Switzerland – an Urban Portrait
Switzerland – an Urban Portrait

Author: Roger Diener

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-03-04

Total Pages: 1016

ISBN-13: 3034608667

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Designing a new national map of urban topography for Switzerland. The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, this three-volume work contains explorations of the multiple layers and facets of Swiss towns and cities by renowned architects Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili, Pierre de Meuron, and Christian Schmid, as well as possible and/or desirable scenarios for the future development of country’s main cities and its Alpine region. It also includes maps of urban topography. Leading Swiss architects examine Switzerland’s built environment An important contribution to the discussion of how Switzerland might look in the future Visionary urban topographies in a globalized world

The Territorial Future of the City
The Territorial Future of the City

Author: Giovanni Maciocco

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-06-12

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 3540775145

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The volume brings together contributions by leading scholars and young academics with experience in the urban potential of the territory in situations not necessarily linked to the dense metropolis, its compact form or to city sprawl. What brings these scholars together is their common reflection on this central theme, though from varied disciplinary and experimental backgrounds. They offer new forms of representing social and spatial processes of the contemporary society.