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020 _a9781836390244
_c(paperback)
040 _aAU
_bENG
_cAU
049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 _aHT166
_b.D63 2025
100 _4Paul Dobraszczyk
245 _aFUTURE CITIES
_bARCHITECTURE AND THE IMAGINATION
250 _a1ST
260 _aLondon, UK,
_bReaktion Books
_c2025
264 _c@2025
300 _a271 pages
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
520 _aA 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
655 0 _aPrint books.
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