Waldstadt, between strategic vision and the logic of protection

23.11.2018 | In the context of combatting urban sprawl in the landscape, awareness of the stakes involved in today’s transition towards sustainability promotes research into new approaches to the metropolitan areas of the Swiss central plateau.  Targeted modifications to assignment plans in certain sectors are looming for the years ahead and challenge the conventional practices of the past decades.  In the latest edition of the ASPAN Cahiers, specifically devoted to the issue of forestry areas, Emmanuel Rey and Yorick Ringeisen are invited to present, jointly with Alec von Graffenried, the Waldstadt project’s unusual approach which aims to create a new neighbourhood on a wooded area of the city of Bern, currently cut off from the Bremgarten forest by the motorway.