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Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung ARE
Office fédéral du développement territorial ARE
Ufficio federale dello sviluppo territoriale ARE
Uffizi federal da svilup dal territori ARE
Regional and urban
planning in Switzerland
Pierre Yves Delcourt, Advisor, Federal Office for Spatial
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Summery
1. Trends and issues
2. The Confederation’s role
3. The « Swiss territory project » (regional and urban planning policy)
• Objectives and strategies
• Implementation
4. The federal agglomeration policy
• Objectives
• Implementation
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TRENDS AND ISSUES Foundations of the regional and urban policy in Switzerland
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1st issue : The urban sprawl
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1st issue : The urban sprawl
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1st issue : The urban sprawl
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2nd issue : the mobility explosion
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INFOPLAN ARE, GEOSTAT-BFS/OFS/UST, L+T/S+T, 2003
3rd Issue : institutional boundaries
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THE ROLE OF THE
CONFEDERATION
Distribution of competencies in regional and urban planning:
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Task of the federal government
Art. 75, Federal Constitution
1 The Confederation shall establish principles for “territory
planning”. It is the responsibility of the cantons and its
target is a judicious and measured land use and a
rational occupation of the territory.
2 The Confederation shall encourage and coordinate the
efforts of the cantons and work with them.
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THE SWISS TERRITORY
PROJECT
The regional and urban planning policy is defined in
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The Swiss Territory Project
1. Maintain the competitiveness through a polycentric urban
development
2. Coordination of transportation networks and land use
3. Aim at a sustainable development of urban areas
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1st strategy : Maintain the competitiveness
through a polycentric urban development
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2nd strategy : Coordination of transportation
networks and land use
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3rd strategy : Aim at a sustainable
development of urban areas
• coordinate urban and transportation development
• concentrate urbain development in the centers
• limit urban development in rural and peripheral areas
• limit the construction of second homes in tourist resorts
• enable the converse of brownfields
• promote sustainable development of urban neighborhoods
• provide a supply of housing adequate, balanced and
affordable
• protection against natural hazards
• preserve and develop the architectural heritage
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THE AGGLOMERATION POLICY
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The infrastructure fund
20,8 billion CHF (total) of which :
• 6,0 billion CHF for agglomeration projects :
• 2,1 billion CHF for « urgent projects » (2008)
• 1,5 billion CHF for the first stage (2011)
• 2,4 billion CHF for the next stages (2015, 2019)
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1st objective : Concentrate urban development
within current « city » boundaries
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2nd objective : Coordination of land use and
transportation networks
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Managing implementation : The Tripartite
Agglomeration Conference (TAC)
• Political platform of federal government, cantons, cities and
communes
• Aims :
• Closer collaboration between federal government,
cantons, cities and communes
• Development of joint agglomeration policy
• Information exchange
• Promotion of collaboration within agglomerations
• Tackling of specific agglomeration problems
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TAC: Past and ongoing activities
• Recommendations for collaboration in agglomerations
• Strategies for achieving an integral agglomeration policy
• Need for statutory action in support of agglomeration policy
• Coordination of agglomeration policy with rural regions
policy
• International competitiveness of agglomerations
• Policy on foreign nationals and integration
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