Maurice J. Hermans
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The Anti-City Guide (2027)

The Anti-City Guide
uncovers the unfiltered energy of arrival districts, shrinking cities, and post-industrial urban landscapes. 

In my debute De Antistad (nai010, 2016), 
I explore how these cities reveal a society beyond growth—unscripted, unvarnished, and utterly real. Often dismissed as marginal, these places are in fact a radical antidote to the polished museumification and overtourism suffocating Europe’s cities.


The Anticity
is a metaphor for the overlooked, the irrelevant, the places that don’t matter. 
It champions alternative perspectives on urbanity, drawing on the theories of Nic Tummers and Lewis Mumford