New Agendas under Planetary Urbanisation is an initiative for critical urban research and action stimulated by the perspective of planetary urbanisation. Inextricably bound to the ecologies of life on Earth, urbanisation processes are fuelling the current, fundamental social and environmental change, encompassing all spatial scales, across both built and un-built environments. This initiative approaches the urban and urbanisation through a decentered perspective on transformation across the entire territory, transcending the rural-urban and north-south divides.

Addressing scholars, practitioners and activists, this collection offers conceptual, theoretical, methodological and cartographic sources and tools in response to the political, social and environmental urgencies of planetary urbanisation. Hosted by the ETH Zürich Department of Architecture, the site aims to inform and support transdisciplinary research and pedagogies in urban studies, humanities and design, and to enable the communication and documentation of projects and actions, bringing together long-standing collaborations, work-in-progress, and emerging positions. Recorded seminars, texts, exhibitions and other resources presented here are based on an open source ethos.

New Agendas under Planetary Urbanisation has been initiated by ETH Zürich professorships of Urban Sociology and Architecture of Territory led by Christian Schmid and Milica Topalović. It is anchored within and funded by the ETH Zürich Department of Architecture the Future Cities Laboratory, and is affiliated to the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies and the LUS Doctoral Programme. ETH Studio Basel’s foundational research on territory is made available as an archive now formally hosted in this collection.