Christian WerthmannChristian Werthmann is a professor of landscape architecture and design at Leibniz University in Hannover. Until 2012, he was an associate professor and the program director of the Master in Landscape Architecture degree programs at the Harvard Gradute School of Design. Werthmann has written numerous books and articles, exhibited globally, and been a speaker at international conferences on landscape and urbanism. As a former Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at TU Munchen, he curated two major Metropolis Nonformal symposia, in 2011 and 2013, which form the basis of this publication. His own research concentrates on the potential of landscape architecture and infrastructure in heavily urbanized and socially conflicted terrain. His most recent publication, "Rehabitar la Montana," co-produced with the think tank URBAM, engages the non-formal occupation of geologically risky terrain in Medellin. Read More Read Less