Marcel Smets discusses his book Foundations of Urban Design (Actar Publishers, 2022), the role of urbanists and how they should approach urban planning as self-sufficient interventions in the city.
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Interview filmed within the programme of Debates at the Pavilion at the Barcelona Pavilion on the 16th of March 2023, organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
Interview by Marta Bugés. Recorded by Gloria Schönburg. Edited by Evgenyia Barashkova.
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Foundations of Urban Design
Interview filmed within the programme of Debates at the Pavilion at the Barcelona Pavilion on the 16th of March 2023, organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
Interview by Marta Bugés. Recorded by Gloria Schönburg. Edited by Evgenyia Barashkova.
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