Entrée principale:

Dobraszczyk, Paul, author.

Titre et auteur:

Future cities : architecture and the imagination / Paul Dobraszczyk.

Édition:

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 -- Part 1: Unmoored cities - 1. Drowned : postcards from the future -- 2. Floating : water and urban utopias -- 3. Airborne : architecture and the dream of flight -- Part 2: Vertical cities - 4. Skyscraper : from icons to experience -- 5. Underground : security and revolution -- Part 3: Unmade cities - 6. Ruined : sprawl, disaster, entropy -- 7. Remade : salvaging what remains

Résumé:

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.

ISBN:

1836390246
9781836390244 (paperback)

Sujet:

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

Vedettes secondaires:

Architecture and the imagination

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 321462
Cote: 321462
Exemplaire: 1
Statut: Disponible