Koolhaas pronounced urbanism dead in 1995. Since then, urban design has struggled to come to terms with this and other losses including environmental stability, af- fordable 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 Urban, ‚bargaining‘, ‚depressed‘ starchitects, through to an optimistic manifesto of ‚acceptance‘.
Über den Autor
Marcus White (Ph D) is an award-winning architect and urban designer, Professor of Urban Design at Swinburne University, and director of Harrison and White. Nano Langenheim is a horticulturist, arborist, lecturer in land- scape architecture and urban design at the University of Melbourne. Their research explores the integration of data, technology and cultural specificity to support design decision making for cities in transition.