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Research in the NSL

Das NSL erforscht die Transformation von Städten, Landschaften, Infrastrukturen und Mobilitätssystemen in einem inter- und transdisziplinären Rahmen. Verschiedene Ansätze werden verknüpft, um nachhaltige, resiliente und sozial gerechte Lösungen zu entwickeln. Im Fokus stehen Infrastruktur- und Verkehrsmanagement, urbane und territoriale Entwicklung, Landschaftsplanung sowie die gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen des Bauens und Wohnens.
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Urban environment as shown in the virtual reality experiment while measuring emotional responses using physiological measurements (electrodermal activity). © PLUS, ETH Zürich

Difference-Oriented Urban Planning (DiffUrb)

Published on: 8. December 2022
Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems
Cities are characterized by a pluralism of people and uses. This fact is becoming increasingly relevant for the practice of urban planning. Any handling of…
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View of session during the 1994 Anyplace conference in Montréal Photo credit: Michel Boulet @ Anyone Corporation Fund, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Unlocking the «Contact Zone». Towards a New Historiography of Architecture

Published on: 4. December 2022
Chair: History and Theory of Urban Design | Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
This research project seeks to develop a new method of writing the history of post-WWII architecture, reflecting the complexities of globalisation and its influence on…
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The abandoned Naharayim power plant in 2017 © Ben Gitai, ETH Zürich.

Mapping Power: Landscape Transformation in the Jordan Valley

Published on: 1. September 2022
Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture
An interaction of three variables can account for landscape transformation processes at Naharayim/el Baqura over the last century and a half: territory, cartography, and terrain.…
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HERA PuSH – Public Space in European Social Housing

Published on: 21. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
Social housing estates are often problematised as places of segregation and disintegration in European cities, yet they are also potentially a prime locus of integration…
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Former railway station of Oberstadt, Baden. Picture: AZ / san.

Oberstadt4D

Published on: 21. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
With the spatial development concept REK, the city of Baden committed itself to an active urban development in 2019. With the consensual approval of the…
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Residents of the cooperative "Ciudadelas de la Paz". Photo: ECOMUN, La Guajira, Colombia, 2020.

Promoting peace and reconciliation through cooperative housing in post-conflict Colombia

Published on: 14. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
The project «Peacebuilding through housing cooperatives in Colombia» aims to contribute to the peace process in Colombia and supports the foundation process of the first…
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Common Water – The Alps is about a new understanding of the Alps as a landscape island within a circle of cities in the middle of Europe that is condensing into a ribbon city. The Alps do not separate, they interact with the urban landscapes all around.

Common Water – the Alps

Published on: 8. September 2021
Chair: Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt | Landscape Architecture
The Alps are not a static assemblage but a dynamic and sensitive living space. Geological and geomorphological processes formed their characteristic topography over millions of…
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Late for work © icon4yu / Noun Project

Traffic Control Beyond Modes

Published on: 8. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas | Traffic Engineering and Control
Future developments of mobility pass through a phase of complementarity and blending of modes. From this point of view, the potential benefits (i.e. societal, monetary)…
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Traffic in Lucerne (© BY-​NC 4.0 / M. Malinowski / GGWash)

Evaluation of Self-Control

Published on: 8. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas | Traffic Engineering and Control
In order to meet the increasing demand for mobility and, above all, to reduce the resulting problems such as congestion, time loss, negative impacts on…
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Time to green (Illustration: CreativeCons / flaticon.com remixed by o-​media)

Time-to-Green

Published on: 8. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas | Traffic Engineering and Control
In light of the newer developments in transportation systems, the Dienstabteilung Verkehr (DAV), the Traffic Service Department of the City of Zurich is interested in…
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SODA – Self-Organized, Distributed, and Adaptive Traffic Control

Published on: 8. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas | Traffic Engineering and Control
The main objective of this research proposal is to develop a smart traffic-management system that works in an automatic, distributed, self-organized way, to control (i)…
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Forward looking infrared camera (© Teledyne FLIR LLC)

OptFlow – Travel-time estimation with FLIR cameras sensors

Published on: 8. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas | Traffic Engineering and Control
Novel sensor technology represents a significant potential for traffic management in cities. Thermal cameras in particular have recently gained considerable importance and are now also…
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Graphical representation (symbolic image) of wireless communication between vehicles and their environment using digital means, also called Car2x communication. (© BY-SA 4.0 / H.J. Brehm / Wikimedia Commons)

RECCE – Real-time highway traffic estimation and control

Published on: 8. September 2021
Chair: Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas | Traffic Engineering and Control
This project focuses on developing integrated control solutions (i.e. co-ordinated ramp metering: RM and variable speed limits: VSL) to manage congestion on motorway networks. An…
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«Densifying Switzerland»: Acceptance and public support for densification projects in Swiss cities

Published on: 8. September 2021
Chair: Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann | Spatial Development and Urban Policy
The SNF-funded research project «Densifying Switzerland» examines factors that affect the acceptance and local democratic support for densification projects in all 162 Swiss cities. Densification…
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Future-proof urban development. Evaluating the impact of flexible assets in coping with the uncertain future conditions

Published on: 6. September 2021
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The project was funded by the Network City and Landscape (NSL) to investigate the impact of flexible designs in coping with the uncertain future offices…
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Multi-Stakeholder Decision support framework to identify and evaluate resilience improvement interventions for interdependent infrastructure systems

Published on: 6. September 2021
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Infrastructure systems are susceptible to hazard events, which disrupts their functionality leading to direct and indirect consequences for their stakeholders as well as the public.…
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Maintaining train schedule STABILITY and managing time table reserves via digitalized railway intervention planning

