Architectures of the Near FutureISBN: 978-0-470-69955-3
Paperback
136 pages
October 2009
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In this highly pertinent issue, guest-editor Nic Clear questions
received notions of the future. Are the accepted norms of economic
growth and expansion the only means by which society can develop
and prosper? Should the current economic crisis be making us call
into question a future of unlimited growth? Can this moment of
crisis – economic, environmental and technological –
enable us to make more informed choices about the type of future
that we want and can actually achieve? Architectures of the
Near Future offers a series of alternative voices,
developing some of the neglected areas of contemporary urban life
and original visions of what might be to come. Rather than
providing simplistic and seductive images of an intangible shiny
future, it rocks the cosy world of architecture with polemical
blasts.
- Draws on topics as diverse as synthetic space, psychoanalysis, Postmodern geography, post-economics, cybernetics and developments in neurology.
- Includes an exploration of the work of JG Ballard.
- Features the work of Ben Nicholson.