Jean-David Gerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 667408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-David Gerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-David |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerber |
| SIGNATURE | GERBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9111-9071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 359 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Resisting commodification of urban green spaces in secondary African cities: The political role of new commons
Urban green spaces in Africa’s secondary cities are rapidly declining and becoming exclusive. Although studies show that this decline and resulting inequities are mainly due to increased privatisation of urban resources under State and market forces, the commons, which focuses on community management without commodification logics, has received less attention. This article aims to analyse how the new commons (a resource upon which users co-create…
A Faustian Bargain? Commoning under market conditions: The case of A cereal producer cooperative in a Swiss Alpine Region
Proposes cooperative commoning to study the development of cooperatives. • Challenges deterministic accounts of cooperative degeneration. • Demonstrates members’ and managers’ agency in sustaining cooperative values. • Reveals cooperative hybridization through strategic market and policy engagement. • Highlights tensions between market pressures and cooperative values. Cooperatives negotiate between a variety of logics and goals, including econom…
Housing Commons? A Scoping Review
The concept of commons has gained traction in housing research. However, when translated to the housing field, the notion of commons is interpreted in various ways and applied to a large range of situations. This increasing interest in the commons has thus resulted in a high degree of conceptual pluralism in the field. While this pluralism is inevitable, and, to a certain extent, necessary to grasp a complex social reality, it can also lead to co…
Why urban densification ignores the social dimension of sustainability
The business of densification refers to more or less aggressive urban development practices that use the broad political consensus on the need for urban densification to promote profit-driven development, often dressed up in the rhetoric of eco-efficiency, and to the detriment of social policy objectives (e.g. affordable housing, cultural heritage, community cohesion). The implementation of urban densification requires deep changes in the practic…
Small plots, big stakes: Strategic responses to individual landowners’ property rights in densification projects
One of the difficulties in implementing densification objectives is that planners often do not have sufficient coercive power to restrict property rights, which means that landowners can resist the implementation of land use plans. As a result, planning increasingly takes place on the project level, allowing planning authorities and developers to renegotiate the terms and conditions of densification. While project-level negotiations have been res…
Neglecting informality? – Rethinking planning in sub-Saharan African cities
Public spaces in global South cities are being redeveloped, often displacing informal workers and leading to conflicts over access. In sub-Saharan African cities, land is often collectively owned by ethnic communities under customary laws, creating a complex governance system. This article examines the use of public spaces by informal workers in urban Africa, highlighting their negotiation for access through plural institutions. Using case studie…
Mapping municipal land policies: Applications of flexible zoning for densification
Municipalities develop individual land policies and can choose not to apply available planning instruments or to apply them differently than intended. While this strategic action can endanger the effectiveness of public policies, it is rarely considered in large-scale analyses. A new geospatial method is presented that captures such strategic action. Empirical evidence from the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, reveals municipalities’ application of p…
Planning for social sustainability: Mechanisms of social exclusion in densification through large-scale redevelopment projects in Swiss cities
In many cities, there has been renewed interest over the last 30 years in densification as part of wider efforts to combat urban sprawl. In daily practice, however, densification is a contested process because of its redistributive effects. Next to potential environmental advantages, it produces both benefits and losses for different individuals and households. The redistributive effects are an expression of conflicts between environmental, econo…
Making room for affordable housing: Project-based negotiations between planning authorities and landowners in Dutch and Swiss densification
The emerging objective to combat urban sprawl has put densification on the political agenda. Simultaneously, the complexity of planning within the existing built environment means that planning increasingly occurs on the project level. Project-based negotiations between planning authorities and landowners, in which agreements between parties are formalized in negotiated land use plans or private law contracts, thus shape the outcomes of densifica…
Commoning the compact city: The role of old and new commons in urban development
