Main entry:

Dobraszczyk, Paul, author.

Title & Author:

Future cities : architecture and the imagination / Paul Dobraszczyk.

Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2019.

Description:

271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : real and imagined future cities -- Unmoored cities. Drowned : postcards from the future ; Floating : water and urban utopias ; Airborne : architecture and the dream of flight -- Vertical cities. Skyscraper : from icons to experience ; Underground : security and revolution -- Unmade cities. Ruined : sprawl, disaster, entropy ; Remade : salvaging what remains.

Summary:

"Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today's cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical reasoning on the other. In a digital age when the real and the fantastic coexist as near equals, it is especially important to know how these two forces are entangled, and how together they may help us best conceive of cities yet to come. Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities--submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined, and salvaged--Future Cities teases out the links between speculation and reality, arguing that there is no clear separation between the two. In the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built; Dubai's recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past; while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk. Bringing together architecture, fiction, film, and visual art, Paul Dobraszczyk reconnects the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is firmly grounded in the present and in the diverse creative practices already at our fingertips."-- (Source of summary not specified)

ISBN:

1789140641 (hardcover)
9781789140644 (hardcover)

Subject:

City planning.
Cities and towns Forecasting.
Villes Prévision.
71.14 urban society.
74.72 urban planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy City Planning & Urban Development.
Imaginary places.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Architecture and the imagination

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304636
Call No.: BIB 250280
Status: Available