Our cities are atrophying: What was once an open system inhabitable
by all and that was about freedom and self-determination is
becoming a zone in which architecture focuses only on comfort and
security: a walk-in investment portfolio of luxury properties,
offices and token patches of green. The masses, meanwhile, continue
to live in the endless housing developments of the suburbs.
Accommodation is characterised by a mania for barricades and
comfort. The construction industry is booming - and builds the same
houses over and over again. But do those buildings have anything to
do with the way in which most people want to live today,
considering dramatic demographic, technological and social change?
Where does the dream of the detached house come from? Which ideal
form of living are we taught by children's books, lifestyle
magazines and DIY shops? Who benefits from us living the way we
live? Niklas Maak shows how the interests of the construction
industry, overextended policies mired in regulations and the habits
of planners prevent us from rethinking construction, living
arrangements and the city. This humorous, controversial and very
well researched book is a precise economic analysis of the
architectural world, a brilliant cultural history of living
arrangements and a political manifesto for a new kind of
architecture.
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