Zürich ohne Grenzen

Zurich wit­hout borders

Zurich, the cos­mo­po­li­tan metro­po­lis, the city that stri­ves for inter­na­tio­nal fame and reco­gni­ti­on, has long sin­ce bro­ken through the boun­da­ries of its Swiss catch­ment area. Zurich no lon­ger mea­su­res its­elf against Basel or Bern, but against Frank­furt, Munich, Paris or Lon­don. The almost uncan­ny pres­ti­ge of this city, based on its far-rea­ching influence and gre­at finan­cial power, is both fasci­na­ting and frightening.

For its resi­dents, the glit­te­ring city wit­hout bor­ders is a place of bound­less pro­blems. The urban deve­lo­p­ment seems threa­tening and rest­ric­ti­ve. Is the plan­ning of the gro­wing city get­ting out of hand, brea­king through boun­da­ries and losing more and more of its sub­s­tance and qua­li­ty of life in the pro­cess? This car­di­nal ques­ti­on, and the asso­cia­ted ques­ti­on of a “bet­ter future” for all, are at the heart of this book.

The book is based on a series of lec­tures on the deve­lo­p­ment and future of Zurich at ETH Zurich in 1984/85, orga­nis­ed by Theo Gins­burg and the Ssen­ter for Appli­ed Urba­nism (SAU).

Edi­ted by Theo Gins­burg, Hans­ruedi Hitz, Chris­ti­an Schmid und Richard Wolff

Zurich: pendo Verlag, 1986
Softcover
German
240 pages
Num. Ill. s/w
ISBN 3–85842-113–8

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