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South of Geneva, Switzerland, the Aire River runs across a plain that for centuries has been agricultural land. Since the late nineteenth century, the waterway has been embanked for flood protection, which has caused a gradual loss of habitat for a large variety of plants and animals. In 2001, a decision was made to renaturalize the river. Yet rather than merely reconstructing the river’s former natural bed, Superpositions, the association of firms commissioned with the project, applied “topographic imagination,” a method that combines the embanked channel with a newly designed pasture landscape. This new book documents that renaturalization project through drawings, images of construction work, and images of the new waterway. Essays and commentary by international contributors Jean-Marc Besse, Lorette Coen, Gerorges Descombes, G. Mathias Kondolf, Elissa Rosenberg, Gilles A. Tiberghien, and Marc Treib demonstrate how the restored river has been transformed, becoming again a characteristic feature of this landscape on the fringe of the city.  

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Georges Descombes is an architect and landscape designer, and a professor of architecture at University of Geneva. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Amsterdam's Berlage Institut, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and at University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Julien Descombes is an architect and landscape designer and co-founder of Atelier Descombes Rampini in Geneva. Corinne Van Cauwenberghe is a civil engineer and a director with B+C Engineers in Geneva. Vincent Correnti is a civil engineer and head of underground and road construction with ZS Ingenieurs civils in Geneva. Francois Gerber works as an environmental engineer with BIOTEC Biologie appliquee in Delemont, Switzerland.

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