English summary: Zurich is a city of activity, success, bustle, modernity - a city offering fun and action around the clock, often breathless, sometimes merciless. Monika Stocker shows that there is also a different side to it, there is silence, there are edges and there are places of strength. It is here that she finds special townspeople, from days gone by and she unearths their strengths and their energy. She converses with monuments, looks at what used to be and at what is happening today. She talks with the city angel ...
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English summary: Zurich is a city of activity, success, bustle, modernity - a city offering fun and action around the clock, often breathless, sometimes merciless. Monika Stocker shows that there is also a different side to it, there is silence, there are edges and there are places of strength. It is here that she finds special townspeople, from days gone by and she unearths their strengths and their energy. She converses with monuments, looks at what used to be and at what is happening today. She talks with the city angel who often rests on her terrace and has become familiar to her. Maybe there's a special system of coordinates that has spread out across our city - holding and healing it. This book invites us to perceive the meditative aspects of a modern big city, sometimes poetic, sometimes mischievous, and sometimes feisty. German description: Zurich ist die Stadt der Aktivitat, des Erfolgs, der Hektik, der Moderne - eine Stadt mit Spass und Action rund um die Uhr, oft atemlos, manchmal auch gnadenlos.Monika Stocker zeigt: Es gibt auch eine andere Seite, es gibt die Stille, die Rander, die kraftvollen Orte. Dort begegnet sie besonderen Stadtern, aus vergangenen Zeiten, ortet deren Krafte und Energien. Sie unterhalt sich mit Denkmalern, setzt sich auseinander mit dem, was war und heute geschieht. Sie fuhrt Gesprache mit dem Stadtengel, der sich ofters auf ihrer Terrasse ausruht und ihr vertraut wird. Vielleicht zieht sich ja ein besonderes Koordinatensystem durch unsere Stadt - eines, das zusammenhalt, das heilt. Das Buch ladt ein, die meditativen Seiten der modernen Grossstadt wahrzunehmen, mal poetisch, mal schelmisch, mal kampferisch.
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