Territory : on the development of landscape and city / published by ETH Studio Basel ; Roger Diener, Liisa Gunnarsson, Mathias Gunz, Vesna Jovanović, Marcel Meili, Christian Müller Inderbitzin, Christian Schmid.

Main entry:

ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute, author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2016]
©2016

Description:

227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

Between 2008 and 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, has been investigating the process of urbanisation taking place outside cities. Territory - in the context of this investigation denotes both: the surroundings that a city subsumes into its own structure and the core city itself, which is the centre of this process of urbanisation, or "confiscation". Investigated were six regions on six continents: The Nile Valley with the dense corset of natural landscape surrounding a linear city; Rome-Adria, where territorial cells have formed within the territory, spawning an urban type of tremendous dynamism; Florida, presenting highly complex patterns of territorial organisation; Vietnam's Red River Delta, where recent reform exposed traditional settlement and cultivation of the delta to freer forces; Oman, where urbanisation of a territory essentially means reclaiming the desert with the immediate necessity to develop a system for water distribution; and Belo Horizonte, where natural conditions likewise play a major role in organising the territory as surface mining entails huge transformations of the natural terrain. The new book features two introductory essays on ETH Studio Basel's research approach and on terminology, concise illustrated reports on the six regions, and four concluding topical essays.

ISBN:

9783038600237 paperback
3038600237 paperback

Subject:

Cities and towns Growth Case studies.
Villes Croissance Études de cas.
Cities and towns Growth

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Diener, Roger, 1950-
Gunnarsson, Liisa.
Gunz, Mathias.
Jovanović, Vesna.
Meili, Marcel.
Mueller Inderbitzin, Christian, 1977-
Schmid, Christian, 1970-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293855
Call No.: BIB 239078
Status: Available

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