Online-Publikation: März 2008 im Internet-Journal <<kultur-punkt.ch>>
Ereignis-, Ausstellungs-, AV- und Buchbesprechung
<< Thierstein, Alain; Förster, Agnes (Eds.) : The Image and the
Region - Making Mega-City Regions Visible! >>
2008, 288 p. 135 illus. in color., Softcover; ISBN:
978-3-03778-131-9; 31,99 €
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Inhalt
Discusses the lack of visualization of metropolitan regions.
For planners and decision makers in politics, business, and research
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Mega-city regions are currently a frequent topic of discussion.
Researchers are exploring the fundamentals for understanding the
role of metropolitan regions and their social, economic, and
cultural developments on a national and European basis.
The responsible decision makers in politics and business are calling
for new measures for greater urban areas. But that is just the start
of the problem: Europe seems to lack an awareness for metropolitan
regions. For the majority of politicians, planners, institutions,
and residents the features of mega-city regions remain invisible.
They are scarcely charted; there are no concepts for representing
them or any direct sensory understanding of them in everyday life.
The book is based on the understanding that the visual depiction of
mega-city regions is fundamental to identifying, acting, and
developing within existing concentrations of urban populations.
Through essays from various disciplines the book approaches the
phenomenon and discusses the necessity to visualize mega-city
regions.
Fazit
Gesamtkunstwerker, Umweltdesigner, Architekten,
Landschaftsarchitekten, Stadt- und Regionalplaner, Soziologen (Town
planners, students of architecture, planners, politicians,
sociologists) und darüber hinaus alle
Gesellschafts-Wissensdurstige... bekommen
eine innovativen Stoss: zusammengefasst gesagt - Alle Generalisten
und Fachleute, ausgenommen Fachblinde, haben ihre Freude, merken
auf, wenn sie die bildstimulierenden Gestaltungsstrategien,
polizentrischen urbanen Regionen, deren Identität und Entfaltung
gekonnt dargestellt erleben in dem bisher nur in Englisch
vorliegendem Buch "The Image and the Region - Making Mega-City
Regions Visible!" von Alain Thierstein und Agnes Förster.
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