Exploring an amazing range of imagined cities - submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, destroyed, and saved - this book highlights the connections between hypothetical and real life, arguing that there is no clear distinction between them. In the Netherlands, are floating cities already being constructed? Do the recent skyscrapers of Dubai resemble those of past science fiction cities? Meanwhile, the makeshift settlements created by urban poor in the developing world already look like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk. Combining architecture, literature, cinema, and art, Future Cities reconnects the imaginary city with the real one - proposing a future for humanity that is already rooted in the present and in the creative practices of many kinds.

Pages: 272, Dimensions: 15.6x15.6cm