Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development
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Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development
@IRL_ETH

@Blen_Back shared cool insights on how to explore uncertainty in land-use scenarios, and showed how effects of drivers might change over time



A group of ETH researchers has now systematically investigated factors influencing the population’s acceptance of #densification, focusing on the canton of Zurich and six world cities of global importance. One key factor: affordable #housing. ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…



I think we should collectively delegitimize these university rankings. They can have homogenizing effects and they can reproduce asymmetrical power relations as they are consulted by policy-makers and university administrators in, for example, funding decisions. /Thread



.@RaffaeleBazurli and I wrote about urban asylum policies in @UrbanAffairsRev, and how they (aim to) decenter the national state from asylum and citizenship governance Raf wrote a summarizing thread (almost as long as the article) 👇




upZ (urbanpublics.org) is delighted to host an intervention by brilliant @michelelancione on global housing struggels @Zentralwäscherei on May 11. Together w/ Philipp Klaus @INURAorg, Antonia Steger @Urban_Equipe / @MietenMarta and @urbanblabla as discussants.

Genf hat Tausenden Sans-Papiers zu einer B-Bewilligung verholfen. In Zürich sind solche Versuche gescheitert. Aber die Linke drängt weiter. Und die FDP bewegt sich. (Abo) tagesanzeiger.ch/wieso-die-zuer…



