Abstract
Over the past hundred years, the population in the town of Baden has tripled, while the built-up area has increased almost tenfold. Thanks to the protection afforded by the statutory regulations, the forest surface area has remained practically unchanged, and its boundaries have not been displaced. Occupying a proportion of 56% of the town territory in Baden, the forest has a close interchange with civilisation and with the modifications in the landscape brought about by human activity. In the light of this situation, the author poses the question whether it would not be sensible to sometimes displace forest boundaries, or to re-allocate an area of forest land, in order to increase the settlement density in a meaningful fashion. Besides this, he appeals for landscape and forest planning to be placed in a wider context by increasingly coordinating them beyond the limits of a given commune, or indeed of a region.
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