Win A Copy Of ‘Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities’!

Last week we published our review of Urban Think Tank’s Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, a fascinating book that describes one of the world’s largest self-organized communities in Torre David, an uncompleted skyscraper in Caracas. We’re happy to give away two copies of the book to our readers!

What to do to make a chance to win? First, follow @popupcity on Twitter. Second, either tweet this article or our review and make sure to use the hashtag #TorreDavid. We’ve made it easy for you:

   

You’ve got time until Saturday 15 December 0:00 CET. After 15 December we will select two winners among the Pop-Up City followers who follow us and retweeted the article. Winners will receive a direct message on Twitter.

Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
Urban Think Tank
Edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner
Published by Lars Müller Publishers
16.5 x 24 cm,  hardcover
416 pages, 406 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-03778-298-9, English
EUR 45.00 / USD 60.00 / GBP 38.00

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