Inhabitable Infrastructures - Science Fiction Or Urban Future?

'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 and to participate.

List of contents

Preface
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

About the author

CJ 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).

Summary

‘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 and to participate.

Product details

• Authors: C. J. Lim, cj Lim, Cj (Bartlett School Lim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138119673
• ISBN: 978-1-138-11967-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Social forecasting, future studies, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Urban communities, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design