About the City— Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas is one of the great contemporary thinkers and polemicists on the city. Since publishing his seminal text "Delirious New York" in 1978, the Dutch architect has become one of the most prominent voices in the discussion surrounding the contemporary city. His contributions have focused on the study of specific cities or urban conditions (in addition to New York, Atlanta, Singapore, Lagos, etc.). This volume, however, compiles four intermediate texts that appeared sporadically — "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?", "Bigness, or the Problem of Large," "The Generic City," and "Junkspace" — which, without focusing on any particular city, offer Koolhaas's general vision on the death of modern urbanism and the birth of a new urbanism without theory or architects.