Marcus White & Nano Langenheim 
The Death of Urbanism 
Transitions through five stages of grief

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’.

Over de auteur

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.