You Are the City - Observation, Organization, and Transformation of Urban Settings

YOU ARE THE CITY is an interactive mapping tool that creates a framework for understanding the continually changing configuration of the city. As we engage with cities, we create places through which we perceive and construct our own city.

This publication allows one to superimpose various realities in diagrammatic layers to build new urban connections. It consists of 22 transparent sheets that are divided into four categories. One moves through the book in exactly the same way one gets into any city: with no specific order. You can arrive by a main street or a secondary road, you may fly in a plane, drive a car or be in a ship, you can move by walking or use public transportation: the perception of the urban framework is always different, but the whole may be always the same.

There are as many interpretations of cities as there are people. It is therefore our participation and engagement that form places in cities. You are the city-the city is you!

Publication
Lars Mueller Publishers
ISBN 978-3-03778-159-3
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