# De Rotterdam...

> “Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition – hyper-density – without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan’s architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.” -Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978 Image: De Rotterdam by photographer Ossip Van Duivenbode via The Architectural Review

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Author: Brandon Donnelly
Published: May 7, 2016
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“Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition – hyper-density – without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan’s architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.” 
-Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978

Image: De Rotterdam by photographer Ossip Van Duivenbode via The Architectural Review