Wether swaths are quasi wounds in natural growth or serve for flight, attack respectively rescue of people is a matter of opinion in each case. They respectively disclose the dilemma of humans as it is the outcome of his existence, like it is narrated in 2th Moses14 reports from the children of Israel's walk through the Red Sea.

In above mentioned context the EINSTELLUNGSRAUM turns its focus to the STREET which thus can be viewed as SWATH that has walled borders respectively borders next to the autobahn that have been pushed back far into the land.

But swaths are not only results of human interference with nature with this metaphor is described also destruction in cities triggered by natural forces and by political initiatives. Because of the rebuilding of Paris George Eugène Haussmann thus had swaths been cut into the historical city in order to construct boulevards and avenues with magnificent public appartments, department stores and public buildings. This creation went back to fortresses (type: Sternschanze in Hamburg) and baroque casle complexes with trees bordering the sight-axis. Last but not least does the star-shaped construction  of the boulevards exist thanks to deploy artillery against insurgents.

Here the history of urbanisation touches the history of wars because wealth and power of the cities produced greedinesses and the cities themselves were centres of social fights. The German term 'Bresche' (English: breach) stands for broken walls  and goes back to the denomination for the hole that was cut through fortification walls by artillery projectiles.

On the other hand the area-covering bomb attacks on citites trifle the term 'swath' but favour the construction of wide traffic routes in many large cities where with false pretence of war damage a significant number of still intact houses were knocked down.
Without destruction there seems to be no construction.

Are the view-axles of a park that aestheticizes a landscape to be regarded as a swath?


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