01551nam a22002537a 4500 20260120091349.0 260120b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781836390244 (paperback) AU ENG AU Alfaisal Main Library HT166 .D63 2025 Paul Dobraszczyk FUTURE CITIES ARCHITECTURE AND THE IMAGINATION 1ST London, UK, Reaktion Books 2025 @2025 271 pages rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc 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 Print books. local 4 lcc BOOKS 608277 608277 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2026-01-20 0 HT166 .D63 2025 AU00000000021251 2026-01-20 09:15:02 200.00 2026-01-20 BOOKS