Overview
- Linz 2009 cultural capital of Austria – a city in a state of emergency strives to make a new mark
- Richly varied photo series on over more than 20 international cities
- With contributions by Shumon Basar, Bart Lootsma, Roemer van Toorn, Angelika Schnell and Klemens Gruber
- Linz Texas Exhibition: Architekturzentrum Wien 12 June – 8 September 2008, Stadtmuseum Graz 25 September– 2 November 2008
- Exhibition: Architekturforum, Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin, 3. December - 15. January 2009
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They see themselves as historic centres while simultaneously becoming secondary in the dynamics of regional urbanisation. They move between rural idylls and chronically overloaded junctions. They are innovative commercial locations and yet remain eternally the provinces. Are the middle-sized towns between all the cracks? Or is this position in-between an opportunity in itself because this kind of urban fabric has so much potential? Linz is a prototypical middle-sized town. Not only in terms of its size and geographic position, between the hotspots of Vienna and Salzburg, but also because of the widely strewn palette of attributes. And, in fact, in the recent past Linz has used this in-between position and developed a remarkable talent for reinventing itself. Linz is European Capital of Culture in 2009. This exceptional situation calls once more for a new pitch. Who can Linz learn from and what can others learn from Linz? What does Linz share with Madrid or Galati? Which of its attributes are shared with Moscow or Davos? An urban road movie - to the end of the world - is looking for the answer.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction a City Like Linz
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The Most Interesting City in Austria
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From Siderurgy to Semiurgy
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Accelerating Stifter Linz and its Landscape
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Linz Texas — Relations
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About the authors
Angelika Fitz is specialist on cultural studies and curator; she has been responsible for a number of exhibitions and publications on architecture, urbanism, art and Post-Colonialist topics. She was the commissioner of the Austrian contributions to the Sao Paolo architecture biennial and lectured both in Austria and abroad.
Martin Heller is the coordinator of Linz, Cultural Capital of Europe 2009. He is the director of the Zurich Museum of Design, Photography, Art, Media and Popular Culture. He served as the artistic director of the Swiss 2002 Expo Exhibit in 2002 and is the founder of Heller Enterprises Zurich.
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Book Title: Linz Texas
Book Subtitle: A City Relates
Editors: Angelika Fitz, Martin Heller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-78895-0
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 200
Topics: Architecture, general, Cities, Countries, Regions, Urbanism, Arts, Regional and Cultural Studies