Hannah Widmer
Hannah Widmer is a sociologist and human geographer. Since June 2024, she works as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE. She studied sociology and economics at the University of Zurich, completing her master's thesis on heterogeneity and residential segregation in the city of Zurich. Hannah worked as a consultant in a firm specializing in sustainable real estate projects before starting a PhD in human geography funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lausanne in 2020. She completed her PhD with a thesis on social diversity in public spaces and its relationship to the composition of the neighbourhood population. Her previous and current research focuses on processes of inclusion and exclusion in public spaces, the effect of the built environment on the use of public spaces, discourses on reallocating road space, and the influence of environmental policies in the building sector on housing inequalities.
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Widmer, H., Guinard, N., & Rérat, P. (2024). Tactical Urbanism to Develop Cycling Infrastructures: The Implementation of COVID Cycle Lanes in Switzerland. In N. Ortar & P. Rérat (Eds.), Cycling Through the Pandemic: Tactical Urbanism and the Implementation of Pop-Up Bike Lanes in the Time of COVID-19 (pp. 89–112). Springer International Publishing. external page https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45308-3_5
Widmer, H. (2023). Conviviality in Public Squares: How Affordances and Individual Factors Shape Optional Activities. Urban Planning, 8(4). external page https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i4.6237
Rérat, P., Haldimann, L., & Widmer, H. (2022). Cycling in the era of Covid-19: The effects of the pandemic and pop-up cycle lanes on cycling practices. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 15, 100677. external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2022.100677