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Join us today for an inspiring event about radical housing with michele lancione and more 18.30 at Zentralwäscherei, Zürich
New article by Raffaele Bazurli and David Kaufmann timely addressing how urban asylum policies aim to de-center the national state from asylum and citizenship governance. For an in depth overview, check Raffaele Bazurli thread! Now available in @UrbanAffairsRev
It is again university ranking season, with all the horrific and posturing marketing posts it brings along But for once, there is at least a (critical) discussion of these rankings from the communication office of my school ETH Zurich , which I appreciate: ethz.ch/staffnet/en/ne…
ETH Zurich And here is a past rant from me about these rankings, which I still find valid: We should collectively delegitimize these university rankings because they can have homogenizing effects and they reproduce asymmetrical power relations x.com/kaufmada/statu…
Last week, SPUR’s Humanitarian Planning Hub presented the first results of the collaboration with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the #Geneva Technical Hub (SDC): A risk mitigation strategy GIS tool and a catalog of flood risk mitigation measures for humanitarian settlements. Soon more to follow!
What challenges do digital platforms bring to urban governance? In this brief article for the Network City and Landscape ETH Zurich our colleague @Nicopalacios addresses some of this questions, focusing on the quick evolution of delivery platforms in Europe. nsl.ethz.ch/platforms-and-…
Thanks to ETH Zurich for sharing the main results of the recently published article "Planning instruments enhance the acceptance of urban densification" at PNASNews by our colleagues @WickiMichael, @hofer_kat and David Kaufmann
plus.ethz.ch/plus-news/2022… Ana Stritih