Zwischenstadt

Zwischenstadt is a term used in urban geography and was largely coined by the German architect Thomas Sieverts .

features

The term describes a settlement structure that cannot be assigned to either the city or the rural area . The classification as a suburb does not adequately reflect the character of these areas. A typical example of inter-city structures according to Sievert is the Frankfurt Rhine-Main conurbation .

The Zwischenstadt has more independence than the suburb and can make itself independent of the core city . It is not precisely established where the definition limits of the Zwischenstadt are. It usually has no historical settlement core and was created in a short time. The orientation and development of the Zwischenstadt is also relatively aimless and haphazard. The result is urbanization and urban sprawl in rural areas. In order to be able to examine the effects and necessary steps, a research college was set up under the direction of Thomas Sieverts.

See also

• Suburbanization
• Satellite city

literature

• Thomas Sieverts, Michael Koch, Ursula Stein, Michael Steinbusch: Zwischenstadt - meanwhile a city? Discover, understand, change , Wuppertal: Müller and Busmann 2005. ISBN 3-928766-72-4
• Lars Bölling, Thomas Sieverts (ed.): Mitten am Rand. On the way from the suburbs via the Zwischenstadt to the regional urban landscape , Wuppertal: Müller and Busmann 2004. ISBN 3-928766-59-7
• Thomas Sieverts: "Urbanity and Zwischenstadt", in: Research Group Bodenseestadt (Ed.): Vision Bodenseestadt. Urban development research between utopia and feasibility study , Weimar: VDG 2003, pp. 138–149. ISBN 3-89739-355-7 .
• “Zwischenstadt, zum Stand der Dinge”, in: Archithese , special issue, Nov. 2000, pp. 6–11.
• Thomas Sieverts: “The urbanized landscape - the landscaped city. On a new relationship between city and nature ”, in: Wolkenkuckucksheim , issue 2/2000.
• Thomas Sieverts: Zwischenstadt. Between place and world, space and time, city and country , Braunschweig: Vieweg 1997 ISBN 3-528-06118-9

Web links

• Klaus Schäfer: The dignity of the profane. A survey of everyday urban life. (PDF; 7.3 MB), Institut der Stadtbaukunst , School of Architecture Bremen (PDF file; 6.9 MB) 2007
• Thomas Sieverts: The urbanized landscape - the landscaped city. To a new relationship between city and nature. Wolkenkuckucksheim 4th year, issue 2/2000
• Thomas Sieverts: Neither city nor country. Goethe-Institut 2006 ( Memento from August 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zwischenstadt elsewhere ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Research report 2000–2003, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
2. ^ Adelheid von Saldern : City and communication in times of upheaval in the Federal Republic of Germany . Steiner Verlag, 2006, p. 152