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paperback. Condition: New. Paperback. Pub Date: October 2009 Pages: 289 Language: Chinese in Publisher: Sichuan Publishing Group. Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House Basel metropolitan area: the European model of metropolitan area is a publication of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Basel Studio Basel. and its edge Switzerland. France. Germany Three metropolitan area Urban Studies. root based on a series of research projects done in the studio. this publication comic expression to convey the Basel city Three .…

Gr.8°, 311 S., zahlr., meist farb. u. oft ganzseit. Abb., Kart., Tadellos. EA. - «What is a city? What determines its specificity? 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 specific ways of dealing with these conditions. They tend to produce and reproduce their own specificity, 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.» 1400 gr. Schlagworte: Architektur - Städtebau.…