Profitopolis or the Condition of the City at the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Berlin

"Das Unbehagen an unseren Städten ist ziemlich allgemein"1 opined the German architecture and design theoretician Hans Eckstein in 1972, 'discontent with our cities is fairly universal', continuing 'it is growing day by day. Accusations and indignation are heard everywhere. It is almost impossible to ignore the amount of literature about the miserable condition of our cities.' Yet despite the apparent, certainly for Eckstein, urgency and ubiquity of the discontent, he laments that 'there are