Department / Institute : Institut d'études urbaines et paysagères (LUS)
The Inevitable Specificity of Cities
Urban areas, despite facing strong forces of homogenization on a global scale, tend to produce and reproduce their own specificity, their own structures and patterns that are evolving through the uneven process of urbanization. With this book ETH Studio Basel documents its long-standing research on cities and urban regions, Plus
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2015
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2015
Constructed Land: Singapore 1924-2012
The project Constructed Land: Singapore 1924–2012 investigates the material flows of soil and the changing physical form of the island of Singapore over time. Until today, around one quarter of the land area has been added to the surface of the island-state by means of importing sand, claiming Plus
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2014
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2014
Hinterland: Singapore, Johor, Riau
Throughout history, cities have functioned as centres of political and economic power, from which the agricultural and resource-rich hinterlands were controlled. From the nineteenth century onward, new technologies, transportation modes and the opening of trade have introduced a remarkable complexity to the relationship between cities and territories. Today, it Plus
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2013
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2013
Belgrade – Formal/Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation
Belgrade: Formal Informal presents the findings of ETH Studio Basel’s research in the former Yugoslav and now Serbian capital, investigating the city’s development following the international embargo against the Milosevic regime in the early 1990s until the present day. Through the prism of complementary notions, formal and informal, Plus