Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them - Couverture rigide

Abbott, School Of Urban Studies And Planning Carl

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ISBN 10 : 0819576719 ISBN 13 : 9780819576712

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2016

Synopsis

What science fiction can teach us about urban planning

Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient. Imagining Urban Futures is a remarkable treatise on what is best and strongest in urban theory and practice today, as refracted and intensely imagined in science fiction. As the human population grows, we can envision an increasingly urban society. Shifting weather patterns, rising sea levels, reduced access to resources, and a host of other issues will radically impact urban environments, while technology holds out the dream of cities beyond Earth. Abbott delivers a compelling critical discussion of science fiction cities found in literary works, television programs, and films of many eras from Metropolis to Blade Runner and Soylent Green to The Hunger Games, among many others.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

CARL ABBOTT is professor emeritus of urban studies and planning at Portland State University. He is the author of the prize-winning books The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West and Political Terrain: Washington DC from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis, as well as Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819576719
• ISBN 13: 9780819576712
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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