Olejar Books

The financial, economic, and scientific capital of Zurich is internationally recognized for its pathbreaking approach to town planning. With examples from the last ten years, Building Zurich shows how conceptual urbanism works in that city and presents the factors that make for its success. Occupying center stage are the procedures that build trust and bring together the disparate interests of politicians and administration, investors, landowners, and architects. The ideas are illustrated with numerous plans, photographs, and reproductions, while commentaries, analyses, and interviews and conversations with the participants provide an inside look at the tools and working methods of Zurich town planning. By a team of editors and authors consisting of Franz Eberhard and Regula L�scher Gm�r as representatives of the Department of Town Planning and Professors Angelus Eisinger and Iris Reuther as outside experts.