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      • Küchen Werkzeug / Kitchen Tools
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      • Windfall Light
      • A5/02 Philips-Twen
      • A5/03 Celestino Piatti and dtv
      • Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present
      • Dan Graham's New Jersey
      • Swarm
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      • Hannes Wettstein Seeking Archetypes
      • Distance and Engagement
      • Blindhædir
      • Silvia Bächli - das
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      • Katharina Grosse. Wish I Had a Big Studio in the Center of the City
      • Lidschlag
      • Waters in Between
      • Designing Programmes
      • Nature Design
      • Super Normal
      • Five North American Architects
      • A5/05 Lufthansa and Graphic Design
      • Tree Nurseries
      • Louia Kahn; Drawing to Find Out
      • Hamsun, Holl, Hamarøy
      • Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan and Alessandro Poli
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      • You Are the City
      • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007
      • Poemotion
      • Poster Collection 20 Help!
      • Unimark International
      • Corporate Diversity
      • Designing Universal Knowledge
      • Die gute Form
      • Transfer
      • Josef Müller-Brockmann
      • Poster Collection 3 Posters for Exhibitions 1980 - 2000
      • Scents of the City
      • Helvetica
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      • Findings on Ice
      • Helvetica Forever
      • Everything but the Walls
      • 8vo
      • Das Gesetz und seine visuellen Folgen
      • Insular Insight
      • Gigon / Guyer Architects
      • Steven Holl - Scale
      • Landform Building
      • Poster Collection 21 Paradise Switzerland
      • What You See
      • The Face of Human Rights
      • Who Owns the Water?
      • Reset - Beyond Fukushima

      Petra Kempf

      You Are the City
      Observation, Organization and Transformation of Urban Settings

      Design: Integral Lars Müller
      2009 | English | 21 x 29.7 cm | brochure with 16 pages and 22 transparent slides in folder
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Cities are hybrid entities based on multilayered and sometimes contradictory organizing principles. As complex networks of geographic, economic, political and cultural segments, they are caught up in a constant process of differentiation. How are we to understand such dynamic processes, especially the complex connections between individuals, whose movements and interactions leave traces in the urban landscape?
This publication offers architects, urban planners and general readers interested in city design and growth a novel approach, a mapping tool that creates a framework for understanding the continually changing configuration of the city. With transparent slides, the tool allows one to superimpose various realities like layers and build new urban connections. It invites readers in short to immerse themselves in the complexity of our cities.

都市とは重層的に配置され、ときに矛盾した編成要因をもつ混成の存在である。地理的・環境的・政治的・文化的区分という複雑なネットワークとして、それらは分化の一定したプロセスに巻き込まれる。こうしたダイナミックなプロセス、特に都市景観の影響から離れたムーブメントや相互作用をもつ個人間の複雑な結びつきをどのように理解するのか?
本書は、建築家、都市プランナー、または都市デザイン/開発に関心のある一般読者へ向け、絶えず変化してゆく都市形状を理解する為のフレームワーク創造のマッピングツールを提案する。透明なスライドを用いて、地層のように様々な要素を重ねてみることで新たな都市のつながりを組み立てることができる。
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