CS 1996 "City of Zurich – Centre Zürich North: Sustainable urban development"

How to develop a town quarter with urban living quality out of an industrial area?
What are the necessary investments?
What are the needs for a sustainable urban development?

We tried to answer these questions by reflecting the Center Zurich North (ZNN), one of Switzerland's largest re-use projects of industrial areas. The main focus was on the treatment of contaminated sites, the water management, possible alternatives of green areas, and the planning of local traffic.

Characteristics

Case: 0.63 km² area, 850,000 m² gross floor space, 5,000 inhabitants, 12,000 working places
Co-operation: City of Zurich, ABB Switzerland
Duration: Preparation from January 1995 to March 1996, Student's work from April to July 1996, Book Production from August 1996 to January 1997

People

Headship: Prof. Dr Roland W. Scholz (ETH)
Administration: Dr Harald A. Mieg (ETH), Dr Jürg Stünzi (ETH), Sandro Bösch (ETH), Katharina Zwicker (ETH)
Tutors: Markus Beerli (ETH), Adran Bewret (ETH), Lucio Carlucci (ETH), Angelus Eisinger (ETH), Dr Peter Frischknecht (ETH), Dr Johannes Heeb (External), Dr Armin Heitzer (ETH), Andreas Hofer (External), Thomas Hulliger (ETH), Michael Koucky (External), Matthias Lebküchner (External), Ellen Meyrat-Schlee (External), Harald A. Mieg (ETH), Stefan Mischke (External), Marc A. Schärli (ETH), Christian Schmid (ETH), Corinne Schmidlin (External), Jörg Schmill (External), Dr Johann W. Schregenberger (External), Ruedi Schwarzenbach (ETH), Dr Martin Simon (External), Werner Simon (ETH), Dr Jürg Stäuble (External), Michael Stauffacher (External), Regula S. Steiner (ETH), Dr Jürg Stünzi (ETH), Dr Olaf Tietje (ETH), Olaf Weber (ETH)
Students: 126 ETH Students

Products

Case Study Book

Scholz, R. W., Bösch, S., Mieg, H. A. & Stünzi, J. (Eds.) (1997). Zentrum Zürich Nord – Stadt im Aufbruch: Bausteine für eine nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung. ETH-UNS Fallstudie 1996. vdf Verlag, Zürich. ISBN 3 7281 2319 6. DownloadDownload (PDF, 31.7 MB)

Research Papers

Crott, H. W., Grotzer, T., Hansmann, R., Mieg, H. A., & Scholz, R.W . (1999). Prozessanalyse von Gruppenentscheidungen zu Aspekten ökologischer Stadtplanung. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 30(1), 77–91
Güldenzoph, W., Baracchi, C., Fagetti, R., & Scholz, R. W. (2000). Chancen und Risiken des Industriebranchenrecycling: Dilemmata nachhaltiger Entwicklung (Opportunities and risks in the recycling of industrial "brownfields": Dilemmas of sustainable development). DISP (Documents and Information on Local, Regional, and Country Planning in Switzerland), 143(4/2001), 10–17
Hansmann, R. Mieg, H. A., Scholz, R. W. & Crott, H. W. (2003). Shifting Students` to Experts` complex systems knowledge: Effects of bootstrapping, group discussion, and case study participation. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 4(2), 151–168
Mieg, H. A. (2000). University-based projects for sustainable development: designing expert roles and collective reasoning. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 1 (1), 67–82
Scholz, R. W. (1996). Integrale Bewertung neuer Nutzungen. Bulletin, Magazin der ETH Zürich, 262, 22–25
Scholz, R. W., Mieg, H. A., & Weber, O. (1996). Die UNS-Fallstudie als neues Paradigma anwendungsorientierter Lehre und Forschung. [The UNS Case Study as a new paradigm for practice-oriented higher education and research]. Informationen zur Umweltpsychologie, 2 (2), 13–17
Scholz, R. W., Mieg, H. A., Weber, O., & Stauffacher, M. (1998). Sozio-psychologische Determinanten nachhaltigen Handelns. DISP, 133, 14-21
Scholz, R. W., Stünzi, J., Mieg, H. A., & Bösch, S. (1998). Methods for interface management: interdisciplinary ETH-UNS case studies for sustainability. Initiative Psychologie im Umweltschutz e. V., Rundbrief, 8, 31–38