1st Edition

Inhabitable Infrastructures Science fiction or urban future?

By CJ Lim Copyright 2017
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
 

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

 

 

Biography

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).