2024-05-07T07:51:06-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/144591361/a-fairy-tale-for-an-age-of-global-urbanization Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-12-30T17:26:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/md/mdvnuxqaj5i9l8lu.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The people understood that the monster&rsquo;s power was fed by liquid gold. It could go anywhere and set up a tower, even in the middle of an old neighbourhood where nobody had asked it to come. [...] The city, however, was not about to go down without a fight. After all, it had survived many a bad period across the centuries, and was still alive &ndash; unlike those kings and queens and powerful companies of old. The neighbourhoods could see they had to get together and fight this monster.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Saskia Sassen and her son, Hilary Koob-Sassen, wrote and illustrated an urban fairy tale for theguardian.com, complete with villainous gentrifiers, Chinese skyscrapers, Jane Jacobs-style wisdom, and a cautionary conclusion on "smart" cities.</p><p>More on Archinect:</p><ul><li><a title="Fairy Tales 2015 competition winners revealed" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/123125518/fairy-tales-2015-competition-winners-revealed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fairy Tales 2015 competition winners revealed</a></li><li><a title="Submit your Fairy Tales 2016 entries by January 16!" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/143595051/submit-your-fairy-tales-2016-entries-by-january-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Submit your Fairy Tales 2016 entries by January 16!</a></li><li><a title="&ldquo;Hortus Conclusus Andersen&rdquo; - 1st-prize for H C Andersen House of Fairytales, Denmark" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/98448530/hortus-conclusus-andersen-1st-prize-for-h-c-andersen-house-of-fairytales-denmark" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">&ldquo;Hortus Conclusus Andersen&rdquo; - 1st-prize for H C Andersen House of Fairytales, Denmark</a></li></ul>