Understanding the Challenges of the Livable Future City. Guest Lecture Prof Dr Gerhard Schmitt, Future City Laboratory ETH Zürich. 17.5.2016 Siemens Auditorium, HIT, ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich.

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Urban Sketching ist die Gegenbewegung zum massenhaften Bilderpflücken. Ein Trend, der allerdings Mut braucht bekommt zunehmends Zulauf.

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If we ban the cars and lorries from where we live, we expand not only our livability, but our livingrooms towards social interaction. Readings | More cycling, better public transport and car bans – cities from Delhi to Zurich are using a range of initiatives to lower traffic pollution and improve health. Black and greasy […]

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The biggest advantage of the sketch is, that it is able to show the future. Urban Sketchers want to take a closer look at the things to understand how they are and what these things mean to us.

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The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam is the show of „What’s Next?“ Influence from the pioneers, the inventors and the early adopters is important that new ideas can spread.

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Listen to the session at re:publica 2016: „They dream of the smart city“ … „but they are learning very quickly that all these fantasy worlds just aren’t going to happen.“ Richard Sennett

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The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development is the guideline for all of us.

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Have an eye on the creative pond, where good ideas grow and creativity is a lifestyle that leads to innovation. We need new solutions for the new generations on a sustainable background.

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„Dream – focus – plan – do and dream on – focus again – plan on and do it all again!“ Learn to apply „design thinking“ and solve problems by rethinking again and again.

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How should we design and govern our cities? Although we are not prophets, we can investigate and imagine tomorrow’s city, research it by design. IABR–2016–THE NEXT ECONOMY focuses on the challenges.

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Die Statistik zeigt, dass zwischen 2004 und 2014 nur vier der 173 untersuchten Städte und städtischen Gemeinden einen Bevölkerungsschwund hatten, den grössten verzeichnet Arosa mit minus 1,7 %.

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With this award, the European Commission’s aim was to celebrate the city that is building the best “innovation ecosystem”- connecting citizens, public organisations, academia, and business.

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Western European cities dominate the top of our 2016 Quality of Living Rankings, with Vienna remaining in the No.1 spot. Luxembourg earns the top spot for personal safety.

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Autodesk and it’s software sketchbook is a huge help in sketching and afterwards designig our tomorrows world. Take a look at the students opportunity.

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Readings | The book presents a multifaceted and diverse platform of ideas about European public space and its social, cultural, economic,and historical significance. Approached from a variety of different disciplines—with essays by sociologists and novelists; architects and anthropologists—this discussion is focused on seven lessons that have been learned through the prolific construction of public spaces across […]

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Antwerpen made an investment in art and architecture, but took care of their roots. Now they enjoy a good mixture of livability.

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