All Projects

Urban and Regional Development

Our work makes a contribution to the sustainable development and design of urban and rural areas. We support public and private clients in finding solutions to issues concerning spatial development and urban, regional and landscape planning.

Our activities encompass:

Spatial development concepts and programmes:

• Regional and municipal development concepts and action plans
• Development and open space guidelines for municipalities and districts
• Specialist planning and sectoral concepts (e.g. landscape planning)
• Residential development strategies for cantons and regions
• Spatial planning assessment methods and location evaluation

Structure planning for cantons and regions:

• Conceptual input and general revision of cantonal structure plans
• Development and revision of regional spatial planning concepts and structure plans
• Regional planning management on behalf of planning regions

Municipal land use planning:

• Development and revision of municipal land use plans
• Development of and procedural support for special usage plans/design plans

Settlement development strategies within the context of local authority finances

• Modelling area development and the impact on local authority finances (including tax revenue and infrastructure requirements/costs)
• Settlement development strategies focusing on the efficient use of local authority finances

Development of sustainability appraisal methods:

• Sustainability appraisals of formal spatial plans
• Assessing the sustainability of informal spatial planning processes (site development evaluation for the «Cité des Sciences»)
• Drawing up concepts for monitoring and controlling sustainable spatial development
• Consulting services focusing on sustainability and gender equality in planning processes

Landscape planning and the design of public spaces:

• Landscape development concepts
• Landscape planning support for infrastructure measures
• Integration of buildings and facilities from an ecological and design perspective
• Development of noise abatement measures

Process support and moderation:

• Design and organisation of participative planning processes
• Moderation of committees and public events

Our staff come from a wide range of specialist backgrounds and this ensures that your projects are handled on a competent, interdisciplinary basis. We work closely with our transportation and environmental planners and regional economists and collaborate with renowned architects and scientists in Switzerland and abroad.

Our clients include cities and towns, municipalities, cantons, regions and federal departments, as well as private parties both in Switzerland and abroad.