15–10:00 Dr. Franziska Sielker, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, Great Britain and Northern Ireland: «Thinking and Acting in Areas of More
Viel zu reden gab die Tatsache, dass der Fachbereich Raumentwicklung am Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung der ETH Zürich nach der Emeritierung von Prof. Dr. Bernd Scholl nicht nahtlos von einer vollen Professur übernommen wurde, wie dies anfänglich der Plan war. PD Dr. Joris Van Wezemael und Dr. More
This doctoral thesis (ETH Zurich) contains an operational framework for assessing soil functions to facilitate the incorporation of soil function assessment (SFA) into decision-making, thereby highlighting the multiple functions of soils, which will enable the sustainable use of soil resources to be promoted during spatial planning.
Im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit am PLUS testen wir verschiedene Methoden zur Visualisierung von peri-urbanen Landschaften. Die Visualisierungen werden in einer Virtual Reality-Brille gezeigt, dabei wird mit einem Sensor am Finger die Hautleitfähigkeit gemessen. Für unsere Studie suchen wir Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer, die im Februar 2019 während ca. einer More
The objective of the project MtnPATHS is to explore adaptation pathways to reach sustainable futures in Swiss upper Valais (Visp & the Saastal) and French Alps (Lautaret). Visions for such futures and pathways to reach them will be defined and explored through participatory modelling integrating ecosystem services and climate adaptation services.
Unprecedented urbanization is threatening landscape diversity, bringing along new social and environmental problems thus calling for an active and creative landscape shaping process. The ERC-project GLOBESCAPE of Adrienne Grêt-Regamey will generate novel insights into how people add value and meaning to place by using physiological measurements to inform More
19. Dezember 2018, 13:00–20:00 | Doktorhaus, Wallisellen. Die Interdisziplinäre Projektarbeit (IPA) ist Kernbestandteil des ETH-Masterstudiengangs «Raumentwicklung und Infrastruktursysteme». In kleinen Planungsgruppen analysierten die Studierenden das Projektgebiet Wallisellen zunächst interdisziplinär und umfassend (Lagebeurteilung), um auf dieser Grundlage und in Form eines Konzepts mögliche Entwicklungsstrategien zu erarbeiten, die sie wiederum in einem räumlichen Vertiefungsgebiet auf Massnahmenebene detailliert More
21. November 2018 | ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, HIL H 40.4 und HIL H 40.9. Module mit kurzen, interaktiven Lerneinheiten geben Einblick in das vielseitige Fachgebiet der Geomatik. Eine frei zugängliche Ausstellung und Mitmach-Aktivitäten für Besucherinnen und Besucher aller Altersklassen ergänzen diesen spannenden Tag. Erfassen. Analysieren. Gestalten. Fachleute auf dem Gebiet der Geomatik verwenden unterschiedlichste Messsysteme, More