On Sunday, February 9, a new vote was buried, not by the Röstigraben which is becoming less and less relevant to the analysis of Swiss politics, but by a divide between urban and rural areas. The popular initiative «Davantage de logements abordables» (More affordable housing) was accepted in all the cantons of French-speaking Switzerland, as well as in Basel-Stadt; elsewhere, only the German-speaking cities accepted the text. The aim here is not to analyze this new Swiss political divide for the umpteenth time, but rather to offer a few thoughts on the forms that future relations between urbanity and the countryside might take.
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