The Danish town of Aalborg is to Flyvbjerg what Florence was to
Machiavelli: a laboratory for understanding the real workings of power
and what they mean for our more general concerns of social and political
organization. Politics, administration, and planning are examined in
ways that allow a rare, in-depth understanding. The reader witnesses,
firsthand, the classic and endless drama which defines what modernity
and democracy are and can be.