VISPA

General Information

For a short description of the project, see this pdf (german).

For the final report, download this pdf (german).

Publications

Bühler, E. (2009): Public spaces and social diversity: Editorial to the special issue. Geographica Helvetica, Vol 64, 1, pp. 2-4 (Englisch), 5-7 (German), 8-10 (French)

Kaspar, H. and Bühler, E. (2009): Planning, design and use of the public space Wahlenpar (Zurich, Switzerland): functional, visual and semiotic openness. Geographica Helvetica, Swiss Journal of Geography, Vol. 64, 1, pp. 21-29.

Kaspar, H. and Bühler, E. (2006): Räume und Orte als soziale Konstrukte. RaumPlanung, 125, pp. 91-95. (pdf, german)

Ostermann, F. (2009): Modeling, Analyzing and Visualizing Human Space Appropriation; PhD thesis, Zürich, Switzerland. (pdf, english)

Ostermann, F. (2009): Appropriation of Public Park Space - A GIS-based case study; Proceedings of the 17th GIS Research UK conference, pp. 95-98, Durham, UK.

Ostermann, F. (2009): Indicators for Socially Sustainable Park Use; Proceedings of the 14th CORP Conference on Regional Planning, pp. 243-252, Sitges, Spain.

Ostermann, F. and Timpf, S. (2009): Use and Appropriation of Space in Urban Public Parks - GIS Methods in Social Geography; Geographica Helvetica, Swiss Journal of Geography, Vol. 64, 1, pp. 30-36.

Ostermann, F. and Timpf, S. (2007): Evaluating Sustainable Space Appropriation in Public Parks; in: Proceedings of the 12th CORP Conference on Regional Planning, Vienna.(pdf of the presentation, english)

Ostermann, F. and Timpf, S. (2007): Modelling Space Appropriation in Public Parks; in: Proceedings of the 10th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Aalborg.(pdf of the presentation, english); winner of the Best Paper Award

Schmit, F. and Killer, V. (2005): Raumaneignung in Parks - Visualisierung und Analyse von sozialen Prozessen in GIS; in: Strobl, J. (Ed.): Symposium für Angewandte Geoinformatik (AGIT) 2005, Salzburg, Huetig Verlag, pp. 645-654. (pdf, german)

Timpf, S. and Ostermann, F. (2006): Claiming Personal Space in Public Parks; in: Raubal, M. et al. (Eds.): Geographic Information Science, 4th International Conference, Münster, ifgi prints no. 28, pp. 369-372

Presentations

Note: Only those are listed where the slides are available for download.

Bühler, E. (2008): Raumaneignung in städtischen Parks; talk at the Gleichstellungkommission Stadt Zürich. (pdf, german)

Bühler, E., Kaspar, H. and Ostermann, F. (2008): Sozial nachhaltige Parkanlagen; talk at the management board of GrünStadtZürich. (Bühler's, Kaspar's and Ostermann's part, all pdf and in german)

Bühler, E. and Timpf, S. (2005): Sustainable design, management and appropriation of urban public parks; poster from the NFP54-Kickoff-Meeting, Bern. (pdf, english or german)

Kaspar, H. (2008): Unsicherheitsgefühle in öffentlichen Parkanlagen; talk at the Gleichstellungskommission Stadt Zürich. (pdf, german)

Kaspar, H. (2008): Ein- und Ausschlussprozesse in städtischen Parkanlagen; talk at the international workshop on Socially Sustainable Park Use, Zürich 03.10.2008. ( pdf, german)

Kaspar, H. und Bühler, E. (2006): Vertrautheit mit dem Ort - Raumaneignung in städtischen Parks; poster from the Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2006, Zürich. (jpeg, german)

Kaspar, H. und Ostermann, F. (2006): Lebensqualität Park - Sich im städtischen Grün "wie zuhause" fühlen; poster from a 2006 Meeting of the Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, Bern. (jpeg, german)

Ostermann, F. (2009): Indicators for Socially Sustainable Park Use; Proceedings of the 14th CORP Conference on Regional Planning, Sitges, Spain. (pdf, english)

Ostermann, F. (2009): Appropriation of Public Park Space - A GIS-based case study; talk at the 14th GIS Research UK conference, Durham, UK. (pdf, english)

Ostermann, F. (2009): Visualization of Human Space Appropriation in Urban Public Parks; talk at the workshop GeoViz 2009, Hamburg. (pdf, english)

Ostermann, F. (2008): Parknutzung in Zürich - Erkenntnisse aus systematischen Beobachtungen am Beispiel des Wahlenparks; talk at the international workshop on Socially Sustainable Park Use, Zürich. (pdf, german)

Ostermann, F. (2007): GIS Methods for a Critical Geography - Use and Appropriation of Space in Urban Public Parks; talk at the IGU Gender and Geography Commision Symposium, Zürich. (pdf, english)

Ostermann, F. (2006): Visualizing Space Appropriation in Public Parks; talk at the UZH GIScience Colloquium. (pdf, english)

Ostermann, F. and Timpf, S. (2006): Claiming Personal Space in Public Parks; poster from the GIScience 2006, Münster. (pdf, english)