Does the generic city exists? Is the contemporary city, as Rem Koolhaas argues in his essay The Generic City, ‘all the same’? Does it have identity, is it undifferentiated, un-centred, unbounded? Is it already generic or will it become generic in the near future? In The Generic City, both matter of fact and prophetic, Koolhaas describes the future of what used to be the city in sixteen extended aphorisms.