Press Information /// July 3, 2006
Book Release ///In the last decade, more than one-fifth of all cities worldwide shrank –whether in the USA, Germany, Russia or Japan. In dealing with shrinking
cities, classical urban design and city planning reach their limits. In theface of this new challenge, new paths are taken: the “hard” tools ofconstruction and deconstruction are joined with the “soft” tools of political,social, cultural, and communicative interventions. The book “Shrinking Cities- Volume 2: Interventions” provides an international overview and critical
discussion of concepts and strategies for shrinking cities from the fields ofarchitecture, landscape design, urban planning, the media, performance, andart. The approaches discussed range from artistic responses and selfempowerment projects to architectural and landscape interventions, strategies
of media communication, and city marketing, to new legal regulations andutopian designs. A series of essays critically discusses current projects inNorth America, Europe, and Japan, as well as important historical positions inarchitecture and art.

Shrinking Cities - Volume 2: Interventions
Edited by Philipp Oswalt for the Kulturstiftung des Bundes(with the editorial assistance of Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann, and Anita Kaspar,with Füsun Türetken, Kristina Herresthal, Alexandra Hoorn, and Lena Feldhahn)
896 pages, 478 illustrations, 369 in color
Hatje Cantz Publishers, June 2006.
ISBN-10 3-7757-1711-0
ISBN-13 978-3-7757-1711-3€ 39,80
Contains: Projects by Will Alsop, Ruedi Baur, Florian Beigel, Chaos Computer
Club, Crimson, Jeremy Deller, M. J. Ginzburg, Gordon Matta-Clark, muf,Hidetoshi Ohno, OMA, Cedric Price, Andreas Siekmann, Robert Smithson,Superflex, Oswald Mathias Ungers, and many more.

Essays by Ash Amin, Regina Bittner, Wolfgang Engler, Robert Fishman, DanGraham, David Harvey, Juan Herreros, Bart Lootsma, and many more.
For review copies please contact: Meike Gatermann, Tel: +49 (0)711 657 32 95,
presse@hatjecantz.de.
Further publications of the Shrinking Cities Project ///Shrinking Cities - Volume 1: International Research
Edited by Philipp Oswalt for the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (2005)
736 pages, 503 illustrations, 389 in color
Softcover, ISBN-10 3-7757-1682-3, ISBN-13 978-3-7757-1682-6 (English)
Atlas of Shrinking Cities
Edited by Philipp Oswalt and Tim Rieniets
160 pages, ca. 120 illustrations, ca. 100 in color

Hardcover, ISBN-10 3-7757-1714-5, ISBN-13 978-3-7757-1714-4 (English/German)(to be published in August 2006)
Current press images /// http://www.shrinkingcities.com/fotos.0.html...............
Press and Publicity
Dr. Astrid Herbold
Schrumpfende Staedte - Shrinking Cities
Eisenacher Straße 74
D-10823 Berlin
Tel: +49 (30) 81 82 19-06
press@shrinkingcities.com
http://www.shrinkingcities.com
Shrinking Cities is an initiative project of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes(German Federal Cultural Foundation) in cooperation with the Project Office
Philipp Oswalt, the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, the Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation and the magazine archplus.
Since 2002, with more than 100 participating artists, architects, city
planners, journalists, scientists, and local initiatives from many countries,
the project has investigated processes of shrinking and strategies forintervention for the affected regions. The results of the work have beencommunicated in exhibitions in Berlin (2004), Halle, and Leipzig (2005/2006)
and in several publications with the publishing Verlag Hatje Cantz and archplus Verlag. A dozen follow-up exhibitions, including in the United States,
Britain, Russia, Japan, and Germany, will be held from 2006 to 2008.