From 2008 to 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marecl Meili, has been investigating the process of urbanization taking place outside cities. Territory brings together the results of their research in six significant locations: the Nile Valley; Rome-Adria, Italy; the Florida hinterlands; the Red River Delta in Vietnam; northern Oman, and Belo Horizonte and Minas Gerais in Brazil.
To describe the space surrounding cities, previously considered landscape, the contributors to this book use the term territory to denote both the surroundings that a city subsumes into its own structure and the core city itself, which is the center of this process of urbanization. And for each of the territories featured in the book, they investigate such key aspects of urbanization as water management, networks and infrastructure, agriculture, the role of mining and industrial production, and settlements.
To describe the space surrounding cities, previously considered landscape, the contributors to this book use the term territory to denote both the surroundings that a city subsumes into its own structure and the core city itself, which is the center of this process of urbanization. And for each of the territories featured in the book, they investigate such key aspects of urbanization as water management, networks and infrastructure, agriculture, the role of mining and industrial production, and settlements.
220 pages | 78 color plates, 24 halftones | 7 x 9 1/2 | © 2016
Architecture: Architecture--Criticism
Table of Contents
Terminology
The Urbanization of the Territory: On the Research Approach of ETH Studio Basel
Christian Schmid
Kindred Terms as a Working Basis
Marcel Meili
Places
Nile Valley, Territory and Stability
Mathias Gunz
Rome- Adriatic, Autonomy of the Hinterland
Christian Müller Inderbitzin
Central Florida, Urbanization as Suspension of Time and Space
Roger Diener
Red River Delta, Pulls on an Even Field
Vesna Jovanović
Muscat and Oman, Power Manifested in Territory
Liisa Gunnarsson, Mathias Gunz
Belo Horizonte, Red Soil
Vesna Jovanović
Sections
Water Management
Vesna Jovanović
Agriculture
Mathias Gunz
Industrial Production and Mining
Christian Müller Inderbitzin
Settlements
Vena Jovanović
Bibliography
Biographies
Credits
Imprint
The Urbanization of the Territory: On the Research Approach of ETH Studio Basel
Christian Schmid
Kindred Terms as a Working Basis
Marcel Meili
Places
Nile Valley, Territory and Stability
Mathias Gunz
Rome- Adriatic, Autonomy of the Hinterland
Christian Müller Inderbitzin
Central Florida, Urbanization as Suspension of Time and Space
Roger Diener
Red River Delta, Pulls on an Even Field
Vesna Jovanović
Muscat and Oman, Power Manifested in Territory
Liisa Gunnarsson, Mathias Gunz
Belo Horizonte, Red Soil
Vesna Jovanović
Sections
Water Management
Vesna Jovanović
Agriculture
Mathias Gunz
Industrial Production and Mining
Christian Müller Inderbitzin
Settlements
Vena Jovanović
Bibliography
Biographies
Credits
Imprint