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The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research. Featuring many of the top international names in the field, the handbook is divided into nine key sections: SECTION 1: THE GLOBALIZED CITY SECTION 2: URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCE SECTION 3: MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE SECTION 4: SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, SUSTAINABILITY SECTION 5: DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES SECTION 6: CREATIVE CITIES SECTION 7: URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES SECTION 8: NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY SECTION 9: URBAN FUTURES This is a central resource for researchers and students of Sociology, Cultural Geography, and Urban Studies.
The Changing Urban Future: The Views of the Media and Academics
The Changing Urban Future: The Views of the Media and Academics
INTRODUCTION
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the city of the future was an important driver of urban theories and designs. The way we live now does not necessarily reflect how people imagined it not so long ago, and contemporary cities certainly do not look like the supposed cities of the future that were conceived in the past. In fact, predicting the city of the future tells us more about the time when the prediction was made than about the future itself. In fact, imagining the future is ultimately another way of thinking about the present.
Therefore, on the one hand, one ...
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