Esefeld, Jorg u. Traub, Johannes. edition esefeld & traub – förlag

This book presents the oasis villages in northern Oman using photographs, technical drawings, and aerial photographs of an interdisciplinary project funded and carried out by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society / DFG). Today this fascinating cultural landscape, made possible by a complex irrigation system, is threatened with deterioration. In order to serve as the basis of future development of the country, the knowledge which was handed down and witnesses to the past should not be lost. Indeed, these oasis villages should be kept as significant cultural achievements. This book contributes to this endeavour.

MYNY is a collage. Photographic impressions by Werner Lorke of New York in the years 1984 until 2001 are set with biographical short stories, poems and drawings by people who lived and worked in this fascinating city. The observer and reader has his own New York in his head which is a combination of pictures from literature and media, personal and collective experiences, and an imaginative extrapolation which is so important for the vitality and optimism of the city on the Hudson River. "There are over 8 million stories in the Naked City". This collection tells a few of these. Features 43 texts, sketches and drawings by different authors (artists, musicians, architects, politicians and photographers).

This collection is the continuation of the series which began with MYNY in 2008. The series provides primers on life in international metropolitan centres. The volume focuses on 44 photographs taken by the Stuttgart architect and urban planner Joerg Esefeld between 1987 and 1988 and 53 photographs taken by the Moscow photographer and graphic artist, Sascho Neroslavsky, between 2003 to 2009. Joerg Esefeld captures scenes from the transitional period of Glasnost and Perestroilka. His photographs document solitary architectural structures in the urban fabric of the crumbling Soviet capital. Sascho Neroslaysky's photographs foreground the erosion of architectural scale. In his photographs, the large scale proclamations of the new consumerism have ousted the appeal of socialism. Here the traditional architecture is sometimes obscured beyond recognition. Inspired by the collection of photographs, a diverse set of authors have written personal stories from their everyday life experiences. They depict scenes which have left an impression on them and which manifest the uniqueness of life in Moscow. Features 59 texts, sketches and drawings by different authors (artists, musicians, architects, politicians and photographers).

Book & CD. Aleppo is not perceived outside the Arab world as a "metropolis" -- at the same limo, though, the city with a five thousand year old history is one of the world's oldest cities. In this way, MYAL (My Aleppo) is to be understood as a special study about the development of the term metropolis and asks the fundamental question how a "metropolis" should be defined. Today, the city of almost three million people is the industrial and commercial capital of Syria, where, in a fascinating way, tradition and modernity, and East and West meet. MYAL (My Aleppo) attempts not only to show the "sights" of Aleppo, but to show the "inner sights" from the life of the Aleppines: city structures as well as life and customs that have been developed over centuries and now are subject to a rapid process of transformation due to altered social, economic, and political conditions. These are more everyday images of local people and foreigners, visible and invisible, from the narrow quarters of the Old City and the Souk with its noisy intimacy, the view from the Citadel out across the city, and from submerging into the partially strange and hidden worlds of Aleppo and its inhabitants. At the heart of the book are photos from the period around 1900 taken, among others, from the archive of Poche-Marrache and the archive from Thierry, Grandin, as well as photographs of different photographers from more recent years. These images are supplemented by articles From different authors about daily life in Aleppo. During the production of this book, a mood of change manifested itself in Syrian society, the results of which are not yet foreseeable. So, the articles in this volume perhaps document something that will (or may) soon belong in part to the past. The CD with songs from Abed Azrié from Aleppo completes the triad of the city along with the articles and photographs.

Text in English, Japanese & German. This is the fourth volume in the series of town reading books to international cities. Basis of the project are black-and-white photographs from the archives of interior designer Martha Huber-Villiger from the years 1953 and 1954, and colour photographs of Naomi Hanakata from recent years. Martha Villiger accompanied Charlotte Perriand and her family in the 50s for a year in Tokyo, there to prepare the exhibition "La Synthèse des Arts". Naomi Hanakata Tokyo has visited and photographed again. At the moment she lives and works there as an architect. The photos show the architectural, social, economic and cultural changes of this fascinating city in the last almost 60 years after the Tokhoku earthquake and Fukushima. Very different authors have been inspired by the photos and personal stories written from everyday life experiences that have impressed them, and in which the city is in its particularity -- about life in Tokyo.

Using examples from all over the world, Klaus Humpert presents different types of human movement as well as the optimisation of walking trails, which can be read in visible traces through cities andcountrysides. These trails give information on the unconscious psychological rules for human movement in contrast to rational city planning. Thus, the authors thesis is also a plea for a strongly human-oriented landscape and city planning.