jeu. 16 avr.
|UNIL - Université de Lausanne
People Before Cars – Norman Garrick, Professor Emeritus
Norman Garrick is Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Connecticut and Lecturer at ETH Zürich. His work focuses on transportation, city making and urban quality of life, with particular attention to safety, sustainability and social equity.
Horaires et lieu
16 avr. 2026, 13:10 – 15:00
UNIL - Université de Lausanne, Quartier Centre, 1015 Lausanne, Suisse
Sur cet événement
Over the last quarter of a century, car ownership rates in Zürich have been falling steadily to now becoming one of the lowest in Western Europe and approaching the level of that in cities of the Global South. This is a tremendous achievement that has paid great dividends for the city and its residents in terms of social, economic and environmental sustainability. Yet it is an achievement that is too little known and discussed, even in Switzerland itself. The model of transportation planning practiced in Zürich and a handful of other Swiss cities is a time-proven solution that powerfully refutes the destructive car-centric predict-and-provide approach. The failure of this latter system in damaging individual cities and the planet’s ecosystem as a whole is well documented. Nonetheless, this is a system that dominates transportation provision in most cities around the globe. Engineers, planners and citizen advocates need to work toward precipitating a paradigm switch to the more city-friendly planning practiced in places like Zürich.
In this presentation, Professor Norman Garrick will examine how Zürich transitioned from a car-friendly city to one built around public transport. He will discuss how this transformation has affected the quality of life in the city and explore why Zürich’s approach to transportation planning represents an important model that deserves to be more widely promoted.
By
Assistant diplômé – Doctorant / OUVEMA
Organization
Registrations: https://www.unil.ch/events/en/1773659374240