Virtuelle Landschaften zur partizipativen Planung – Optimierung von 3D Landschaftsvisualisierungen zur Informationsvermittlung

Publikationsreihe des Instituts für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung (IRL), ETHZ, IRL-Bericht 5. Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag AG.  PDF In dem Buch werden Darstellungsprinzipien für 3D Landschafts-visualisierungen zum Einsatz in partizipativen Planungsprozessen konkretisiert. Ausgehend vom Informationsbedarf und den technischen Möglichkeiten der Visualisierung sowie der Umsetzung von Prinzipien der Kommunikationswissenschaften werden konkrete More

Suburban Open-Space Development – Decision-support systems for sustainability in spatial planning

Public parks, agricultural and forest areas, traffic zones, sport and leisure facilities, nature reserves, waters: our agglomerations consist of a multitude of unbuilt spaces. In planning however they are often treated as «remaining territories» or their handling is sectorally regulated, even though they fulfill manifold and important functions. More

Procedural Modelling of Sustainable Urban Patterns – a Case Study of MASDAR

Innovative procedural modelling methods for the automatic creation of large-scale 3D city models provide unprecedented opportunities to understand and encode urban patterns. They allow easy production of multiple design alternatives based on design rules leading the simulation procedure. While grammars shaping the urban environment have already been defined, More

SUMSOR – Towards a More Sustainable Management of Soil Resources by Redistributing Economic and Ecological Added and Reduced Values

Motivation – Preservation of the resource soil The pace and scale of the demand for land is increasing worldwide, as population becomes urban, lifestyles change, and industrial agricultural practices are intensifying. Although, there is a large amount of policy instruments available for spatial planners, none of these instruments More

NFP 68 OPSOL – A Model-based Decision Support System for Integration of Soil Ecosystem Services in Policy and Planning

Sustainable land use must coordinate the numerous demands on the soil by considering the functions of the soil. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey and her team developed a 3D visualisation platform so the actors involved can develop strategies for a sustainable land use together. The use of the platform is accompanied More

Sustainable Planning with PALM

The current practice of assigning building zones has proven to be unsustainable. In addition to urban sprawl in the landscape, building zone reserves are also oversized and in unsuitable locations or, in short, the discrepancy between supply and demand is being criticised. Land is a scarce resource and More

Future Cities Lab Global

Sustainable cities and settlement systems through science, by design, in place, over time Future Cities Lab Global (FCL Global) addresses the globally significant challenges of rapid regional transformation, and aims to create a better understanding of the relationships between cities, rural communities and their surrounding regions, so as to More

Cover of the journal disP, Volume 60, Issue 4, December 2024

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Prof. em. Dr. Bernd Scholl | Spatial Development

Bernd Scholl was Full Professor for Spatial Development at the Institute of Spatial and Landscape Development from 2006 to 2018. From 1997 to 2006, he was Head of the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning (ISL) (today: Institut für Regionalwissenschaft IfR) at the University of Karlsruhe and Full Professor of the Chair of the same name. He has been co-owner of a planning office for urban and regional planning in Zurich since 1987.