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Carl Abbott 
Imagining Urban Futures 
Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them

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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.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Techno City; or, Dude, Where’s My Aircar?
Machines for Breathing
Migratory Cities
Utopia with Walls: The Carceral City
Crabgrass Chaos
Soylent Green Is People! Varieties of Urban Crisis
Keep Out, You Idiots! The Deserted City
Market and Mosaic
Afterword: Cities That Will Work
Notes
Notes on Sources
Index

عن المؤلف

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.
لغة الإنجليزية ● شكل EPUB ● صفحات 276 ● ISBN 9780819576729 ● حجم الملف 5.3 MB ● الناشر Wesleyan University Press ● مدينة CT. 06459 ● بلد US ● نشرت 2016 ● للتحميل 24 الشهور ● دقة EUR ● هوية شخصية 5513298 ● حماية النسخ Adobe DRM
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