THE CITY IN THE CITY – BERLIN: A GREEN ARCHIPELAGO

In the manifesto The City in the City – Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. But it was not until the beginning of the 1990s when the manifesto really began to exert an effect as the focus of the urban planning discourse turned to the examination of crises, recessions, and the phenomenon of demographic shrinking. This critical edition contains a reproduction of the Ungers-manifesto and a previously unpublished version by Rem Koolhaas, as well as interviews with (co-)authors Rem Koolhaas, Peter Riemann, Hans Kollhoff, and Arthur Ovaska.

Introductory texts explain the development of the manifesto between Cornell and Berlin, position the work in the planning history of Berlin, and reveal its influence on current approaches.

Berlin.- A Green Archipelago.
Edited by Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Marot.
Critical Edition, Original 1977.

Size.- 21 × 29.7 cm, 8 ¼ × 11 ¾ in.
Pages.- 176 pages, 226 illustrations.
Cover.- hardcover (2013)

ISBN 978-3-03778-326-9, English, EUR 40.00 / USD 48.00 / GBP 35.00
ISBN 978-3-03778-329-0, French, EUR 40.00 / USD 50.00 / GBP 35.00
ISBN 978-3-03778-325-2, German, EUR 40.00 / USD 50.00 / GBP 35.00