Future Cities

Nick Dunn is Professor of Urban Design and Executive Director of Imagination, the design research lab at Lancaster University, UK. He is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social Futures, examining the insights that the arts and humanities can bring to the ways we think, envision, and analyse the futures of people, places, and planet.Paul Cureton is a Senior Lecturer in Design at ImaginationLancaster, and member of the Data Science Institute, Lancaster University, UK. His previous publications include Strategies for Landscape Representation: Digital and Analogue Techniques (2016) and Drone Futures: UAS in Landscape & Urban Design (2020).

• List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: futures, imagination, and visions for cities 2. Cities of Vision: a visual history of the future 3. Rendering Tomorrow: the impact of visualisation techniques 4. Technological Futures: optimism, science fiction, and infrastructural systems 5. Social Futures: experiments, ephemerality, and experiences 6. Global Futures: challenges and opportunities for collective life 7. Tomorrow’s Cities Today: conclusions and alternative futures References

Images of future cities are one of the most revealing ways in which hopes, fears and plans about the future are imagined. This wonderful book brings together images of urban futures from a wide range of places, disciplines, histories, media and genres, to dizzying effect. Whether you make images of urban futures, you're interested in studying them, or you're a fascinated spectator, this book is an essential, imaginative, provocative and above all generous resource for thinking about how and why to picture future cities.