{"product_id":"future-cities-9781350011656","title":"Future Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Dunn\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Urban Design and Executive Director of Imagination, the design research lab at Lancaster University, UK. He is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social Futures, examining the insights that the arts and humanities can bring to the ways we think, envision, and analyse the futures of people, places, and planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Cureton\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in Design at ImaginationLancaster, and member of the Data Science Institute, Lancaster University, UK. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eStrategies for Landscape Representation: Digital and Analogue Techniques\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eDrone Futures: UAS in Landscape \u0026amp; Urban Design\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImages of future cities are one of the most revealing ways in which hopes, fears and plans about the future are imagined. This wonderful book brings together images of urban futures from a wide range of places, disciplines, histories, media and genres, to dizzying effect. Whether you make images of urban futures, you're interested in studying them, or you're a fascinated spectator, this book is an essential, imaginative, provocative and above all generous resource for thinking about how and why to picture future cities. * Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eWe conceive of the future via the images we make of it. This lavishly illustrated visual history of the city is a powerful reminder of the influence of images on our thinking about the future. It is an asset in times when we need to scan the probable, the possible and the preferable futures that lie ahead. A wonderful and valuable resource. * Maarten Hajer, Professor of Urban Futures, Utrecht University, the Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures                                                                                                                           List of Tables                                                                                                                         Preface                                                                                                                                   Acknowledgements                                                                                                            1. Introduction: futures, imagination, and visions for cities                                             2. Cities of Vision: a visual history of the future                                                              3. Rendering Tomorrow: the impact of visualisation techniques                                 4. Technological Futures: optimism, science fiction, and infrastructural systems    5. Social Futures: experiments, ephemerality, and experiences                              6. Global Futures: challenges and opportunities for collective life                           7. Tomorrow’s Cities Today: conclusions and alternative futures                                  References","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738578366807,"sku":"9781350011656","price":25.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350011656.jpg?v=1720049534","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/future-cities-9781350011656","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}