Department / Institute: Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
E-Bike City Results & Future
Jubiläumsfeier ETH RAUM & Vernissage
Tagung Landmanagement 2025: Klimaresilientes Wassermanagement im ländlichen Raum
Brownbag Lunch zum Thema Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung im Bereich Raumplanung
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board: Video and Manifesto now online!
Did you miss the NSL Forum and Cycling Research Board «Digital Twins for Europe’s Future Mobility», on September 4th? The video link is now available on the event website! In addition, for a quick read and an overview of the workshops, you can download the «Collective Manifesto for Continua
Housing Precarity in Six European and North American Cities: Threatened by the Loss of a Safe, Stable, and Affordable Home
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Increasing numbers of urban dwellers face housing precarity in cities worldwide. We conceptualize housing precarity as a multidimensional phenomenon, using five different dimensions: 1) housing affordability, 2) tenure security, 3) housing satisfaction, 4) neighborhood quality, and 5) community cohesion.
D-BAUG Urban Research Seminar
A Comprehensive Toolbox for Flood Risk Mitigation in Refugee Settlements
SPUR launches a comprehensive toolbox for flood risk mitigation in refugee settlements: www.humanitarian-risk.org. The toolbox includes a GIS tool to create flood risk maps and mitigation strategies, a compendium of flood risk mitigation measures and a participatory risk mapping methodology. We are thankful for the support of our Continua
Creating inequality in access to public transit? Densification, gentrification, and displacement
Densification is a key concept in contemporary urban planning. Yet, there are widespread concerns about densification causing displacement and gentrification. This paper examines densification around train stations – a prevalent form of transit-oriented development (TOD) in cities with established public transit systems – in the Canton of Zurich, Continua
What can cities do to promote acceptance of densification?
Swiss cities are more likely to accept densification when densification projects provide affordable housing and green spaces compared to densification that is implemented through reduced regulations for housing construction. By prioritizing a socio-ecological densification, extensive planning procedures and delays might be minimized. Read the article on ETH News.
Public Participation in Urban Planning
Public participation has become a widely used concept in the rhetoric and practice of planning, and an accepted approach in the formulation and implementation of spatial plans, urban policies, or development projects. Despite the widespread use of the concept in both theory and practice, there is however no Continua
Public Support for Participation in Local Development
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
4 – 6 September 2024 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E3 and HIT. Today’s design reflects the car-oriented consensus, which was formulated between the 1930’s and 1950’s and adopted around the world since then. The climate crisis challenges this orientation and asks for designs which emphasize the micro-mobility. Continua
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
4 – 6 September 2024 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E3 and HIT. VIDEO NOW ONLINE! Today’s design reflects a car-oriented consensus, which was formulated between the 1930’s and 1950’s and adopted around the world since then. The climate crisis challenges this orientation and asks for designs that Continua
Humanitarian Planning Hub
Der Humanitarian Planning Hub ist ein Hub für Wissenschaft und Praxis zur Co-Creation von Wissen und Lösungen für ökologisch und sozial nachhaltigen humanitären Wohnraum für vertriebene Menschen weltweit. Das erste Projekt des Humanitarian Planning Hubs ist eine Kooperation mit dem Geneva Technical Hubcall_made. Der Geneva Technical Hub ist Continua
Zwischen Wolkenkratzern und Zustimmung? Über Akzeptanz für urbane Verdichtung aus raumplanerischer Perspektive
Seit in Kraft treten des revidierten Raumplanungsgesetzes (RPG) auf 1. Mai 2014 sind alle 26 Schweizer Kantone und über 2130 Gemeinden dazu verpflichtet, ihre «Siedlungsentwicklung nach innen» zu lenken. Politik und Behörden müssen folglich ihre bestehenden Siedlungen verdichten, um Zersiedlung zu verhindern und den Flächenverbrauch pro Kopf zu Continua
Urban Research Seminar
29.11.2023, 12:00 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 35.1. Urban Research Seminar is a new initiative hosted by D-BAUG with the aim of building a bottom-up network that brings together early career researchers and their ongoing urban research projects across ETH Zürich.
More Than Human Cinema
Glossary of Spatial Planning Terms. An Overview of Instruments and Terminology in Switzerland
As a resource for understanding and translating Swiss spatial planning terms, this glossary aims to promote consistency and coherence for education and applied research in English about Swiss spatial planning at the ETH Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development and beyond.
Cooperative Planning under Pro-development Urban Agenda? A Collage of Densification Practices in Zurich, Switzerland
Like in many cities and regions worldwide, densification is the current urban development paradigm in Switzerland. Although considered one of the main policy mechanisms for sustainable land use, densification strategies are mainly employed by the private sector, causing adverse social effects.
La pandemia di COVID-19 e le sue implicazioni per i lavoratori essenziali urbani
La pandemia di COVID-19 ha avuto un impatto diverso a seconda delle risorse e opportunità che le persone avevano a disposizione per affrontarla. Si sono riprodotti svantaggi intersezionali, poiché il lavoro di cura e manutenzione è gravato in maniera sproporzionata sulle spalle delle donne e dei migranti. Data Continua
10 Jahre RPG 1
Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference and Exhibition
«Our goal is to find answers to the rapid global and Swiss-wide urbanisation.»
David Kaufmann is the new director of the Network City and Landscape (NSL) for the next two years. His priorities revolve around enhancing ETH Zürich’s standing in the field of national and international urban research and fostering synergies among ETH’s urban research groups in research, teaching, and engagement Continua
E-Bike City: Nur noch die Hälfte der Strassen für die Autos
Mieten: Teuer, teurer, verdrängt
New Project: Urban Humanitarian Housing
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
E-Bike City
E-Bike City è un progetto faro del Dipartimento di ingegneria civile, ambientale e geomatica (D-BAUG) dell’ETH di Zurigo. Nei prossimi tre anni sette cattedre studieranno congiuntamente le ripercussioni di un futuro urbano che conferisce la massima priorità a biciclette, micromobilità e trasporti pubblici. Principi Priorità a biciclette e Continua
Mehr Wohnraum, aber für wen?
