As urban growth accelerates, the population density increases, with Geneva standing as Switzerland’s most densely populated city, at 13,000 inhabitants per square kilometer. Urban planning and new legal regulations interact with the relentless expansion of the city, which threatens to dissolve the very concept of a “city.” With limited space confined within political borders and an agricultural belt, how is the issue of demographic growth addressed? Moderated by Armelle Choplin (University of Geneva). The program is in partnership with the Haute école de musique, where students will offer a musical welcome at 6 p.m.
In French.
