Rem Koolhaas Discovers The Countryside (And Comes Off As A City Rube)

Having spent 50 years theorizing about cities, he grew annoyed by howmuch time his fellow urbanists spend theorizing about cities. So hepulled on his wellies and went tromping out into the sticks with amixture of wistfulness and obstinate naïvete. The countryside “islargely off (our) radar,” he writes, making that parenthetical ourdo a lot of heavy lifting. You’d have to be a pretty serious indoorsmanto be startled by some of the changes he chronicles, or to believe thatth