ISBN: 3798323690 9783798323698

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Page count: 206

"Europe 2089: unwitnessed by the world, the continent, now a provicial backwater, has developed a unique immaterial way of life. Based on a shift to social consumption, its still capitalist economy has significantly decreased its need for material resources. Andbuildings and cities, as factories of immaterial labour, have become the main facilitators of this new regime. This book is not only a speculation about our future that, beyond left-right politics, tries to connect themes as diverse as neoliberalism, social media, the prosumer or our ever-present tangible desires. But, by recapturing Europe's fictional history through the lens of Basel and Munich, it can also be read as a strategy proposal of how to overcome our materialistic dependencies for the coming times of scarcity. And the (golden) possibilities this could hold for architecture and urbanism."--P. [4] of cover.