Although densification is generally seen to contribute to more sustainable urban development, it is often linked to market-oriented and for-profit development, contributing to the enclosure of urban space. We analyse how densification can take a different path through processes of commoning. We particularly aim to understand how commoning initiatives can contribute to new institutional arrangements that counteract enclosure and commodification in…
Ensuring Public Access to Green Spaces in Urban Densification: The Role of Planning and Property Rights
Implementing densification while ensuring green space accessibility is a crucial planning challenge. The powerful role of private for-profit actors densification projects mean that green spaces are at risk of being co-opted by private interests and transformed into club goods. Using a new-institutionalist approach, we analyse the implementation of densification and urban greening based on two case-studies in Switzerland and the Netherlands. We as…
Non-compliance and non-enforcement: An unexpected outcome of flexible soft densification policy in the Netherlands
In many urban areas, governments are struggling to curb urban sprawl while simultaneously trying to keep up with growing pressures on the housing market. As a result, housing developments increasingly take place within the existing housing stock through soft densification in the form of subdivisions. Municipalities aim to regulate this type of densification because of growing pressure on existing infrastructure, neighborhood cohesion, and (rental…
The dilemma of women empowerment in informal artisanal and small-scale gold ore mining in Ghana
For several years, women demand more decision-making power from their husbands and the society. Studies indicate that egalitarian decision-making power can be beneficial in many important ways to the household and society, and the pathway to this desire policy objective is through women empowerment. Yet, this is not as obvious as it seems. On the one hand, women empowerment is a game changer. On the other hand, the problem of women empowerment is…
Planning with power. Implementing urban densification policies in Zurich, Switzerland
This article contributes to the debate on power in planning. It builds on recent developments linked with the so-called new institutional turn in planning. By bridging planning, new institutionalism, and power, the article ambitions to (1) develop a conceptual framework that captures the role of power in concrete spatial development projects, and (2) illustrate the potential of this framework with a real-life example of contested urban redevelopm…
Six modes of co-production for sustainability
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as an eme…
The commodification of temporary housing
The business of densification: Distribution of power, wealth and inequality in Swiss policy making
In Switzerland, the fight against uncontrolled urban sprawl and the protection of agricultural land have a long tradition. To reconcile these concerns, the Swiss voting majority agreed to introduce densification as a legally binding policy objective in 2013. Simultaneously, however, densification processes have started to threaten the housing situation of low- and middle-income tenants due to higher rents following redevelopment. In this article,…
Governing contemporary commons: The Institutional Resource Regime in dialogue with other policy frameworks
This introductory article to the special issue on the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) framework presents an overview of the latest developments of the framework. The IRR framework has been established as an important supplement to existing (neo)institutional approaches focusing on the management of natural resources. One of the major contributions of the IRR framework is its ability to appraise the institutional complexity of heterogeneous re…
The drama of the grabbed commons: Anti-Politics Machine and Local Responses
This article explores the nexus between old and new commons, anti-politics, and Corporate Social Responsibility measures in the context of on-going land grabbing. Detailed case studies in Ghana, Malawi, Morocco, and Tanzania show that powerful discourses of development, women's empowerment, and wasteland productivity increase serve as anti-politics machines that hide the fact that winners are few and losers many. Despite differential bargaining p…
The poverty of neoliberalized feminism: Gender equality in a 'best practice' large-scale land investment in Ghana
Feminist ideas have entered the neoliberal agricultural development agenda, including increasingly ubiquitous public-private partnerships and businesses. Rhetorically committed to gender equality, these new development actors have reduced equality to a matter of numbers, seeking to include women in their projects while disregarding intersectionally gendered power relations that suffuse any development context. This article seeks to illustrate how…
Constraints and opportunities in gender relations: Sugarcane outgrower schemes in Malawi
Who gains from contract farming? Dependencies, power relations, and institutional change
The paper highlights the mechanisms through which outgrower contract farming creates dependencies at the local level. Using sugarcane case study in Malawi, we show that dependencies are created through redefinition of use rights to customary land and through the redefinition of cash flows into outgrower communities. Through this two-dimensional process, corporations can secure access to land, exert control over local communities and transform the…
