Inevitable Specificity of Cities

ETH Studio Basel

ISBN 10: 3037783745 / ISBN 13: 9783037783740

Editore: Lars Muller Publishers, 2013

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. Num Pages: 320 pages, 300. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 176 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1048. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Codice articolo V9783037783740

Riassunto:

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.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno: 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. 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.

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Titolo: Inevitable Specificity of Cities
Casa editrice: Lars Muller Publishers
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: New