Title & Author:

The inevitable specificity of cities : Napoli, Nile Valley, Belgrade, Nairobi, Hong Kong, Canary Islands, Beirut, Casablanca / edited by ETH Studio Basel ; Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili, Pierre de Meuron, Manuel Herz, Christian Schmid, Milica Topalović [translations, Fiona Elliott, Catherine Schelbert, Steven Lindberg].

Publication:

Zürich : Lars Müller, [2015]
©2015

Description:

311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
How cities are inevitably specific / Jacques Herzog -- How do cities differ / Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron -- Specificity: territory, power and difference / Marcel Meili -- Napoli, Italy beauty and threat / Jasmine Kastani, Christian Schmid -- Nile Valley, Egypt urbanization of an oasis / Mathias Gunz -- Belgrade, Serbia the stability of the informal / Marcel Meili -- Nairobi, Kenya parallel power systems / Shadi Rahbaran with Manuel Herz -- Hong Kong, China engineering territory / Rolf Jenni -- Canary Islands, Japan open -- closed / Jacques Herzog -- Beirut, Lebanon nation versus neighborhood / Manuel Herz -- Casablanca, Morocco the force of the everyday / Mathias Gunz -- Specificity and urbanization: a theoretical outlook Christian Schmid.

Summary:

What is a city? What determines its specific city? What shapes its quality? The evolution of the contemporary city does not follow a linear movement. It is shaped by transformation processes that are directed toward often distant and conflicting goals. Even though cities are inscribed into global processes and networks, they develop their own specifi c ways of dealing with these conditions. They tend to produce and reproduce their own specific city, their own patterns and character traits. Using the categories of territory, power, and difference -- also lending the book its structure -- the texts analyze different case studies of cities and urbanized territories, ranging from the Canary Islands to Hong Kong and Nairobi, unfolding the distinctiveness of their physical and social existences. With contributions by Roger Diener, Mathias Gunz, Manuel Herz, Jacques Herzog, Rolf Jenni, Marcel Meili, Shadi Rahbaran, Christian Schmid, and Milica Topalovic.

ISBN:

9783037783740 (hd. bd.)
3037783745 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
cities.
urban sociology.
Städer.
Stadssociologi.

Added entries:

Diener, Roger, 1950- editor.
Herzog, Roger, editor.
Meili, Marcel, editor.
De Meuron, Pierre, editor.
Herz, Manuel, editor.
Schmid, Christian, editor.
Topalović, Milica, editor.
Elliott, Fiona, 1951- translator.
Schelbert, Catherine, translator.
Lindberg, Steven, translator.
ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288874
Call No.: BIB 230854
Status: Available