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Above all, I liked this book because of the architectural lab goal that achieved, essentially it's an urban excercise based (and this is what makes it interesting)on real extrapolated data extracted from diverse cities of Dutchland.It's a game of cause and effect,playing with different urban models that have been applied on different cities around the world and at the same time with the concecuenses of it.I think that is a really good example about how to analize the actual concept of the city based on pure shear data,on an experimental level.
What I really missed ,about the book, was a conclusion or some kind of resolutions extracted from the whole excercise more than the sole purpose of doing it,but still, it's an excellent book.

In architecture we collect all sorts of data and statistics for our design projects without knowing how to make use of them. MVRDV in this project show us how they can re-present the data in a new way that creates some meaningful consequences. They have demonstrated a way to deal with overloaded data and information which opens up a new opportunity for me.

I saw this book at a friends house, and after a few minutes i decided i just have to buy it. If you're intrested or work in architecture - buy it.