Great planning disasters Fresno (Steve Payne, 2009) A bizarre documentary about the effects of the mortgage crisis in this Californian city. It is one of the first documentaries dealing with the economic crisis in a painful yet humorous way.
Lessons from the past by Wies Sanders The financial crisis is hitting architectural practices hard. The quantitative decline of the construction sector is enormous and painful, but what are the long-term qualitative consequences for urban development during and after the crisis?
Great planning disasters Havana, the new art of making ruins (Florian Borchmeier, 2007)
Who is in charge here? by Rita Brons The exposé of large-scale fraud in the Dutch construction industry by the television programme Zembla in 2001 was an example of investigative journalism that sometimes put one in mind of the era of the Watergate scandal. The subsequent parliamentary inquiry uncovered ‘fiddling with millions’ in the form [...]
Great planning disasters Hashima (Thomas Nordanstad & C.M. von Hausswolff, 2003).
