Koolhaas pronounced urbanism dead in 1995. Since then, urban design has struggled to come to terms with this and other losses including environmental stability, af- fordable housing, design control, and urban amenity. This book explores urban design paradigms transitioning through a misappropriation of Kübler-Ross'' "five stages of grief" – from pro-sprawl ''denial'', NIMBY ''anger'', revisionist NewUrban, ''bargaining'', ''depressed'' starchitects, through to an optimistic manifesto of ''acceptance''.