Instruments of Land Policy: Dealing with Scarcity of Land
Land, scarcity, and property rights
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the strategies used by planners to reinforce their position in front of other well-protected interests. It aims to discover how planners can use different policy instruments, coming from either public or private law, to support the implementation of land use plans. The book also aims to bring together examples from diffe…
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as an eme…
Institutional Resource Regimes: Towards sustainability through the combination of property-rights theory and policy analysis
Six modes of co-production for sustainability
Functional regulatory spaces
Decommodification as a foundation for ecological economics
Ecological economists have emphasized the study of commodification (i.e., the development of market-based exchange and valuation) rather than decommodification processes (i.e., the degree of immunization from market dependency). This is surprising given the fact that large-scale decommodification may be our best option for a post-growth transition so dear to many ecological economists. Based on Heinsohn and Steiger's theory of ownership, we seek …
Who gains from contract farming? Dependencies, power relations, and institutional change
The paper highlights the mechanisms through which outgrower contract farming creates dependencies at the local level. Using sugarcane case study in Malawi, we show that dependencies are created through redefinition of use rights to customary land and through the redefinition of cash flows into outgrower communities. Through this two-dimensional process, corporations can secure access to land, exert control over local communities and transform the…
The strategic use of time-limited property rights in land-use planning: Evidence from Switzerland
While land-use plans are regularly revised, property rights are extremely stable over time. Yet, the stability of property rights resulting from the current conception of exclusive ownership makes the implementation of land-use plans increasingly complicated, difficult and long. Planners recognized the need for more flexibility in many urban contexts to effectively steer spatial development in the already built environment. Relying on a detailed …
The poverty of neoliberalized feminism: Gender equality in a 'best practice' large-scale land investment in Ghana
Feminist ideas have entered the neoliberal agricultural development agenda, including increasingly ubiquitous public-private partnerships and businesses. Rhetorically committed to gender equality, these new development actors have reduced equality to a matter of numbers, seeking to include women in their projects while disregarding intersectionally gendered power relations that suffuse any development context. This article seeks to illustrate how…
Why are housing cooperatives successful? Insights from Swiss affordable housing policy
Housing policy is primarily regulated at the municipal level, especially in view of the international trend towards the withdrawal of the national state in this sector. This article examines recent developments in Swiss housing policy in five large cities, and the counter-reactions that are emerging due to an acute housing shortage. Relying on critical literature on housing, we present the main instruments of the Swiss housing policy and empirica…
The drama of the grabbed commons: Anti-Politics Machine and Local Responses
This article explores the nexus between old and new commons, anti-politics, and Corporate Social Responsibility measures in the context of on-going land grabbing. Detailed case studies in Ghana, Malawi, Morocco, and Tanzania show that powerful discourses of development, women's empowerment, and wasteland productivity increase serve as anti-politics machines that hide the fact that winners are few and losers many. Despite differential bargaining p…
Land Grabbing, the State and Chiefs: The Politics of Extending Commercial Agriculture in Ghana
Since 2006, Ghana has experienced a wave of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for agricultural purposes. Although these acquisitions are enabled by favourable agricultural and investment policies, investors nevertheless generally negotiate directly with traditional authorities, often bypassing state authorities in the acquisition process. The strength of customary authorities is often attributed to the weakness of the state. Considering histo…
Planning for social sustainability: Mechanisms of social exclusion in densification through large-scale redevelopment projects in Swiss cities
In many cities, there has been renewed interest over the last 30 years in densification as part of wider efforts to combat urban sprawl. In daily practice, however, densification is a contested process because of its redistributive effects. Next to potential environmental advantages, it produces both benefits and losses for different individuals and households. The redistributive effects are an expression of conflicts between environmental, econo…
The commodification of temporary housing
Constraints and opportunities in gender relations: Sugarcane outgrower schemes in Malawi
Pour une approche ressourcielle du développement durable
