The city in the city : Berlin : a green archipelago / a manifesto (1977) by Oswald Matthias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas with Peter Riemann, Hans Kollhoff, and Arthur Ovaska ; a critical edition by Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Marot ; UAA Ungers Archives for Architectural Research.

Includes bibliographical references.

-- Relaunch / Sébastien Marot -- Berlin: a green archipelago : The genesis of a hopeful monster / Sébastien Marot : "But most of all, Ungers": Berlin stories / Rem Koolhaas -- Pictures at an exhibition : Berlin influences and ramifications / Florian Hertweck -- The city in the city : Ghostwriting / Rem Koolhaas in conversation with Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Marot ; An exhibition concept / Arthur Ovaska in conversation with Sébastien Marot ; An exciting exercise / Hans Kollhoff in conversation with Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Marot -- A symbiotic operation / Peter Riemann in conversation with Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Marot.

In the manifesto 'The City in the City - Berlin: A Green Archipelago', Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of the European city that was popular at the time, they developed the figure of a polycentric urban landscape. However, the manifesto really began to exert an effect beginning in the 1990s onwards, when the focus of the urban planning discourse turned to the examination of crises, recessions, and the phenomenon of demographic shrinking. This critical edition contains a previously unpublished version of the manifesto by Rem Koolhaas, as well as interviews with co-authors Rem Koolhaas, Peter Riemann, Hans Kollhoff, and Arthur Ovaska. Introductory texts explain the development of the manifesto between Cornell and Berlin, position the work in the planning history of Berlin, and reveal its influence on current approaches.

English and some German.