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Between 2008 and 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of
Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, has been investigating theprocess of
urbanisation taking place outside cities. Territory - in the
context of this investigation denotes both: the surroundings that a
city subsumes into its own structure and the core city itself,
which is the centre of this process of urbanisation, or
"confiscation". Investigated were six regions on six continents:
The Nile Valley with the dense corset of natural landscape
surrounding a linear city; Rome-Adria, where territorial cells have
formed within the territory, spawning an urban type of tremendous
dynamism; Florida, presenting highly complex patterns of
territorial organisation; Vietnam's Red River Delta, where recent
reform exposed traditional settlement and cultivation of the delta
to freer forces; Oman, where urbanisation of a territory
essentially means reclaiming the desert with the immediate
necessity to develop a system for water distribution; and Belo
Horizonte, where natural conditions likewise play a major role in
organising the territory as surface mining entails huge
transformations of the natural terrain.The new book features two
introductory essays on ETH Studio Basel's research approach and on
terminology, concise illustrated reports on the six regions, and
four concluding topical essays.
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