Cet article défend la thèse de la pertinence d’une approche « ressourcielle » du développement durable. Pour ce faire, l’article montre dans quelle mesure la gestion durable des systèmes de ressource – et notamment des ressources communes, que celles-ci soient naturelles, infrastructurelles ou encore culturelles – constitue une condition sine qua non de la durabilité ; ceci dans la mesure où les questions de ressources sont autant des questions «…
Non-compliance and non-enforcement: An unexpected outcome of flexible soft densification policy in the Netherlands
In many urban areas, governments are struggling to curb urban sprawl while simultaneously trying to keep up with growing pressures on the housing market. As a result, housing developments increasingly take place within the existing housing stock through soft densification in the form of subdivisions. Municipalities aim to regulate this type of densification because of growing pressure on existing infrastructure, neighborhood cohesion, and (rental…
Planning with power. Implementing urban densification policies in Zurich, Switzerland
This article contributes to the debate on power in planning. It builds on recent developments linked with the so-called new institutional turn in planning. By bridging planning, new institutionalism, and power, the article ambitions to (1) develop a conceptual framework that captures the role of power in concrete spatial development projects, and (2) illustrate the potential of this framework with a real-life example of contested urban redevelopm…
Governing contemporary commons: The Institutional Resource Regime in dialogue with other policy frameworks
This introductory article to the special issue on the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) framework presents an overview of the latest developments of the framework. The IRR framework has been established as an important supplement to existing (neo)institutional approaches focusing on the management of natural resources. One of the major contributions of the IRR framework is its ability to appraise the institutional complexity of heterogeneous re…
The role of Alpine development regimes in the development of second homes: Preliminary lessons from Switzerland
From landscape resources to landscape commons: Focussing on the non-utility values of landscape
Landscape is increasingly conceptualized as a resource. We argue that although a resource-based approach may be positive in terms of conservation outcomes, focusing on use value does not do sufficient justice to the many complex facets of landscape. Reiterating the Florence Declaration on Landscape, which considers that “landscape is a common good”, we suggest that the conceptualization of landscape as a commons will resolve the discrepancy. Howe…
Making room for affordable housing: Project-based negotiations between planning authorities and landowners in Dutch and Swiss densification
The emerging objective to combat urban sprawl has put densification on the political agenda. Simultaneously, the complexity of planning within the existing built environment means that planning increasingly occurs on the project level. Project-based negotiations between planning authorities and landowners, in which agreements between parties are formalized in negotiated land use plans or private law contracts, thus shape the outcomes of densifica…
Commoning the compact city: The role of old and new commons in urban development
Although densification is generally seen to contribute to more sustainable urban development, it is often linked to market-oriented and for-profit development, contributing to the enclosure of urban space. We analyse how densification can take a different path through processes of commoning. We particularly aim to understand how commoning initiatives can contribute to new institutional arrangements that counteract enclosure and commodification in…
Land-Conservation Strategies: The Dynamic Relationship between Acquisition and Land-Use Planning
Nonprofit organizations often pursue land acquisition as a nonpolitical, private property rights approach to conservation of ecological and cultural resources. Yet acquisition and regulatory land-use planning are intertwined, both in terms of political strategies and conservation outcomes. Our objectives are (1) to understand the relationship between the acquisition strategies of land trusts and their involvement in land-use planning and zoning, …
The Role of Swiss Civic Corporations in Land-Use Planning
Public authorities in charge of managing public real-estate assets at the local level face conflicting interests. In Switzerland, short-term solutions often prevail. This paper looks at another group of actors which are characterized by their long-term real-estate management strategies: civic corporations. In Switzerland old civic corporations, which share many characteristics with common pool resource (CPR) institutions, are large landowners, so…
Mapping municipal land policies: Applications of flexible zoning for densification
Municipalities develop individual land policies and can choose not to apply available planning instruments or to apply them differently than intended. While this strategic action can endanger the effectiveness of public policies, it is rarely considered in large-scale analyses. A new geospatial method is presented that captures such strategic action. Empirical evidence from the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, reveals municipalities’ application of p…
