Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a "Horizontal Metropolis"

Abstract: In light of the rapid population growth forecast for the coming years and the powerful transformations already occurring throughout its whole territory, today’s Switzerland stands in urgent need of critical reflection on its urban future. A novel set of concepts and actions is needed in order to produce new visions and operational tools capable of critically reconsidering mainstream debates about Switzerland’s future urban growth. On the one hand, national policies and narratives tend de facto towards lending increasing support to a dynamic of “metropolization,” which usually leads to stronger territorial hierarchization strategies and processes aiming at a spatial condensation of urban services and functions in specific, selected locations. On the other hand, however, the Swiss territor - with its deep rootedness in federalism and its unique aggregative structure - still embodies key features of what, at different times, has been named a single "Grande Ville," a "dezentralisierte

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Urban Planning ; 2 (2017) 1 ; 88-99

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2017
• Urheber: Viganò, Paola ; Cavalieri, Chiara ; Barcelloni Corte, Martina ; Arnsperger, Christian ; Lanza, Elena Cogato

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.17645/up.v2i1.871
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019051712362218770223
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 25.03.2025, 13:44 MEZ