The digital collection New Agendas under Planetary Urbanisation is joint project by the Architecture of Territory and Urban Sociology, ETH Zurich D-ARCH, to communicate on-going and related research anchored within the FCL Global programme.

New Agendas under Planetary Urbanisation is an initiative for critical urban research and action stimulated by the perspective of planetary urbanisation. Inextricably bound to the ecologies of life on Earth, urbanisation processes are fuelling the current, fundamental social and environmental change, encompassing all spatial scales, across both built and un-built environments. This initiative approaches the urban and urbanisation through a decentered perspective on transformation across the entire territory, transcending the rural-urban and north-south divides.

Addressing scholars, practitioners and activists, the digital collection offers conceptual, theoretical, methodological and cartographic sources and tools in response to the political, social and environmental urgencies of planetary urbanisation. Hosted by the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture, the site aims to inform and support transdisciplinary research and pedagogies in urban studies, humanities and design, and to enable the communication and documentation of projects and actions, bringing together long-standing collaborations, work-in-progress, and emerging positions. Recorded seminars, texts, exhibitions and other resources presented here are based on an open source ethos.

New Agendas under Planetary Urbanisation has been initiated by ETH Zurich professorships of Urban Sociology and Architecture of Territory led by Christian Schmid and Milica Topalović. It is anchored within and funded by the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture the Future Cities Laboratory, and is affiliated to the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies and the LUS Doctoral Programme. ETH Studio Basel’s foundational research on territory is made available as an archive now formally hosted in this collection.

Christian Schmid, Urban Sociology, ETH Zurich D-ARCH and FCL Singapore

Milica Topalović, Architecture of Territory, ETH Zurich D-ARCH and FCL Singapore

Affiliated collaborators:
Martín, Arboleda, School of Sociology, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Bathla, Nitin, Urban Sociology, ETH Zurich D-ARCH and FCL Singapore
Belkhodja, Ahmed, fala, HEAD – Genève and ENSA Paris-Est
Brenner, Neil, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago
Castriota, Rodrigo
Couling, Nancy, Bergen School of Architecture, Architecture of Territory, ETH Zurich D-ARCH and FCL Singapore
Djurdjevic, Muriz, Architecture of Territory, ETH Zurich D-ARCH
Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne, PLUS, ETH Zurich D-BAUG and FCL Singapore
Hanakata, Naomi, NUS DOA
Hein, Carola, TU Delft, LDE PortCityFutures Centre
Hertzog, Alice, Urban Sociology, ETH Zurich D-ARCH
Hortig, Hans, Architecture of Territory, ETH Zurich D-ARCH
Howe, Lindsay, Urban Sociology, ETH Zurich D-ARCH
INURA
Jäggi, Marcel, pool Architekten
Katsikis, Nikos, TU Delft
Kostka, Karoline, Architecture of Territory, ETH Zurich D-ARCH
Kueffer, Christoph, ETH Zurich D-USYS, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil, and Franklin University, Lugano
Leclair, Benjamin, director workroom B
Markaki, Metaxia, Architecture of Territory, ETH Zurich D-ARCH
Moser, Lino, architect, Ernst Niklaus Fausch Partner AG
Rekacewicz, Phillipe, visionscarto
Riva, Matteo, PLUS, ETH Zurich D-BAUG
Simone, Abdou Maliq, University of Sheffield
Six, Johan, SAE, ETH Zurich D-USYS
Streule, Monika, Urban Studies LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre
Vega, Kevin, SAE, ETH Zurich D-USYS
Viganò, Paola, EPFL, LAB-U
Wong, Tammy Kit Ping