Young, Liam (Architect), author.

Planet city / Liam Young, Ewan McEoin, Holly Gene Buck, Saskia Sassen, Kim Stanley Robinson, Andrew Toland, Nalo Hopkinson, Ryan Griffin, Benjamin Bratton, Giorgos Kallie, Chen Quifan, Amaia Sánchez-Velesco, Xia Jia, Ashley Dawson ; translators: Emily Jin and Andy Dudak ; book design: Stuart Geddes and Mark Campbell ; photographer: Driely S.

Melbourne : Uro Publications, 2020.
©2020.

1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.

"Planet City is a project by Los Angeles-based film director and architect Liam Young, exploring the productive potential of extreme densification, in a speculative future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. It imagines a radical reversal of planetary sprawl, where the world's population retreats from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of the earth. It is a vision of the future that runs counter to our current world, where humans dominate the planet. Where centuries of colonisation, globalisation and never-ending economic extraction and expansionism has remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. Although wildly provocative, Planet City eschews the techno-utopian fantasy of designing a new world order. This is not a neo-colonial masterplan to be imposed from a singular seat of power. It is a work of critical architecture - a speculative fiction grounded in statistical analysis, research and traditional knowledge. It is a collaborative work of multiple voices and cultures supported by an international team of acclaimed environmental scientists, theorists and advisors. In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics. This is a fiction shaped like a city. Simultaneously an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent examination of the environmental questions facing us today."--Back cover.

9780648685876 paperback
064868587X
064868587X (Trade Paper) :

National Gallery of Victoria Exhibitions.
National Gallery of Victoria
NGV triennial (2020)
Cities and towns Growth Exhibitions.
Urban density Exhibitions.
Climatic changes Exhibitions.
Wilderness areas Exhibitions.
Villes Croissance Expositions.
Densité urbaine Expositions.
Climat Changements Expositions.
Réserves de la vie sauvage Expositions.
Cities and towns Growth
Climatic changes
Urban density
Wilderness areas
Australian

Exhibition catalogs

McEoin, Ewan, author.
Gene Buck, Holly, author.
Sassen, Saskia, author.
Stanley Robinson, Kim, author.
Toland, Andrew, author.
Hopkinson, Nalo, author.
Griffen, Ryan, author.
Bratton, Benjamin, author.
Kallis, Giorgos, author.
Quifan, Chen, author.
Sánchez-Velasco, Amaia, author.
Jia, Xia, zuthor.
Dawson, Ashley, 1965- author.
Jin, Emily, translator.
Dudak, Andy, translator.
Geddes, Stuart, book designer.
Campbell, Mark, book designer.
Schwartz, Driely, photographer.
University of Technology, Sydney, sponsoring body.
National Gallery of Victoria, commissioning body.

Location: Library main y 309414
Call No.: BIB 254678
Status: Available