Series

With the International building exhibition IBA Hamburg the Hanseatic City focuses on the potentials of the international urban society —the COSMOPOLIS—, the design of the “inner peripheries”— the METROZONES, and the CITY IN CLIMATE CHANGE.

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1 Metropolis: Reflections

Volume 1 of the Iba documentation features a retrospective of former german building exhibitions, an outlook on the IBA Hamburg, and complex considerations of the metropolis phenomenon.

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2 Metropolis: Resources

Volume 2 of the Metropolis: series illuminates causes and examines previous efforts in architecture, town planning and urban development planning with the intention of reflecting on strategies and visions for a new, appropriate form of urban living.

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3 Metropolis: Education

Volume 3 in the Metropolis: series enquires after the new city of the information society and its need for innovative “pedagogic architecture,” and also presents examples of reformative interven- tion for discussion.

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4 Metropolis: Metrozones

Volume 4 of the Metropolis: series presents examples and demonstrates strategies and visions for the global urban transformation of metrozones in the 21st century.

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5 Metropolis: Cosmopolis

Volume 5 of the Metropolis: series is devoted to the structures of such communities within the Cosmopolis and to the urban and archi-tectural spaces in which they live and act; spaces that they inhabit and see as home.

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