Investigating Subterranean Swiss Banking with Open-Source Intelligence Tools


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Date

2024

Publication Type

Book Chapter

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Abstract

Over the past decade, open-source intelligence tools have become common practice in journalism but are still relatively little adopted by researchers in the fields of architecture, landscape, and urban studies. This chapter offers a glimpse into the potential of these methodologies to present prove of the existence of Alpine bank vaults storing gold and other precious metals. As such, buildings and infrastructures serve as a lens through which to investigate the contested conduct of financial institutions, even if they are designed to remain illegible.

Publication status

published

Book title

Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies

Journal / series

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Pages / Article No.

199 - 213

Publisher

gta Verlag

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Edition / version

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Subject

Gold; Swiss banking; Open-source intelligence; OSINT; Swiss Alps; Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies

Organisational unit

03715 - Stalder, Laurent / Stalder, Laurent check_circle
08810 - Schmid, Christian (Tit.-Prof.) check_circle
08616 - gta Verlag
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG

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Funding

197338 - Switzerland: A Technological Pastoral. The built and the territory (SNF)

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