Our society seems to be locked into a position in which the user’s and voter’s choices determine how we shall live in the future. A disturbing collective urban life in a giant Big Brother House looms, a material and social world in which sensationalistic media and its commercial translation dominate. Our sense of what is real and what is quality is on the verge of collapse. The practice and education of the engineers of this society is determined by short-term effect instead of long-term social responsibility. Culture becomes little more than a market, politics its façade and the city its stage. Instead of reviving old school high modernist social engineering or claiming the need for an intellectual junta, we solicit new forms of social engineering. Where shall this lead?
Manifesto or City Interview with Pier Vittorio Aureli
Aureli, Pier Vittorio
90
Free Urbanism
Heester, Jeroen
96
Slums and Slabs
Wassenaar, Steven
108
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Urban-Think Tank
116
A Retroactive Lens on the Bijlmermeer
Vanstiphout, Wouter
122
Smart Governance
Gerritsen, Erik and Jeroen de Lange
126
Who’s in Control?
Oosterman, Arjen
128
How Sim City Changed the Game of Planning
Gardner, Edwin
130
A New Arena for Collective Activism
Hight, Jeremy
136
Social Engineering in the Amsterdam Metropolis
Office for Social Engineering
154
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Dool, Joos van den
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