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OverviewInhabitable 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: CJ LimPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 1.224kg ISBN: 9781138119666ISBN 10: 1138119660 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 30 May 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Climate Change and the City Science Fiction: The imagination sourcebook Science Fiction or Urban Future? The City as A Collection of Infrastructures To Protect urban future i London is Flooding? urban future ii Swine Under the Sheltering Skies urban future iii The City of Frozen Spires To Provide urban future iv Twenty Thousand Fish Above the Sea urban future v The City of A Thousand Lakes urban future vi The Forest: An infrastructure for urban resilience urban future vii Perfection To Participate urban future viii Corporate Republic: The search for utopia Research and Reproduction Credits IndexReviewsAuthor InformationCJ Lim is the Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bartlett UCL and founder of Studio 8 Architects, a multi-disciplinary practice in urban planning, architecture and landscape focusing on cultural, social and sustainability issues. His other authored books published by Routledge include Smartcities and Eco-Warriors (2010), Short Stories: London in two-and-a-half dimensions (2011) and Food City (2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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