TY  - BOOK
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TI  - FUTURE CITIES: ARCHITECTURE AND THE IMAGINATION
SN  - 9781836390244
AV  - HT166 .D63 2025
PY  - 2025///
KW  - Print books
KW  - local
N2  - 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

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