Description
Most of our cities are shaped by a particular set of values that does not necessarily lead to high quality urban spaces, but instead to scary, ethically unacceptable and distorted forms. To prevent our cities from turning into monstrous “Ideal Cities”, all parties involved in shaping cities – developers, municipalities and planners – have to accept their interdependencies, and try to understand the different interests of each party while daring to navigate into unknown territory. Texts by Jason Lee, Doreen Jakob, Mammoth, Karl Johann Hakken, Maximilian Mendel, Yim Dongwoo, MVRDV, and many others. Interviews with Magriet Smit, Bjarke Ingels, Andre Kempe.
CONTENTS
- Luxury Space By Jason Lee
- The World According to Mr. Reds By Doreen Jakob
- The Shelter Category By Mammoth (Stephen Becker and Rob Holmes)
- How the City of Broad Shoulders Bought its Growth Spurt By Karl Johann Hakken
- Residential Developers and Investors in Central Europe: Boom and Bust By Maximilian Mendel
- Pyongyang in a New Era By Yim Dongwoo
- Casino City State By Rustam Mehta and Thomas Moran
- Solidere, Inc., or Downtown Beirut By Carol Moukheiber
- Real High – The Desire for the Real in Urban Real Estate By McLain Clutter
- Real Creativity: A Case for Ethical Freedom in Architecture By Randall Teal
- Life without Architects – Interview with Magriet Smit By Bernd Upmeyer
- The New York Value Exchange By Joyce Hwang
- Real Big – Interview with Bjarke Ingels By Beatriz Ramo
- Magic Realism – A New Skyline for Rome By Simone De Iacobis
- Business Park De Hoef Revisited 1998-2008 By Arjan Harbers (Topotronic)
- Brand New Landlords By Daan Roggeveen and Michiel Hulshof
- Living on the Edge By Bas Princen
- Why should a Developer read Aristotle By Marta Relats
- Unbuilt Rotterdam By ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles]
- Rotterdam is a Whore – Interview with Andre Kempe By Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer
- To Build or not to Build By MVRDV
144 pages, color & b&w ills / 20 x 27 cm / English
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