Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination

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; Dubais 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. See more