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Inhabitable Infrastructures - Science fiction or urban future? (Paperback)
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Inhabitable Infrastructures - Science fiction or urban future? (Paperback)
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Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the
follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one
of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers,
explores the potential of climate change-related multi-use
infrastructures that address the fundamental human requirements to
protect, to provide and to participate. The stimulus for the
infrastructures derives from postulated scenarios and processes
gleaned from science fiction and futurology as well as the current
body of scientific knowledge regarding changing environmental
impacts on cities. Science fiction is interdisciplinary by nature,
aggregates the past and present, and evaluates both lay opinions
and professional strategies in an attempt to develop foresight and
to map possible futures. The research culminates in the creation of
innovative multi-use infrastructures and integrated self-sustaining
support systems that meet the challenges posed through climate
change and overpopulation, and the reciprocal benefits of
simultaneously addressing the threat and the shaping of cities. J.
G. Ballard has written that the psychological realm of science
fiction is most valuable in its predictive function, and in
projecting emotions into the future. The knowledge from the book is
widely transferable, constituting both solutions and speculative
visions of future urban environments. The book is indispensable
reading for professionals and students in the fields of urban
design, architecture, engineering and environmental socio-politics.
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