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Citius, Altius, FortiusCompact City Extended, Design and Politics #4

  • Client: Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment
  • Subject: Myths about high-rises
  • Year: 2011
  • ISBN / ISSN: 978 90 6450 747 2

The fourth part in the series 'design and politics' is about Dutch compact city policies. Highrise is a popular issue in discussions about intensification of the city, but the arguments that are deployed do not always make sense. In the essay, Daan Zandbelt puts pros and contras in a perspective. It is based on earlier research that was carried out for the Dutch Council on Tall Buildings, that is available as a printed publication.