@auhirsch

urban researcher/stadtforscher @spur_eth @ETH

 Zürich, Switzerland
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Joined August 2009
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New very relevant project for us on World Refugee day!
ETH SPUR@spur_eth20 Jun 2023
We honor the strengths & struggles of refugees on #WorldRefugeeDay. With a new @snf_ch project on Urban Humanitarian Housing, we hope to add to improving the well-being and agency of refugees in cities. Together with @BeirutUrbanLab & @InstitutoPensa5👇🏽 shorturl.at/sLNX9
Picture of two multistory building, one of them unfinished and informally inhabited by Syrian refugees in Beirut, Lebanon.

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David Kostenwein retweeted
ETH SPUR@spur_eth17 Nov 2022
As part of our collaborative research project with @ICRC on building resilience in health infrastructure in conflict-affected settings, we visited Beirut to conduct participatory workshops in a governmental hospital dealing with multiple crises. +👇🏽 spur.ethz.ch/spur-news-chann…
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David Kostenwein retweeted
ETH SPUR@spur_eth9 Jun 2022
Last week, SPUR’s Humanitarian Planning Hub presented the first results of the collaboration with @Refugees and the #Geneva Technical Hub (SDC): A risk mitigation strategy GIS tool and a catalog of flood risk mitigation measures for humanitarian settlements. Soon more to follow!
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4 years of researching Cape town and Bogota with 8 interdisciplinary researchers at the Urban Research Incubator @istp_eth. On this website, we compiled our dissertations, policy briefs, films, articles, podcasts, data and more coming out of this project: urbanri.ethz.ch
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David Kostenwein retweeted
ETH SPUR@spur_eth7 Feb 2022
Great news! @spur_eth is part of a new collaborative research project aiming to develop innovative solutions for #humanitarianaction. The project will support @ICRC in creating a resilience strategy for health infrastructure in conflict-affected settings. spur.ethz.ch/spur-news-chann…
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David Kostenwein retweeted
ETH SPUR@spur_eth3 Jan 2022
We recently launched the Humanitarian Planning Hub. aiming to co-create knowledge between academia and practice, serving the housing needs of displaced populations, through environmentally/socially sustainable humanitarian planning. 👇🏽 spur.ethz.ch/spur-news-chann…
Muhkjar refugee camp in the Central African Republic ©UNAMID

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New paper by David Kostenwein: 'Between walls and fences: How different types of #GatedCommunities shape the streets around them' ow.ly/cBNZ50Dvr14
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Uberopolis=Distopia. A critical view on ridehailers from an urban planner: blogs.iadb.org/ciudadessoste…
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