Koolhaas pronounced urbanism dead in 1995. Since then urban design has struggled to come to
terms with this and other losses including environmental stability affordable 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 urbanist 'bargaining' 'depressed' starchitects through to an optimistic
manifesto of 'acceptance'.Marcus White (PhD) is an award-winning architect and urban designer
Professor of Urban Design at Swinburne University of Technology and director of Harrison and
White. Nano Langenheim is a landscape architect horticulturist arborist and lecturer in
landscape architecture and urban design at the University of Melbourne. Their research explores
the integration of data emerging technology and cultural specificity to support design
decision making for cities in transition.
