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In Germany and Switzerland, land use and urban sprawl there has been a central topic of public debate for several years. Cantonal structure plans in Switzerland as well as state and regional plans in Germany contain binding regulations for managing settlement development. Studies that examine the implementation of these regulations are lacking. This paper analyses the implementation of selected instruments of supra-local spatial planning for managing settlement development in Germany and Switzerland using the Policy Arrangement Approach. The case study covers the regions Oberland (Bavaria), Südlicher Oberrhein (Baden-Württemberg) and the cantons of Zurich and St. Gallen. The results show that actors implement spatial-planning instruments in situative negotiation processes in which they exploremargins and alternatives. Central to these processes is a regional specific overlapping of (i) interlinkings of formal and informal instruments, (ii) the interplay between local autonomy, supra-local control and superordinate context factors, and (iii) the overlapping of supra-local and regional discourses. The results show that the Policy Arrangement Approach helps to better understand how spatial planning works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper provides an overview of the history of activities as they relate to organ documentation and research in Switzerland. Within this study, the Orgeldokumentationszentrum (ODZ), its foundation and holdings as well as its multifold activities will be presented. The ODZ was founded in 2006 at the Department of Music of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and is the only Competence Center in Switzerland that systematically documents and investigates the history of organ building and organ music in Switzerland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]