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The book examines these changes using the examples of four key global European cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Stockholm. It is a first attempt at understanding the three processes discussed here within one comprehensive explanatory framework.
Tahl Kaminer is a Reader in Architectural History and Theory at Cardiff University. He is the author of The Efficacy of Architecture (2017) and Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation (2011), and editor of the anthologies Urban Asymmetries (2011), Critical Tools (2011) and Houses in Transformation (2008).
Leonard Ma is a Canadian architect based in Helsinki. He is a member of New Academy, and teaches Urban Studies and Architecture at the Estonian Academy of Art. His research focuses on neoliberalism, financialization, and the legacy of the welfare state, and has been published in e-flux architecture, The Avery Review, Drawing Matter and AA files. Leonard is a practicing architect and leads PUBLIC OFFICE, with projects and competition awards in Austria, Finland, Japan and Sweden.
Helen Runting is a planner and architectural theorist, as well as a founding partner of the Stockholm-based architecture office Secretary. She holds a PhD in Critical Studies in Architecture (KTH) and regularly publishes essays on the politics of design. Runting is a co-author of the prize-winning 14,495 Flats: A Metabolist’s Guide to New Stockholm (2021) and a co-editor of the anthology Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies (2018).