Uploaded on 2017-06-19 by Shintaro Miyazaki

The most important stocks and flows entering, staying in and leaving Basel (Switzerland) are in my opinion fair (Art Basel, Basel World) tourists, commuters and goods. Stocks for fair visitors are hotels, fair halls, gestornomical locations and the flows relating to public transportation, the streets and traffic and mainly the vistors each a 100 thousand for 4 days in March and June. Currently about 120 thousand workers commute into Basel and almost 24% of the workforces are coming from Germany or France. This needs an increased flow and density at the border crossings. Additionally around 500 thousand persons are visiting the tax offices at the border crossings in order to get tax reductions. Another important field of stocks and flows is the flow of goods and things from north europe to south europe, where Basel is an important point for logistics. Due to its geography (the rhein and its position north of the alps) its builds a key station of flows between Germany and Italy for example. Here ports (air, water) and warehouses (land) are important stocks and again the streets and train networks important passages of flow. An optimization of the value-added-tax freeing procedure (at the moment you go to the shop in Germany get a form. Then you go to the tax office at the border and get a stamp. Then you go back to the shop and get the tax back) by getting rid of the "stock" at the border while at the same time increasing the number of border crossings would possibly reduced the "Elephant flows" and congestions at the borders and its connecting streets. Changing the sources of food supply from global to more local sources would change their networks profoundly. Warehouses and stocks in neighborhoods would store more local goods and thus reduce traffic flow. Alternative living needs an increased awareness of the complex global material flows we are embedded in. A local co-housing project would also imply that local building materials will be used.