cover MONU nr7 (more info: http://www.b-o-a-r-d.nl/monu.html)
The study "The Re-Creation of the European City - Urban Shopping List for Secondary Cities" by STAR has been published in MONU nr7:" 2nd Rate Urbanism".
Also in this isuue, Bernd Upmeyer (editor in chief of MONU) and Beatriz Ramo interview Floris Alkemade, partner of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) about Almere in The Netherlands.
(see more in PUBLICATIONS).
Intro of the interview "Dumped in Almere":
Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer spoke on behalf of Monu with Floris Alkemade. Floris Alkemade is one of the partners of Rotterdam based OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). He joined OMA in 1989 and has worked there as a project director for architecture and urban planning since 1996. As project architect and project leader, he worked in the early nineties on the Euralille master plan, a 70-hectare business, and civic centre in northern France hosting the European hub for high-speed trains. Since 1994, he has been leading the master-plan project for the City Center of Almere, which is currently under construction. The land where Almere sits today was part of the North Sea 50 years ago. At the end of the fifties, the construction of the polder began. Almere can be categorized today as a 2nd rate city with 180.000 inhabitants. The city is located 35 km east of Amsterdam. The first house was built in 1976, and just 8 years later, Almere was designated an official municipality. It is expected that the population of Almere reaches 210.000 inhabitants by 2015, becoming then the fifth biggest city in Netherlands.