Régimes institutionnels de ressources et théorie de la régulation
Cet article postule que la combinaison d’une approche en termes de science politique (analyse des politiques publiques) et d’économie institutionnelle des ressources (théorie des droits de propriété) permet l’identification des dimensions régulatrices les plus importantes permettant d’expliquer l’usage (non) durable des ressources naturelles et culturelles. Sur cette base, il développe un cadre d’analyse novateur, celui des régimes institutionnel…
The sustainable management of the landscape: The lessons the new regional nature parks must draw from the experience of the old corporations
Le paysage est de plus en plus perçu comme une ressource. À ce titre, il est nécessaire de trouver des instruments juridiques, politiques ou économiques susceptibles de gérer cette « ressource-paysage » sur le long terme. Le gouvernement suisse a introduit récemment l’instrument des parcs naturels régionaux, organisés selon le modèle français, dans sa législation de protection de la nature et du paysage. Une mise en regard des nouveaux parcs avec…
Gestion durable du paysage: Les leçons que les nouveaux parcs naturels régionaux doivent tirer de l’expérience des anciennes corporations
Le paysage est de plus en plus perçu comme une ressource. À ce titre, il est nécessaire de trouver des instruments juridiques, politiques ou économiques susceptibles de gérer cette « ressource-paysage » sur le long terme. Le gouvernement suisse a introduit récemment l’instrument des parcs naturels régionaux, organisés selon le modèle français, dans sa législation de protection de la nature et du paysage. Une mise en regard des nouveaux parcs avec…
The role of common pool resource institutions in the implementation of Swiss natural resource management policy
By analysing Swiss common pool resource (CPR) institutions, this paper aims to contribute to the debate on comanagement while demonstrating how important it is to take into account the structuring role played by public policies in the regulation of natural resource use in western countries characterized by significant state intervention. The comparative analysis of three detailed case studies dealing with hunting, flood protection and landscape m…
Towards Integrated Governance of Landscape Development: The Swiss Model of Regional Nature Parks
Coherent regulation of landscape as a resource is a major challenge. How can the development interests of some actors (eg cable car operators and property developers) be reconciled with those of others (agriculture, forestry) and with conservation of biodiversity and scenic value? To help understand how the newly introduced Regional Nature Parks (RNPs) can improve the coherence of the regulation regime in Switzerland, we highlight current direct …
The role of common pool resource institutions in the implementation of Swiss natural resource management policy
By analysing Swiss common pool resource (CPR) institutions, this paper aims to contribute to the debate on comanagement while demonstrating how important it is to take into account the structuring role played by public policies in the regulation of natural resource use in western countries characterized by significant state intervention. The comparative analysis of three detailed case studies dealing with hunting, flood protection and landscape m…
Institutional Resource Regimes: Towards sustainability through the combination of property-rights theory and policy analysis
Les espaces fonctionnels: Nouveau référentiel de la gestion durable des ressources ?
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, notamment sous la pression des impératifs de la durabilité, on assiste à l’émergence de nouvelles formes de régulation des rapports entre les sociétés et leur environnement et, plus précisément, des usages sociaux des ressources naturelles. Ces nouveaux modes de régulation, empiriquement observables, sont caractérisés par un mouvement conjoint de ré-articulation des logiques sectorielles, de redéfinition des périmèt…
The Role of Swiss Civic Corporations in Land-Use Planning
Public authorities in charge of managing public real-estate assets at the local level face conflicting interests. In Switzerland, short-term solutions often prevail. This paper looks at another group of actors which are characterized by their long-term real-estate management strategies: civic corporations. In Switzerland old civic corporations, which share many characteristics with common pool resource (CPR) institutions, are large landowners, so…
Dossier « Le champ des commons en question: Perspectives croisées » - Gestion des ressources communes en Suisse : le rôle des institutions de gestion communautaire dans les politiques environnementale…
Cette contribution traite de la question des conditions de perpétuation des institutions de gestion communautaire de ressources (common pool resource institutions [CPRI]) dans le contexte des États contemporains, à partir du cas suisse. En particulier, elle discute trois hypothèses – la médiation, la multipositionnalité et la complémentarité – relatives aux conditions d’imbrication des CPRI dans les principales politiques publiques (environnement…
Land-Conservation Strategies: The Dynamic Relationship between Acquisition and Land-Use Planning
