描述

Kees Christiaanse is one of the field’s most influential forces in urban design over the last half-century. ‘Textbook’ spans 30 years of the well-known urban designer and architect’s thinking about cities. He is responsible for large urban projects, including Hamburg HafenCity, Rotterdam’s waterfront revitalisation, and London’s Olympic Legacy Plan. The collected texts range from charting the influence of the bicycle on his thinking about future mobility to the examination of dominant concepts and projects in the contemporary built environment.