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1 maj 2011 · The paper argues that the ‘cities of the imagination’ generated by science fiction and other forms of narrative provide a powerful means of understanding, communicating and enriching the connections to place in urban communities.
1 sty 2016 · Imagining Urban Futures is a remarkable treatise on what is best and strongest in urban theory and practice today, as refracted and intensely imagined in science fiction. As the human...
28 lip 2018 · The discussion will bring together a filmmaker, urban planner, researcher and technologist, to explore how science fiction both reflects and influences our real-world cities.
In the film called The Nature of Cities, architecture professor Timothy Beatley visits several cities to investigate how city planners, landscape architects, ecologists and residents view the symbiosis between cities and rural landscapes. Here, two archetypes merge into visions about the new cities.
11 gru 2013 · Drawing on theories of posthumanism, this paper explores the contemporary city through a reading of China Miéville's fantasy novel Perdido Street Station, which exposes the imaginative potential of monsters and magic for developing new and resistant metropolitan mythologies.
9 paź 2020 · Techne is empirical in the sense that science fiction refers to the experience of the existence of an empirically based world, and the survey of science fiction readers finds clear and practical categories that separate science fiction from fantasy literature.
1 maj 2011 · This paper is concerned with one particular kind of story-telling – science fiction – and its relationship with the city, urban planning, and questions of community engagement.
