La Suisse Portrait urbain

Diener, Roger; Herzog, Jacques; Meili, Marcel; Meuron, Pierre de; Schmid, Christian

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“…For instance, the large-scale research project Switzerland, an urban portrait (Diener, Herzog, Meili, de Meuron, & Schmid, 2005) clearly takes issue with, and distances itself from, a global and fine-grained attention to the diffuse horizontalities of the country's territory. Instead, in the name of the "wealth of the whole organism," it expresses a preference for selecting, differentiating and hierarchizing its different parts with a view to its future development.…”

Section: The Emergence Of "Metropolization"-related Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instead, in the name of the "wealth of the whole organism," it expresses a preference for selecting, differentiating and hierarchizing its different parts with a view to its future development. It argues in favor of rearranging the country's political geography through five clearly distinct urbanization types-metropolitan regions, city networks, quiet zones, alpine resorts and alpine fallow lands-in the interest of "strengthening and completing processes already underway" (Diener et al, 2005). In this perception of the country, metropolitan areas-while widely supported by the recreational and rural territoriesrepresent the very core of the interpretation, while the fallow lands remain as an un-integrated "void" at the periphery-both figuratively and literally-of "urban" Switzerland, thought to be functionally necessary but in fact performing no synergetic function within a larger whole.…”

Section: The Emergence Of "Metropolization"-related Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a “Horizontal Metropolis”

Viganò

Arnsperger

Lanza

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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 territory-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 Großstadt," a "Ville-Territoire" or, more recently, "Stadtland Schweiz." The country as a whole is still characterized by extended and layered conditions of inhabitability, where the dispersion of the urban fabric, enmeshed within the agricultural and forested landscape, is articulated through horizontal rather that vertical relationships. This paper offers a novel reflection on how the ongoing metropolization process could be seen as a positive force if a markedly different idea of metropolitan space is introduced-the "Horizontal Metropolis." Its key idea is to distribute and enlarge the benefits which metropolization, if conducted in line with the tradition of decentralization and horizontality, could bring to the Swiss territory and its population. The "Horizontal Metropolis" concept recovers and leverages the various forms of inhabitability and their relation with the infrastructural support. It considers the long-term construction of the Swiss "City-Territory" as a renewable resource, which means reflecting on new life cycles, capitalizing on the urban and territorial embodied energy, and therefore rethinking, without denying it, Switzerland's extensive and diffused fixed capital. This could be a precious resource to accommodate future urban growth and reorient the form it takes, keeping at bay indiscriminate sprawl as well as its currently predominant ideological counterpart, indiscriminate densification and polarization.

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Section: The Emergence Of "Metropolization"-related Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Emergence Of "Metropolization"-related Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a “Horizontal Metropolis”

Viganò

Arnsperger

Lanza

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“…As other scholars have already highlighted (Dematteis, 1975;Gaido 1999;Perlik and Bätzing, 1999;Perlik, Messerli and Bätzing, 2001;Bätzing, 2005;Dematteis, 2009;Diener et al 2005), this pressure produces an extended metropolitan dimension, from the lowlands up to the mountain, albeit with a density that is not structurally constant and with different modalities.…”

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Mountain Condominiums. A Discussing of Settlement and Dwelling on the Outskirts of an Alpine City

Mattiucci¹

2015

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“…-En segundo lugar, porque el semicantón de Basilea, que ejerce el efecto polarizador sobre el conjunto trinacional (Diener et al, 2006), no sólo se inserta en un área fronteriza, sino además condicionada por el relieve y con una extensión de apenas 37km2. Es además independiente del cantón de Basilea-Campiña, hecho que suma una frontera interna más a las ya mencionadas.…”

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Sistemas urbanos de frontera en contexto de permeabilidad. Roles, prácticas espaciales transfronterizas y cambio urbano en casos del área metropolitana de Basilea

Marín¹

2018

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Los sistemas urbanos que convergen en el frente norte de Basilea (Weil am Rhein, Saint-Louis y Huningue) comparten con aquella y entre sí relativa continuidad espacial y dinámicas funcionales, a pesar de pertenecer a países distintos. La tendencia hacia una mayor permeabilidad fronteriza derivada de su contexto posibilita nuevas formas de cooperación entre estas áreas vecinas, que adquieren nuevos roles como soporte y como escenario clave en la activación de operaciones que encuentran continuidad a uno y otro lado de la frontera.El presente trabajo profundiza en esta cuestión a través del estudio de casos en las ciudades mencionadas. Tras una introducción que permite exponer la singularidad y el papel del sistema urbano de frontera en un marco de creciente permeabilidad, y presentar el contexto del área objeto de análisis, se evalúan prácticas espaciales transfronterizas en el periodo 1985-2010, haciendo especial hincapié en el caso de Basilea. El estudio permite atisbar la capacidad de esta última para construir estrategias que posibilitan armonizar procesos transfronterizos y proyectos locales, a la par que ratifica la importancia de las ciudades, en tanto que ámbitos de relación, para impulsar la imbricación espacial entre áreas vecinas separadas por fronteras.AbstractThe urban systems that converge in the northern border of Basel (Weil am Rhein, Saint-Louis and Huningue) share certain spatial continuity and functional dynamics with the former, despite being located in different countries. The tendency towards an increasing border permeability derived from their context is opening new possibilities for cooperation among these areas, which acquire new roles as a basis and as a key arena for operations that find continuity across the border. Our research delves into these issues through the analysis of specific cases in the above-mentioned areas. It starts with an introduction where both the singularity and the functions of border urban systems in a background of growing permeability are exposed, and where the context of the case under analysis is defined. Then, cross-border spatial practices in the period 1985-2010 are studied. Particular emphasis is placed on the case of Basel. The study reveals the capacity of this latter to build strategies that make it possible to harmonize cross-border processes and local projects. It also confirms the importance of urban systems, as areas of relationship, to promote spatial imbrication between neighbouring areas.

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La Suisse Portrait urbain

Cited by 12 publications

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Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a “Horizontal Metropolis”

Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a “Horizontal Metropolis”

Mountain Condominiums. A Discussing of Settlement and Dwelling on the Outskirts of an Alpine City

Sistemas urbanos de frontera en contexto de permeabilidad. Roles, prácticas espaciales transfronterizas y cambio urbano en casos del área metropolitana de Basilea

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