Christine Seidler
Von Donuts, Berlinern und einer anderen Raumplanung
Book design: Wessinger und Peng, Stuttgart
Euro [D] 49.–, Euro [A] 50.40
German, ca. 380 pages, ca. 150 images,
20 × 27 cm, softcover
Euro [D] 49.–, Euro [A] 50.40
Pre-Order. Release date: Spring 2025
ISBN
978-3-03863-074-6
• More quality of life and diversity through better spatial planning.
• Strategies for settlement quality despite and with inward densification.
• Set of tools useful for answering the questions of those affected – cities, communities, clients, and residents.
• Strategies for settlement quality despite and with inward densification.
• Set of tools useful for answering the questions of those affected – cities, communities, clients, and residents.
Author, spatial planner and economist Christine Seidler shows that new spatial planning instruments and methods are required in order to solve these problems. In particular, our dependence on economic framework conditions in spatial planning processes has been neglected for far too long.
This publication thus aims to provide an understanding of the connections on the one hand and offer strategies and thus ways out of the existing patterns of action on the other. The compendium offers a range of options for action which, much like a toolbox, can be applied to the questions asked by those affected – cities and municipalities, clients and residents.
To provide a better understanding of the issue, the problem of vacancies is analyzed using two case studies – Zurich West and the municipality of Huttwil – placing them in the discourse of spatial planning culture and social policy.
The book combines theory and practice, focusing on practical use and application of the solution to the reader`s own situation. Its aim is to allow the strategies described to be applied freely, to develop own solutions in order to promote settlement quality and regional diversity and, last but not least, to protect the landscape.
About the Author
Christine Seidler is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in Chur. She teaches urban planning, sustainability, digitization and economics. At the Institute for Construction in Alpine Regions (IBAR), Seidler spearheads research into spatial planning, settlement development and economics. From 2017 to 2019, she was professor of urban development and mobility at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, acting as co-head of Dencity, an area of competence at the Institute for Urban Development and Infrastructure, as well as head of the module for urban design Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) for Site and Real Estate Development at the School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering. Christine Seidler was a municipal councilor for the city of Zurich from 2003 to 2021 and participates in various committees: 2018‒2021 as president of the audit committee, as consultant in the finance department (RPK / GPK), as long-standing member of the urban development commission and the commission for revision of the structure plan / building and zoning regulations (BZO). Political milestones in her work include the municipal settlement plan for Zurich, an initiative for affordable residential and commercial space, for which she was co-initiator and motion maker.
