Foreword by Grady Booch
There is a wonderful book by Anique Hommels called Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change that speaks of the technical, social, economic, and political issues of urban renewal. Cities grow, cities evolve, cities have parts that simply die while other parts flourish; each city has to be renewed in order to meet the needs of its populace. From time to time cities are intentionally refactored (many cities in Europe were devastated in World War II and so had to be rebuilt); most times cities are refactored in bits (the Canary Warf renewal in London comes to mind), but sometimes the literal and figurative debt is so great a once great city falls into despair (present day Detroit, for example).
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