Franz Oswald Books

The town is an organism created and driven by people. The complexity of the problems arising from it poses a challenge to those in positions of responsibility. Oswald and Baccini seek to bring clarity to the web of urban phenomena. They present a highly original model which draws together the two separate fields of architecture and science by considering architecture and urban planning from the scientific perspective. In four main chapters, topics such as new urbanism, the net city, designing with the net-city method, sustainability, renovation, conversion, and responsibility are explored in detail. The examples presented all derive from Switzerland, but the analyses and methodology is valid for any region or country. The theory is complemented by attractive visual material. Franz Oswald is Professor of Architecture and Design, Peter Baccini is Professor of Resource and Waste Management (both at Zurich ETH).

The book explores the concept of European security autonomy, suggesting it will foster a more balanced partnership with the U.S., despite America's military dominance. As U.S. leaders hint at reducing their protective role, Europe is expected to increasingly address its own security challenges. Understanding this shift is crucial for American foreign policy, which must acknowledge Europe as a vital strategic player equipped with its own crisis management capabilities.

The Party of Democratic Socialism is wrongly stigmatized as polarizing German politics on the left. In fact, Oswald argues, the PDS is East Germany's contribution to the regionalized pluralism of united Germany's party system. Although initially marginalized as the successor of East Germany's SED, the PDS legitimized itself by combining eastern regionalism, a left-socialist identity, and political ambition. The PDS has become an acceptable partner in center-left parties in eastern state governments, in stark contrast to its continuing irrelevance in West Germany. While its earlier exclusion was justified by portraying the PDS as crypto-communist, the integration strategies of the late 1990s were supported by modernization theorists recognizing the party's contribution to the integration of post-unification Germany.An executive summary of the first decade of post-unification German politics, Oswald's book offers a precise interpretation of the learning processes within the PDS. It also provides a close analysis of the disputes within the PDS characterizing the party as a political subculture in which East Germans could come to terms with the ruptures of their history and their biographies while at the same time finding a role in the politics and society of united Germany.

Die 'Neue Urbanität' – das Verschmelzen von Stadt und Landschaft – ist ein sich seit den 1950er Jahren rasch und global verbreitendes Phänomen. Die Essays unterschiedlicher Disziplinen plädieren für eine offene, in die Zukunft gerichtete Diskussion und liefern theoretische Hintergründe zum Paradigmenwechsel in Städtebau und Planung.

This study evaluates the reception of Martin Walser's novels by critics and reviewers between 1957 and 1978 in West Germany, East Germany, Britain and the USA. It demonstrates the connection between the aesthetic responses and the political positions of the critics. The novel Jenseits der Liebe is identified as both a turning point in Walser's development and as a case of inconsistent reception by critics. Walser's treatment of the political psychology of the salaried employee with its deep loyalty conflicts disturbed the critics more profoundly than the identity problems of his earlier and later heroes.

Stichwort Niederösterreich - Ein Blau-Gelber Almanach in Wort und Bild - bk1081; Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus; F. Oswald & H. Waldhauser; pocket_book; 1988