The Landscape of the Zwischenstadt

Abstract

The chapter provides an introductory overview of Thomas Sieverts’ book Zwischenstadt (literally: ‘in between city’), briefly chronicling its impact and outlining its criticism. The guiding thesis is that, for Sieverts, landscape is the key to perceiving and designing sprawling urban regions. Sieverts entrusts landscape with the task of bearing the identity of and linking together the fragmented and agglomerated parts of the urban region.

Published in

Springer international handbooks of human geography
2025, pages: 959–967
Title: Landscape Handbook : German Language Research Perspectives
Publisher: Springer Cham

SLU Authors

• Vicenzotti, Vera

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography
Landscape Architecture

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83147-8_85
• ISBN: 978-3-031-83146-1
• eISBN: 978-3-031-83147-8

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/146512