Christian Schmid

Chris­ti­an Schmid is a geo­grapher, socio­lo­gist and urban rese­ar­cher. He is Titu­lar Pro­fes­sor for Socio­lo­gy at the Depart­ment of Archi­tec­tu­re, ETH Zürich. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was an urban acti­vist and video maker and work­ed in the cul­tu­ral cent­re Rote Fabrik in Zurich. He is a foun­ding mem­ber of the Inter­na­tio­nal Net­work for Urban Rese­arch and Action (INURA). His sci­en­ti­fic work is on pla­ne­ta­ry urba­ni­sa­ti­on, on com­pa­ra­ti­ve urban ana­ly­sis, and on theo­ries of space and the urban. He is the aut­hor of “Hen­ri Lefeb­v­re and the Theo­ry of the Pro­duk­ti­on of space” (Ver­so, 2022), a cri­ti­cal recon­s­truc­tion of Lefebvre’s theo­ry. He is a co-edi­tor of “Space, Dif­fe­rence, Ever­y­day Life: Rea­ding Hen­ri Lefeb­v­re” (with Kanish­ka Goo­ne­war­dena, Ste­fan Kip­fer, and Richard Mil­grom; Rout­ledge, 2008) and of “Urban Revo­lu­ti­on Now: Hen­ri Lefeb­v­re in Social Rese­arch and Archi­tec­tu­re” (with Łuka­sz Sta­nek and Ákos Mora­vánsz­ky; Ash­ga­te, 2015). Tog­e­ther with archi­tects Roger Die­ner, Jac­ques Her­zog, Mar­cel Mei­li and Pierre de Meu­ron he co-aut­ho­red “Switz­er­land: An Urban Por­trait” (Birk­häu­ser, 2006), a pio­nee­ring ana­ly­sis of exten­ded urba­ni­sa­ti­on. At the ETH Future Cities Labo­ra­to­ry Sin­ga­po­re, he was lea­ding a long-term rese­arch pro­ject on the com­pa­ri­son of eight lar­ge metro­po­li­tan are­as across the world, which has been published in “Voca­bu­la­ries for an Urba­ni­s­ing Pla­net: Theo­ry Buil­ding through Com­pa­ri­son » (with Moni­ka Streu­le; Birk­häu­ser, 2023). With Neil Bren­ner he was working on the theo­ri­sa­ti­on and inves­ti­ga­ti­on of pla­ne­ta­ry urba­ni­sa­ti­on, and with Mili­ca Topa­lo­vić he was lea­ding a rese­arch pro­ject on exten­ded urba­ni­sa­ti­on, which has been published in “Exten­ded Urba­ni­sa­ti­on: Tra­cing Pla­ne­ta­ry Struggles”(Birkhäuser, 2023).

Chris­ti­an Schmid: cur­ri­cu­lum vitae 

Chris­ti­an Schmid: publi­ca­ti­ons 

Web­site: New Agen­das under Pla­ne­ta­ry Urbanisation

Web­site: ETH Stu­dio Basel: Open Access

 

Chris­ti­an Schmid: Abschluss­vor­le­sung, Mai 2024