Published on: 6. September 2021
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The future of rail transport will be one where trains carrying passengers and goods flow seamlessly from their origins to their destinations. Potential disruptions due…
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Collective Grounds: Housing Estates and the European City, 1865–1930

Published on: 9. August 2021
Chair: History and Theory of Urban Design | Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
The current postdoctoral research project focuses on the relation between cities and urban housing estates, understood as ensembles of two or more, medium-density to high-density,…
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Architectural Expertise in a World-in-Common

Published on: 9. August 2021
Chair: History and Theory of Urban Design | Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Architectural and urban design are activities embedded in a socio-spatial and political context. Harvard Professor of Urban Planning Susan Fainstein, therefore, challenges theories of planning—and,…
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The Travelling Architect’s Eye: Photography and Automobile Vision

Published on: 9. August 2021
Chair: History and Theory of Urban Design | Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
This research project aims to investigate the status of the photographs that architects take during their travels by car. It is based on the hypothesis…
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Building the Commons. An Alternative Architectural History of the European City

Published on: 9. August 2021
Chair: History and Theory of Urban Design | Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Alternative principles of pooling common resources are attracting increased attention in political circles and society at large. Labelled as “commons”, some of these issues have,…
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An Architecture World: The Tacit in Recent Architectural Pedagogy at ETH Zurich

Published on: 9. August 2021
Chair: History and Theory of Urban Design | Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
The tacit dimension of architectural pedagogy—which students deploy when designing, but have trouble explaining—remains understudied, beset by methodological difficulties. Existing accounts emphasize isolated studio exercises…
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Exploring Urban-Scale Models: The Projets Urbains and the Performance of the Maquette, 1960s till Today

Published on: 7. August 2021
Chair: History and Theory of Urban Design | Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Little research exists on urban-scale models. In existing scholarship, they are often lumped together with architectural models. Although urban-scale models certainly possess characteristics that are…
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Worker’s room in Moiry, 1955 © Archives d’architure, Genève

Secondary Infrastructure Exposed: the Temporary Settlements of La Grande Dixence (1950-1965)

Published on: 24. April 2021
Chair: Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt | Landscape Architecture
As a response to Susan Leigh Star’s call to study “boring things” and mundane aspects of infrastructure, this research project offers a reflection on the notion…
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Plan of the reservoir’s water levels, ca. 1924-1937. Author unknown. Copyright: Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln, KAE Plan 3.0225.0015.

The Project of Hydroelectric Landscapes: Material and Cultural Constructions of Lake Sihl (1897-1937)

Published on: 24. April 2021
Chair: Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt | Landscape Architecture
In the history of rivers in Switzerland, the emergence of hydroelectricity from 1870 to 1970 made the reservoir a new and major landscape figure. However,…
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Comparing Urbanization in Johannesburg and Maputo

Published on: 23. April 2021
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid | Sociology
The two cities of Johannesburg and Maputo are geographically close to one another in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although they have distinct histories and features, they also…
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Urbanization in a Comparative Perspective

Published on: 23. April 2021
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid | Sociology
The last two decades have seen a sharp increase in the speed, scale, and scope of urbanization that has fundamentally changed the character of the…
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Planetary Urbanization

Published on: 23. April 2021
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid | Sociology
More than four decades ago, Henri Lefebvre proposed the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, demanding a shift in analysis from urban form…
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Henri Lefebvre

Published on: 23. April 2021
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid | Sociology
Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space is one of the most important contemporary contributions to the analysis of urbanization and socio-spatial processes. It…
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ValPar.CH

Published on: 18. April 2021
Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems
Values of the ecological infrastructure in Swiss parks Commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the interdisciplinary research team in charge of…
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GLOBESCAPE

Published on: 18. April 2021
Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems
Enabling transformation: Linking design and land system science to foster place-making in peri-urban landscapes under increasing globalization. Unprecedented urbanization is threatening landscape diversity, bringing along…
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EMPHASES

Published on: 18. April 2021
Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems
Nature and biodiversity are not only essential for the existence of human societies, but are also threatened by the expansion of cities and transport infrastructure.…
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Future-proofing strategies FOr RESilient transport networks against Extreme Events (FORESEE)

Published on: 16. April 2021
Chair:
System-wide transportation risks are not well understood across modes, regions, and critical interdependent sectors, creating uncertainty about risks resulting from a major system disruption. There…
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Seventeenth century Ottoman velvet brocade featuring fan-like carnations with a fill of tulips, roses, and hyacinths. Photographs: Lara Mehling, Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Turkey Red: Ottoman Decorative Arts at the Root of the ‘Parterre de Fleurs’

Published on: 5. March 2021
Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture
This dissertation project sets out to trace the transregional and transmaterial journey of the quatre fleurs, four of the most popular flowers featured in Ottoman…
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Design for the Rail Corridor: Design and model © Pranoto and Ping, Scan and visualization © Philipp RW Urech, ETH Zurich

Shaping Physical Landscape

Published on: 5. March 2021
Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture
Point cloud modeling as a site-specific design method in landscape architecture applied to a case study in Singapore. The design of large-scale urban landscapes often…
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© Courtesy: Photothèque, École Nationale d’Architecture de Rabat, Marokko

Urban Design as Cross-Cultural Practice. The Work of Michel Ecochard

Published on: 12. January 2021
Chair: History and Theory of Urban Design | Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
The biography of Michel Ecochard (1905–1985) reads like a fascinating saga of migrations between geographies, cultures, and disciplines. Ecochard was not only trained in the…
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