The elective deals with current transformation processes of metropolitan landscapes in Europe and introduces landscape architecture design on a territorial scale.On the basis of cartographic analysis and field trips, students will develop concrete strategies for Zurich metropolitan area up to the agglomerations of Winterthur, Baden and Zug.

In HS20, this course is offered in a focus work.Enrolment in the focus work in agreement with the lecturer [email protected].

The term `Urban Food` implicitly questions how the production, processing, distribution, consumption and disposal of food influence the relation between city and countryside. In the thesis elective course, students analyze different urban structures of Alpine cities and their territories from the perspective of food-systems.

We design models for the future of the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region. We try to think about the future of the city explicitly from the perspective of the landscape. An analysis on two levels (pedestrian perspective: field trips as well as data and plan analyzes: GIS) lays the foundation for the design discussion in the second part of the course.