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Twitter Usage in Basel

May 2, 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus
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Basel, the city at the 'Rheinknie', marks the northern gateway to Switzerland. The 'Dreiländereck' (three country corner) is an important fix point in the port of Basel, where the borderlines of France, Germany and Switzerland touch. The resulting 'trinational' region with Basel as the largest hub has established its own culture and... [read more]

Disjointed Development Patterns

April 17, 2011 by Robert Kwolek
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On a recent trip to Zug here in Switzerland, it was clear that the town had grown relatively little over the past few hundred years. Until after the war that is. The compact Altstadt (old town), full of 400 year old homes clustered around the lake, is surrounded by postwar apartment buildings and homes climbing up the hills. A large... [read more]

Enzo Enea’s Tree Museum

July 7, 2010 by The Dirt ASLA
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Enzo Enea, a well-known Swiss landscape architect, will open the Tree Museum on the shore of Lake Zurich, in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland. The New York Times writes that the museum is a “meticulously curated outdoor display” set on 2.5 acres. Visitors will be able to see more than 20 varities of trees framed by... [read more]

Melting Glaciers Releasing Trapped Pollutants

December 4, 2009 by Ceri Margerison
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New research shows that concentrations of pollutants in the environment and atmosphere may increase with global warming, as melting glaciers release pollutants which became trapped in their ice at the end of the twentieth century. A team of researchers working in Switzerland has found that the concentration of pollutants, including DDT... [read more]

Geneva’s pedestrian historic district

July 1, 2009 by Neil Takemoto
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Geneva, Switzerland, central to United Nations relations (ie known as the ‘Peace Capital’, site of the Geneva Convention) ranked in a 2009 survey by Mercer as having the third-highest quality of life in the world, and referred to as the world’s most compact metropolis, which essentially means one of the most pedestrian-oriented. It... [read more]

Alpine Adaptive Re-Use of Alpine Hut near Gstaad, Switzerland

April 20, 2009 by Jared Volpe
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If you have ever driven the roads carving through the beautiful state of Vermont, you have a sense of the quintessential mountain scene complete with fall foliage, sprawling views, and of course, a scattering of barns, sheds, and maple syrup shacks in that rustic state vernacular. But I bet you never thought that one of those rickety... [read more]