News & Events
Alina Bärnthaler joins the SPUR-team as PhD Candidate
In June 2025, Alina Bärnthaler joined the Spatial Development and Urban Policy (SPUR) Research Group of Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann at ETH Zurich.
Dr. Dasha Kuletskaya joins the SPUR team
Dr. Dasha Kuletskaya will join SPUR as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow from May 2025 to April 2027 to work on an interdisciplinary research project “The Power of Fiction: Unravelling the Social Construction of the Economic Value of Real Estate,” funded by the IDEA League and DAAD Prime Fellowships.
Talk about "Smart Cities and Urban Resilience", 21 May 2025
Visiting Professor Dr. Yue Ge will give a talk on "Smart Cities and Urban Resilience – A Central Florida Perspective." The presentation, followed by a discussion, is hosted by the Future Cities Lab and the SPUR research group. It will take place on 21 May at the FCL Conference Space (HIL H45.2) from 11:15 am to 12:30 pm.
New article in Nature Cities – Emotions overrule cognitive evaluations in urban neighborhood preferences
Peri-urban growth is reshaping rural areas and creating challenges. Using immersive experiments, this study finds that emotional reactions dominate over cognitive judgments, with people favoring urban and rural settings over peri-urban ones in neighborhood preferences