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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101138119679

ISBN-139781138119673

eBay Product ID (ePID)234711884

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Number of Pages304 Pages

Publication NameInhabitable Infrastructures : Science Fiction or Urban Future?

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUrban & Land Use Planning, Landscape, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban, Development / Sustainable Development

Publication Year2017

TypeTextbook

AuthorC. J. Lim

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Architecture, Social Science, Business & Economics

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight36.1 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2017-011238

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentPreface 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 Index

Synopsis'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 changerelated multi-use infrastructures that address the fundamental human requirements to protect, to provide, 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., Climate change is a reality. Increases in global temperature have caused sea levels to rise at an accelerating pace, changing patterns and quantities of precipitation as well as the probable expansion of subtropical deserts. According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the greatest threat of climate change is the profound manner in which it could impact upon every aspect of our lives, from community security to foreign policy. Efforts toward risk management and adaptation of cities for climate change are continuing, including local to global assessments on the direct impacts of global warming and sea-level rise on the world s coastal areas. However, a relatively unstudied area is that of climate change-related design and planning opportunities beyond single-use adaptation. Inhabitable Infrastructures explores the potential of multi-programmatic inhabitable large-scale infrastructures that address the fundamental requirements of food, water and shelter, and the reciprocal benefits of simultaneously addressing the threat and the transformation of cities. Inhabitable Infrastructures addresses the same theme of urban transformation as explored in Food City and Smartcities and Eco-warriors , but looks at how the infrastructure systems derive from the current body of scientific knowledge regarding impacts of climate change on cities as well as postulated scenarios and processes gleaned from science fiction and futurology can develop foresight and map possible futures. A compendium of speculative design strategies, case studies and new forms of infrastructure will establish an integrated, self-sustaining support system, which aspires to transform socio-economic relations, contribute to community security, and ultimately promote a new paradigm for urban living. "

LC Classification NumberHT241.L55 2017