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ISBN: 9783887785635
Published: February 17, 2020
Publisher: Spurbuchverlag
Trim: 4.72 x 6.49 Inches
Pages: 240
The Death of Urbanism
Transitions through five stages of grief
Marcus White, Nano Langenheim
By Marcus White and Nano Langenheim
Theory of Practice I Practice of Theory
About the Book
Koolhaas pronounced urbanism dead in 1995. Since then, urban design has struggled to come to terms with this and other losses including environmental stability, affordable housing, design control, and urban amenity.
This book explores urban design paradigms transitioning through a misappropriation of Kübler-Ross’ “five stages of grief” – from pro-sprawl ‘denial’, NIMBY ‘anger’, revisionist new urbanist ‘bargaining’, ‘depressed’ starchitects, through to an optimistic manifesto of ‘acceptance’.