ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a landscape report was developed for a small triangulated plot of land called Platzspitz, which is situated at the confluence of the rivers Sihl and Limmat in the center of Zurich, Switzerland. The landscape report focuses on the park’s condition and character during the 1970s and, in particular, the late 1970s. Its ultimate goal is to picture the park as it may have looked in the 1970s—to imagine the condition of the park’s landscape, its trees, bushes, soil and ground cover, its walkways, benches and lamp posts, its erosion and levels of maintenance, circa 1977. During the 1970s the maintenance of Platzspitz was more concerned with the continual removal of rubbish and debris left by the various groups of people who used the park. Today, the new Platzspitz is one of sweeping vistas and long shots, both from within the triangular patch of land, and from the Landesmuseum.
