Main entry:

Dobraszczyk, Paul, author.

Title & Author:

Future cities : architecture and the imagination / Paul Dobraszczyk.

Edition:

Paperback edition

Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2025.
©2019

Description:

271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-258) 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:

"A breathtaking exploration that intertwines imaginary cities and real-world urban innovations. Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities – submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined and salvaged – this book teases out the links between speculation and reality, arguing that there is no clear separation between the two. In the Netherlands, 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 art, Future Cities re-connects the imaginary city with the real – proposing a future for humanity that is already grounded in the present and in the creative practices of many kinds."-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

1836390246
9781836390244 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning.
Cities and towns Forecasting.
Architecture.
Villes Prévision.
architecture (discipline)

Added entries:

Architecture and the imagination

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order