Paul Dobraszczyk : Future Cities. Architecture and the Imagination

Paul Dobraszczyk : Future Cities. Architecture and the Imagination
21 januari, 2025 Hedengrens
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.

THE AUTHOR

Paul Dobraszczyk is an architectural writer and a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. His books include Future Cities (2019) and Animal Architecture (2023), both published by Reaktion Books, as well as Architecture and Anarchism (2021).

Källa: Reaktion books