Broadway Bites: Learning from Zurich’s Housing Cooperatives

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Zurich has emerged as a global leader in innovative and inclusive approaches to urban living — especially through its extensive network of non-profit housing cooperatives. A key factor behind their success has been the use of competitions as a tool to further architectural and urban design exploration and promote public engagement in the urban development process.

In this edition of Broadway Bites, Susanne Schindler, an architect, historian, and research fellow at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, will explain how the City of Zurich has used competitions both to grant access to city-owned land and to ensure quality in housing construction in order to discuss what U.S. cities might learn from the Swiss experience.

Broadway Bites is a monthly lunch event at Swissnex, bringing guest speakers from Swissnex’s global network to give a short talk on their work.

Lunch will be provided.

Program

  • 12:00pm – Doors open
  • 12:15pm – Lunch & Presentation
  • 12:40pm – Conversation
  • 1:30pm – End

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Susanne Schindler

Susanne Schindler is a trained architect and urban historian focused on the intersection of policy, finance, and design in housing in a transnational perspective. Her most recent book is Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich (with Anne Kockelkorn and Rebekka Hirschberg, gta Verlag, 2024). She is currently a research fellow at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.