MONU 13 MOST VALUABLE URBANISM

Description

Issue 13 of this bi-annual forum on urbanism gathers the visions of architects, writers, artists and designers on a general theme of cities’ livability. The phenomenon of city branding on T-shirts and exposés of quality-of-life indexes are joined by such outbursts as ‘The Value of Ugliness’ by Jürgen Krusche and ‘Vancouverism Is Everywhere’ by DoUC. MONU’s blend of radical passion and expert design has made the magazine itself the focus of several international exhibitions, including in Los Angeles, Madrid and Tokyo.

CONTENTS

• Most T-shirtable Cities By Mika Savela
• Evaluation City – Post Industrial’s Most Valuable Urbanism By Melissa Dittmer and Amy Bos
• Within a Day By Bobby Shen
• Urban Perception of Happiness By Luciano Alfaya and Patricia Muñiz
• The Urban Rhythm By Karin Aue and Jeffrey Koh
• Tales of Nail Houses By Human Wu
• Wonder Full By Bas van der Horst, Hans Larsson, and Michiel van Loon
• The Crumbles of the Cake – Interview with Ruraigh Purcell By Bernd Upmeyer
• The Systematic Thinking Livability Rankings Imply By Klaas Kresse
• Is Livability Overrated? Notes on a Transactional Urbanism By Matthew Johnson
• Berlin Tempelhofer Feld – A Field for the Public By Hans Frei
• L.A.’s Optimistic Urbanism By John Southern
• The Value of Ugliness By Jürgen Krusche
• The Strategic City By Jennifer W. Leung
• Climbing up the Rank Ladder By Karl Beelen, Roos Gerritsen, and A. Srivathsan
• Vancouverism is Everywhere By DoUC (Brendan Cormier and Christopher Pandolfi)
• Vienna: Slow capital? By Stefan Gruber

144 pages / 20 x 27 cm / English