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Aire: The River and Its Double
Contributor(s): Descombes, Georges (Editor), Descombes, Julien (Editor), Van Cauwenberghe, Corinne (Editor)

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ISBN: 3038600814     ISBN-13: 9783038600817
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
OUR PRICE: $52.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Landscape
- Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 7.2" W x 9.7" L (2.24 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
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South of Geneva, Switzerland, the Aire River runs across a plain that for centuries has been agricultural land. Since the late nineteenth century, the waterway has been embanked for flood protection, which has caused a gradual loss of habitat for a large variety of plants and animals. In 2001, a decision was made to renaturalize the river. Yet rather than merely reconstructing the river's former natural bed, Superpositions, the association of firms commissioned with the project, applied "topographic imagination," a method that combines the embanked channel with a newly designed pasture landscape.


This new book documents that renaturalization project through drawings, images of construction work, and images of the new waterway. Essays and commentary by international contributors Jean-Marc Besse, Lorette Coen, Gerorges Descombes, G. Mathias Kondolf, Elissa Rosenberg, Gilles A. Tiberghien, and Marc Treib demonstrate how the restored river has been transformed, becoming again a characteristic feature of this landscape on the fringe of the city.

 
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