Christian Schmid is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
He studied geography and sociology at the University of Zurich, and received his PhD from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. His dissertation, Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft: Henri Lefebvre und die Theorie der Produktion des Raumes, was published by Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart.
Christian Schmid has been active in the media as an organizer of cultural events and urban researcher since 1984. He has written and edited numerous publications on Zurich’s urban development, on urban and regional planning in international comparison, and on theories of the city and of space.
He cofounded the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA) in 1991 and was a researcher at the Laboratoire de Géographie Urbaine, Université Paris X Nanterre 1993-94. He was then an assistant lecturer at the Geographical Department of the University of Bern 1997-2001.
In 1999, he became the scholarly director of the project Switzerland: An Urban Portrait at ETH Studio Basel. He became a lecturer in Sociology at the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture in 2001 and also a lecturer at ETH Studio Basel from 2007.
[last updated 08-Feb-10]