Switzerland: An Urban Portrait

This publi­ca­ti­on from 2005 con­sis­ting of three volu­mes and a map was a sen­sa­ti­on at the time and soon beca­me a clas­sic. It was published in three lan­guages and has lost none of its rele­van­ce to this day.

The result of seve­ral years of rese­arch by ETH Stu­dio Basel with four renow­ned Swiss archi­tects and a socio­lo­gist, as well as more than hundred stu­dents and assistants, this work ana­ly­ses the mul­ti­ple lay­ers and facets of Swiss urban land­scapes as well as the urban poten­ti­als for the future deve­lo­p­ment of Switz­er­land. In this way, the rese­arch team deve­lo­ped an urban typo­lo­gy: metro­po­li­tan regi­ons, net­works of cities, quiet zones, Alpi­ne resorts, and Alpi­ne fallowlands.

Vol. 1: Intro­duc­tion
Vol. 2: Bor­ders, Com­mu­nes – a Brief Histo­ry of the Ter­ri­to­ry;
Vol. 3: Mate­ri­als
Map: Urban Potentials

Aut­hors: Roger Die­ner, Jac­ques Her­zog, Mar­cel Mei­li, Pierre de Meu­ron, Chris­ti­an Schmid

Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006
Language: English, French, German
16.3 × 16.3 cm
1016 pages
83 b/w ill., 641 col. ill.
ISBN 978–3‑0346–0866‑4

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