Imagining urban futures : cities in science fiction and what we might learn from them / / Carl Abbott
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Abbott Carl <1944->
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| Titolo: |
Imagining urban futures : cities in science fiction and what we might learn from them / / Carl Abbott
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| Pubblicazione: | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.0876209 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science fiction, American - History and criticism |
| Cities and towns in literature | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index (pages [247]-261). |
| Nota di contenuto: | Techno city; or, Dude, where's my aircar? -- Machines for breathing -- Migratory cities -- Utopia with walls: the carceral city -- Crabgrass chaos -- Soylent Green is people! varieties of urban crisis -- Keep out, you idiots! the deserted city -- Market and mosaic -- Afterword: Cities that will work. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | What science fiction can teach us about urban planning |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Imagining urban futures |
| ISBN: | 0-8195-7672-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816626103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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