Learning from new millennium science fiction cities

Mark C. Childs

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2015, vol. 8, issue 1, 97-109

Abstract: Fiction, and particularly current science fiction, (1) reflects, gives voice to, and may shape popular images of the city; (b) provides models of 'world building' whose methods may complement and critique other methods of informing the design of cities; and (3) plays out poetically rich thought experiments - cities of feeling - that can help designers understand nuances of current urban design and architectural theory. This paper examines the urban landscapes of three 21st-century award-winning science fiction novels. These cities of the fictive imagination can inform the creation of cities of the design imagination.

Date: 2015
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