Urban Future. Manifestos

“Urban Future Manifestos” calls upon leading creative thinkers to address urgent questions about the future of the contemporary city. Contributing architects, artists, designers, and urban scholars consider the city from a variety of positions and posit their unique and inspiring visions.

“Urban Future Manifestos” was produced by the MAK Urban Future initiative, Los Angeles, which was founded to generate concepts for the urban future by stimulating international dialogue.

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010; Editor: Peter Noever, Kimberli Meyer;
ISBN 978-3-7757-2731-0

Manifestos by

Doung Anwar Jahangeer (Durban), Bernard Khoury (Beirut), Mehret Mandefro with Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (New York), Christian Reder (Vienna), James Turrell (Flagstaff/New York), Zvi Hecker (Berlin), Dana Cuff (Los Angeles), Gregor Eichinger (Vienna), Jonathan Tel (New York), Robert Ransick with Blake Goble (New York), Herbert Lachmayer (Vienna), Michael Sorkin (New York), Saskia Sassen (New York), Karl-Henrik Robèrt (Stockholm), Travis Price (Washington, D.C.), Edward Soja (Los Angeles), Norman M. Klein (Los Angeles), Gustaff Harriman Iskandar (Bandung), Edgar Pieterse (Cape Town), Tezozomuc (Los Angeles), Teddy Cruz (San Diego), AbdouMaliq Simone (London), Eyal Weizman (London), Nnamdi Elleh (Cincinati), Keller Easterling (New York), Beatriz Colomina (New York), Felicity D. Scott (New York), Rick Lowe with Miguel K. Garcia (Houston), ATOPIA (Jane Harrison and David Turnbull (New York), Ai Weiwei (Beijing), Leebbu Woods (New York), Marcos Novak (Los Angeles), Marco Kusumawaijaya (Jakarta), Urban Think Thank - Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner and Luis Efrén Santana (Caracas), Ismail Farouk (Johannesburg), Xiangning Li (Shanghai), Alexia Leon (Lima), Pages – Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai (Tehran), Allaa Khaled and Salwa Rashad (Alexandria)

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