6. Juni 2023, 17.30 | Karl der Grosse, Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zürich. Bauen ist das Gebot der Stunde, um dem aktuellen Wohnungsmangel zu begegnen und Verdichtung zu fördern. Neueste Studien über den Kanton Zürich zeigen jedoch, dass der aktuelle Wohnungsbau vulnerable Menschen verdrängt.
SPUR Research Colloquium
Neubauten verdrängen vulnerable Personen | New housing developments displace vulnerable persons
Erkenntnisse zum aktuellen Wohnungsnotstand: Bautätigkeit, Verdrängung und Akzeptanz
Neuste Auswertungen zeigen, dass neue Wohnungen hauptsächlich durch Ersatzneubauten geschaffen werden, zu direkten Verdrängungen von vulnerablen Personengruppen führen und bauliche Verdichtung eher akzeptiert wird, wenn es ökologische und soziale Begleitmassnahmen gibt.
Wachstum, Boden, Wohnen? Nachhaltige Verdichtung bedingt aktive kommunale Boden- und Wohnungspolitik
Wachstum, Boden, Wohnen? Schweizer Städte und Gemeinden sind seit 2014 gesetzlich dazu verpflichtet ihre «Siedlungsentwicklung nach innen» (Art. 1 RPG) zu lenken. Gleichzeitig werden ihre verfügbaren Bodenreserven knapp und die Wohnbevölkerung wächst stetig. Wie können kommunale Planer:innen aktiv und strategisch in den Wohnungsmarkt eingreifen, um so die Innenentwicklung Continua
Flood Risk Mitigation in Refugee Settlements
The intensity and frequency of natural hazards are on the rise. Refugee settlements face a particular risk from such disruptive events due to their precarious built environment and socio-economic situation. The SPUR and PLUS research groups at ETH Zürich, in collaboration with UNHCR and the Swiss Development Cooperation Continua
E-Bike City Kolloquium
8. Juni 2023, 9:00 – 18:30 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Audimax. An diesem Kolloquium werden die sieben Forschungsgruppen des D-BAUG Leuchtturmprojekts «E-Bike City» nicht nur ihre vorläufigen Ergebnisse präsentieren, sondern auch die Teilnehmenden aktiv in die Gestaltung der Forschungsfragen einbeziehen.
Book Talk about «Migrants and Machine Politics. How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness»
Actors, Arenas and Aims: A Conceptual Framework for Public Participation
This paper systematises knowledge of public participation by bringing together existing concepts and theories from planning literature to conceptualise the 3A3-framework of participation. The framework presents participation as an emergent phenomenon, shaped by the dimensions: actors, arenas and aims. Each of these dimensions consists of three interacting elements. Continua
Planning Instruments Enhance the Acceptance of Urban Densification
«Ja, aber nicht so!» – warum Verdichtung oft an der Akzeptanz scheitert
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
Will E-Bikes Bring Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Switzerland?
Between Activism and Academia: Research Justice in Unequal Cities
Platforms and Urbanism: Challenges for Urban Governance
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?
Accepting and Resisting Densification: The Importance of Project-related Factors and the Contextualizing Role of Neighbourhoods
From conformance to performance? A comparative analysis of the European Union territorial policy trends in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As several Western Balkans countries aspire to become members of the European Union (EU) in the (near) future, it is interesting to explore to what extent EU territorial trends are adopted in both the official national regulations and spatial planning practice. To do so, we: 1) screen EU Continua
Agency in a Contemporary World: Towards an Actor-centred Planning?
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
Gründung upZ (urban publics Zürich)
upZ (urban publics Zürich) fördert den Dialog zwischen Stadtforschung, Stadtgesellschaft und Stadtpolitik. Sie verfolgen zwei Ziele: Erstens wollen sie international ausgerichtete urbane Forschung und Praktiken in Zürich verankern und weiterentwickeln. Zweitens wollen sie Verbindungen zwischen städtischen Akteuren in Forschung, Politik, Aktivismus, Hochschulen und Zivilgesellschaft stärken, um den öffentlichen Continua
«Densifying Switzerland»: accettazione e sostegno pubblico a progetti di densificazione in città svizzere
Il progetto di ricerca “Densifying Switzerland”, finanziato dal FNS, esamina i fattori che influenzano l’accettazione e il sostegno democratico locale a progetti di densificazione nelle 162 città svizzere. La densificazione è il paradigma centrale delle attuali revisioni della Legge federale sulla pianificazione del territorio. C’è un vasto consenso Continua
NSL Forum: Pandemie? Mitten im Klimawandel. Was bedeutet das für die räumliche Entwicklung der Schweiz? Ein Dialog.
Video jetzt online! In einem Dialog für Praxis und Hochschulen nahm das Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft (NSL) der ETH Zürich am 11. November im Volkshaus Zürich eine Standortbestimmung für die räumliche Entwicklung in der Schweiz vor. Ausgangspunkt bildeten Erkenntnisse aus der Pandemiesituation, Hintergrund der Klimawandel. Die Tagung war Continua
Neues Video über das Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung
Neben dem Lehrstuhl für Planung von Landschaft und Urbanen Systemen (Prof. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey) sind in den letzten Jahren zwei neue Forschungsgruppen im Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung entstanden: Raumentwicklung und Stadtpolitik (Prof. David Kaufmann) und Spatial Transformation Laboratories (PD. Dr. Joris Van Wezemael). Ein neues Video stellt die Continua