Nonprofit organizations often pursue land acquisition as a nonpolitical, private property rights approach to conservation of ecological and cultural resources. Yet acquisition and regulatory land-use planning are intertwined, both in terms of political strategies and conservation outcomes. Our objectives are (1) to understand the relationship between the acquisition strategies of land trusts and their involvement in land-use planning and zoning, …
Functional regulatory spaces
Pour une approche ressourcielle du développement durable
Cet article défend la thèse de la pertinence d’une approche « ressourcielle » du développement durable. Pour ce faire, l’article montre dans quelle mesure la gestion durable des systèmes de ressource – et notamment des ressources communes, que celles-ci soient naturelles, infrastructurelles ou encore culturelles – constitue une condition sine qua non de la durabilité ; ceci dans la mesure où les questions de ressources sont autant des questions «…
Decommodification as a foundation for ecological economics
Ecological economists have emphasized the study of commodification (i.e., the development of market-based exchange and valuation) rather than decommodification processes (i.e., the degree of immunization from market dependency). This is surprising given the fact that large-scale decommodification may be our best option for a post-growth transition so dear to many ecological economists. Based on Heinsohn and Steiger's theory of ownership, we seek …
Regional Nature Parks in Switzerland. Between top-Down and Bottom-Up Institution Building for Landscape Management
From landscape resources to landscape commons: Focussing on the non-utility values of landscape
Landscape is increasingly conceptualized as a resource. We argue that although a resource-based approach may be positive in terms of conservation outcomes, focusing on use value does not do sufficient justice to the many complex facets of landscape. Reiterating the Florence Declaration on Landscape, which considers that “landscape is a common good”, we suggest that the conceptualization of landscape as a commons will resolve the discrepancy. Howe…
The strategic use of time-limited property rights in land-use planning: Evidence from Switzerland
While land-use plans are regularly revised, property rights are extremely stable over time. Yet, the stability of property rights resulting from the current conception of exclusive ownership makes the implementation of land-use plans increasingly complicated, difficult and long. Planners recognized the need for more flexibility in many urban contexts to effectively steer spatial development in the already built environment. Relying on a detailed …
Instruments of Land Policy: Dealing with Scarcity of Land
Land, scarcity, and property rights
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the strategies used by planners to reinforce their position in front of other well-protected interests. It aims to discover how planners can use different policy instruments, coming from either public or private law, to support the implementation of land use plans. The book also aims to bring together examples from diffe…
Why are housing cooperatives successful? Insights from Swiss affordable housing policy
Housing policy is primarily regulated at the municipal level, especially in view of the international trend towards the withdrawal of the national state in this sector. This article examines recent developments in Swiss housing policy in five large cities, and the counter-reactions that are emerging due to an acute housing shortage. Relying on critical literature on housing, we present the main instruments of the Swiss housing policy and empirica…
The role of Alpine development regimes in the development of second homes: Preliminary lessons from Switzerland
Land Grabbing, the State and Chiefs: The Politics of Extending Commercial Agriculture in Ghana
Since 2006, Ghana has experienced a wave of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for agricultural purposes. Although these acquisitions are enabled by favourable agricultural and investment policies, investors nevertheless generally negotiate directly with traditional authorities, often bypassing state authorities in the acquisition process. The strength of customary authorities is often attributed to the weakness of the state. Considering histo…
Constraints and opportunities in gender relations: Sugarcane outgrower schemes in Malawi
Who gains from contract farming? Dependencies, power relations, and institutional change
The paper highlights the mechanisms through which outgrower contract farming creates dependencies at the local level. Using sugarcane case study in Malawi, we show that dependencies are created through redefinition of use rights to customary land and through the redefinition of cash flows into outgrower communities. Through this two-dimensional process, corporations can secure access to land, exert control over local communities and transform the…
The business of densification: Distribution of power, wealth and inequality in Swiss policy making
In Switzerland, the fight against uncontrolled urban sprawl and the protection of agricultural land have a long tradition. To reconcile these concerns, the Swiss voting majority agreed to introduce densification as a legally binding policy objective in 2013. Simultaneously, however, densification processes have started to threaten the housing situation of low- and middle-income tenants due to higher rents following redevelopment. In this article,…
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