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Infrastructure Geography

  • Mobility Infrastructures: Pedestrian and bicycle vestibule at Zurich’s Langstrasse. Photo: Nitin Bathla

  • Infrastructure counter-imaginaries: Poster from the 2024 Autobahn expansion referendum in Switzerland. Photo: Nitin Bathla

  • Circulatory Infrastructures: Approach ramp to the car park of ETH Hönggerberg Campus, Zurich. Photo: Nitin Bathla

  • Infrastructure Ecologies: spiders using artificial light along the Limmat River in Zurich to hunt insects drawn to the glow. Photo - Nitin Bathla


  • Infrastructure Peripheries: Public lighting installed next to a car park near Zurich’s Platzspitz Park. Photo: Nitin Bathla


  • Highway Urbanism: Agrarian-urban land conversion along an expressway on the peripheries of Delhi. Photo - Nitin Bathla

Infrastructure Geography explores infrastructures as dynamic geographies that organize environments, politics, and everyday life. Bringing together political ecology, urban studies, and critical infrastructure research, the group examines how infrastructural systems — from lighting and mobility to energy and water — shape spatial relations and socio-ecological futures.

Current Projects

Spotlight: Sustainability Potential of Outdoor Light Technology

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Group leader

Dr. Nitin Bathla

Group members

Sophia Heller

Belongs to the organizational unit

Space, Nature and Society

Affiliation to the Research Clusters

Social, Cultural and Environmental Connections

Lives, Goods and Technologies in a Mobile World