Switzerland : An Urban Portrait

Book 1
Introduction Switzerland – Presented in Terms of Networks, Borders, and Differences
15 – Introduction
41 – Networks
49 – Borders
115 – Differences
135 – Conversation: Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili
163 – Theory: Christian Schmid
225 – Colophon
Book 2
Borders, Communes. A Brief History of the Territory
245 – Introduction
251 – Surfaces, Deposits: Seven Forms of a Divided Switzerland
285 – Border, Cell, Treaty: A Thesis on Autonomy
307 – Imprints: The Roman Border System as a Palimpsest in Medieval Space
321 – Germanic Land: The Reshaping of Roman Territory by Germanic Farmers
339 – Cooperatives, Communes: The Parallel Formation of the Confederation and the Commune
383 – Crystallization: The Consolidation of Form
431 – Autonomy and Difference: The Composed Territory
455 – Colophon
Book 3
Materials for an Urbanistic Project
479 – Introduction
487 – Metropolitan Regions
500 – Economic Growth and Economic Productivity
513 – Lake Geneva Metropolitan Region
561 – The Metropolitan Region Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg
605 – The Zurich Metropolitan Region
649 – Networks of Cities
671 – The Urban Ring of Bern
701 – Network of Cities, Central Switzerland
719 – The Urban Network of the Lakes
737 – The Quiet Zones
767 – The Western Quiet Zone: Gros-de-Vaud and Lower Alpine Area of Fribourg
797 – The Central Quiet Zone: The Napf
827 – The Eastern Quiet Zone: Appenzell – Toggenburg
865 – The Quiet Zones
899 – The Alps
919 – Is the Matterhorn City?
929 – Alpine Fallow Lands
945 – Safien Valley
961 – Wassen
979 – Calancatal/Val Calanca
1007 – Colophon
Switzerland’s Urban Potential: A Thesis Map