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- ISBN 9789401403764
- Weight: 1302g
- Dimensions: 230 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 2024
- Publisher: Lannoo Publishers
- Publication City/Country: BE
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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"Award-winning Belgian photojournalist Nick Hannes casts a critical eye on six newly built capital cities around the world, from Korea to Kazakhstan, and questions whether they are really serving the people who live in them." — Elle Decoration UK
What does the ideal capital look like? Photographer Nick Hannes travelled to six countries – Egypt, Korea, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Brazil – that have recently built a new capital or are in the process of doing so. Each and every one of them is a typical example of what Rem Koolhaas calls the Generic City: a planned city without historical layers, local identity, or its own character. As a visual sociologist with a sharp eye for detail, Hannes searches for the human dimension in a setting full of spectacular architecture and pompous prestige projects. New Capital is a critical reflection on unbridled neoliberal urban development and its social and ecological consequences, but is also peppered with subtle humour and surprising coincidences. Meandering between pride and sadness, New Capital shows how utopia and dystopia are sometimes surprisingly close.
Nick Hannes is a photojournalist and documentary photographer from Belgium, specialised in globalisation, urbanisation and migration. He is represented by the Panos Pictures agency in London. Hannes won the Magnum Photography Award – Documentary – for the series Dubai. Bread and circuses and this year also the World Press Photo Award in the Series Africa category. At Lannoo he published the book Red Journey in 2009. Dorina Pojani is Associate Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals (Edward Elgar, 2021).
