as he spoke on the future of cities last night at the Kulturforum. His presentation “Compact, polycentric and sustainable” was part of international design discussions “Le Grand Pari(s) de l’agglomération parisienne” (The Great Challenge of Greater Paris), a collaboration of the Cité de l’architecture, the Alfred Herrhausen Society and the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin the Institut français d’Allemagne in Berlin. Particularly interesting was his repeated proposition of the city as a machine for producing random encounters between strangers. Next date: May 6th - Jean Nouvel on “Culture as a factor for urbanisation”
