Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination

Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination

Paul Dobraszczyk
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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.

     

    Author: Paul Dobraszczyk 

    Publisher: Reaktion Books

    Format: Paperback

    Pages: 272

    ISBN: 9781836390244

    Publication Date: February 2025