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by Victor Muñoz Sanz (Author), Robbert Jan Van Der Veen (Author)
Reconnecting Cities, People, and Nature is a call to action for urban designers to deeply engage with the living fabric of the city. By working together with humans, non-humans, and allied disciplines, designers can spark a transformation that reshapes cities into thriving, sustainable social and natural ecosystems. Twenty thought-provoking design exercises explore what the city as a complex biotope could be like, inspiring action and creating change.
- Foreword by Rahul Mehrotra
- Twenty exercises based on practice and teaching
- Hand-drawn illustrations
Author Biography
VíctorMunoz Sanz is a Mexican-Spanish urban designer, researcher, and educator.
Currently, he is an assistant professor of urban design at TU Delft, where he
coordinates and teaches urban design studios and leads critical research on
productive landscapes, urban economies, and technology. He is the author of the
book Una Rápida Compañera (Bartlebooth 2024) and co-editor of Automated
Landscapes (Nieuwe Instituut, 2023), Roadside Picnics: Encounters
with the Uncanny (dpr Barcelona, 2022), and Habitat: Ecology Thinking
in Architecture (nai010, 2022). Víctor qualified as an architect at the
School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM, 2006) and holds a Master of
Architecture in urban design, with distinction, from Harvard University
Graduate School of Design (2011) and a PhD cum laude in architecture from
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2016). In addition to his academic work, he
has collaborated with offices such as Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos and
Porras Lacasta in developing urban design projects like Madrid Río. Robbert Jan
van der Veen is a Dutch urban designer and co-founder of ECHO Urban Design. He
works on inclusive urban landscapes from the human and social perspective. His
best-known projects in the Netherlands are Herwaert Rotterdam, ZOHO Rotterdam,
Esplanade Almere, and Happy Days Zoetermeer. In past years, ECHO has become
established in Europe with Manufacture Lausanne, Harbour Bridge Tallinn,
Leppavaraa Espoo Finland, and Limeco Limmatal Zürich. Robbert Jan holds a
Master of Urban Design from TU Delft. During his studies, he co-founded an
urban design firm in Rotterdam in 2006 named plein06, which grew into a
multidisciplinary design office working on complex inner-city densification
assignments. The company was renamed ECHO Urban Design in 2020. In parallel,
Robbert Jan has been active as a design teacher at ITU (Istanbul), UVA
(Amsterdam), and most recently TU Delft. Rahul
Mehrotra is the principal founder of RMA Architects. He divides his time
between working in Mumbai and Boston and teaching at the Graduate School of
Design at Harvard University where he is Professor of Urban Design and Planning
and the John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization.
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN
Publication Date: August 21, 2025
