Title & Author:

City shock / concept and editors, Winy Maas and Felix Madrazo ; with Pablo Roquero and Jeronimo Mejia.

Publication:

Rotterdam : The Why Factory : Nai010 Publishers, [2012]
New York, NY : Available North, South and Central America through Artbook / D.A.P.
©2012

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

Why Factory's Future Cities series ; sixth book

Notes:
Statement of responsibility taken from colophon.
"T?f The Why Factory"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
City Shock -- Shock design / Winy Maas -- Shock waves / Felix Madrazo -- 10 shocks: introduction / Felix Madrazo -- Labour strike revives industry -- Global flu boosts ego city dreams -- Sea level challenges geopolitics -- Milk crisis backfires on nature -- Corruption scandal fosters drug industry -- War strategies affect building codes -- Branding cities goes extreme -- Meteorite impact changes nothing -- Pension scheme boosts education -- Space lift triggers economic bubble -- Interviews: introduction / Felix Madrazo -- "Mostly about what is in our heads" / Robert Bood -- "Our society is totally closed" / Henk Ovink -- "Scenarios that politicians don't want to think through" / Albert van der Horst and Wouter Vermeulen -- "Catastrophe is being normalized" / Deyan Sudjic -- "When credit ceases to be the driver" / Ole Bouman.

Summary:

In a world where forecasting seems futile, where predictions are unreliable, and where even the most absurd scenarios are plausible, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision - but by fear. Fear of disaster, fear of change, fear of the unknown. Can we learn from 'fear'? Can we even use it as a guide for spatial planning? 'City Shock' explores ten innocent 'what ifs'. What kinds of radical trend breaks can we expect, and with what effects? Guided by fantasy rather than science, this book imagines how each of these scenarios could play out in the Dutch landscape between 2018 and 2047. In a narrative composed of (im)possible headlines, a chain of fictitious newspaper spreads reports these events, exposes their possible causes and depicts their potential consequences for Dutch spatial planning and lifestyle.

ISBN:

9789462080072 (paperback)
9462080070 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Netherlands.
Disasters.
Catastrophes.
disasters.
City planning
Netherlands

Form/genre:

Interviews.

Added entries:

Maas, Winy, 1959- editor.
Madrazo, Felix, 1972- editor.
Why Factory.
Future cities series ; 6.

Subtitle on cover: Planning the unexpected

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282537
Call No.: BIB 220171
Status: Available