Research Catalog

Title

Urban dystopias : lofty ideals to shocking realities / guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry.

Publication

Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023.

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Additional Authors

• White, Marcus
• Burry, Jane
• Belleri, Daniele
• Ratti, Carlo
• Karakiewicz, Justyna, 1954-
• Yu, Kongjian
• Oliveras, Jordi
• Yang, Tianyi
• Lu, Andong
• Banerjee, Tridib
• Oosterhuis, Kas
• Pasquero, Claudia
• Poletto, Marco
• Spiller, Neil

Description

136 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"Cities are facing several coinciding global crises. There is the dominant existential narrative of the impact of and adaptation to climate change, itself powered by cities. In a time of unprecedented urbanisation and growth, resilient architecture and urbanism is needed in response. New modes of transport, renewed anxiety about robots taking jobs, AI, and the humbling recent experience of a global pandemic are all challenging norms and expectations. All of these are forces of social division, all are changing life experience, evoking strong-arm politics, and giving a sense of teetering between radically different possible futures. This is a story about reclaiming the urban design narrative and being alert to the potential impacts of socio-technical decision-making and design in cities. It is a story for its time. The issue explores the dichotomy of idealised visions for the design of urban settlements and the potentially shocking realities that may emerge from the same impulses and intentions. It examines the slippery territory between utopias and some of the ensuing dystopias that may unfold"--publisher's description.

Series Statement

Architectural design, 0003-8504 ; Vol 93, 01

Uniform Title

Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 93, no. 1.

Subject

• City planning > Social aspects
• Sustainable urban development
• Sociology, Urban
• City planning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

A truly golden handbook of Urban DYStopias / Marcus White and Jane Burry -- Urban farming: the reluctant utopia / Daniele Belleri and Carlo Ratti -- Pertopia: speculative thinking in a short-term world / Justyna Karakiewicz -- Broadband-acre City: no traffic problem, no buffering / Marcus White and Stephan Glackin -- The Mega-Eco-Garden City: stories of rewilding and ecodystopia / Nano Langenheim and Kongjian Yu -- An urban oddysey: city beautiful to city instagrammable / Jordi Oliveras -- Arcological city: going underground / Jane Burry and Mehmoush Latifi -- Cool urbanism: the radiat exitance city / Marcus White and Tianyi Yang -- The city of frictionless mobility / Ian Woodcock -- High-definition city: an invisible horizon of technological human space / Andong Lu, Jane Burry, Marcus White -- The promises of postcolonial utopias: perspectives from the global south / Tridib Banerjee -- Cité industrielle 4.0: zoning for the latest revolution / Jane Burry -- Another normal: a techno-social alternative to techno-feudal cities / Kas Oosterhuis -- The floating 'urban village': Makoko futures / Dan Nyandega -- GAN-Physarum: shaping the future of the urbansphere / Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto -- Fanning the flames of the city heat: Anton Markus Pasing / Neil Spiller.

Call Number

JFF 23-867

ISBN

• 111983399X
• 9781119833994

OCLC

1346351687

Title

Urban dystopias : lofty ideals to shocking realities / guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry.

Publisher

Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Architectural design, 0003-8504 ; Vol 93, 01

Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 93, no. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

White, Marcus, editor, contributor.

Burry, Jane, editor, contributor.

Belleri, Daniele, contributor.

Ratti, Carlo, contributor.

Karakiewicz, Justyna, 1954- contributor.

Yu, Kongjian, contributor.

Oliveras, Jordi, contributor.

Yang, Tianyi, contributor.

Lu, Andong, contributor.

Banerjee, Tridib, contributor.

Oosterhuis, Kas, contributor.

Pasquero, Claudia, contributor.

Poletto, Marco, contributor.

Spiller, Neil, contributor.

Research Call Number

JFF 23-867