Swim City

Megatrend: Swimming in Urban Waters

Liquid Public Spaces: Rivers as part of public space

With short literary prose texts about swimming in the rivers in Basel, Bern, Geneva and Zurich

Urban Swimming is trendy, and when it comes to swimming in rivers in urban space Swiss cities are international trailblazers and much admired models. Moreover, in metropolises such as London, New York and Berlin more and more people are demanding their right to the rivers, harbours and canals back and referencing the situation in Switzerland. In many cities here, rivers and their banks have gradually been tapped as public resources. People who refresh themselves during their midday break by jumping into the water or who use the drift of a river to swim their way to work are a fixed component of Swiss cities today.

Swim City renders the experience of swimming in Swiss rivers tangible and shows how it developed historically, what form it takes today and its relevance in creating cities that are worth living in.

Wie der Fluss von den Städtern - mal sportlich schwimmend, mal gemütlich treibend - alltäglich in Besitz genommen wird, unter welchen Voraussetzungen das urbane Schwimmen im Fluss möglich ist und wie die Städte dadurch ungemein an Attraktivität gewinnen - all das vermittelt der wunderbare Bildbandd Swim City. (Ulla Hanselmann, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 3.07.2019)

Dieses Buch ist eine Ode an das Schwimmen in der Stadt. (Schöner Wohnen, 1.09.2019)