Winy Maas on the future of cities

Is it possible for us to expand on urban settings without consuming space and possibly overcrowding our cities even further? With skyscrapers taking over cities, one wouldn’t see a very promising future for our cities. Maas, the Dutch landscape architect, has established an innovative project in his research on the future of cities with MVRDV and The Why Factory. He suggests that rather than constructing new buildings all the time, we should alternatively modify them from within. This way, the improvement of the quality of cities has a chance to better our space and our planet