The suburban Dutch neighborhood of Hoogyliet, just outside Rotterdam, was designed after World War II along Modernist lines. Over the ensuing years, the district became more and more run-down and economically depressed. Then the WiMBY project came along--its mission to raise the standard of this increasingly blighted neighborhood by developing a range of experimental buildings for the town's regeneration, as well as smaller-scale architectural, urban planning, visual art and socio-cultural projects. This densely adorable paperback tells the whole story, focusing on the positive achievements and lessons drawn, with copious illustrations of all the resulting buildings and designs. It's a must-have for any design professionals interested in real, working, urban renewal, but also an uplifting manual for a more general audience: the book reads like a fairytale, tracing the many ups and downs of the WiMBY project in frank detail in a format that is as informative as it is lively and humorous.