Imagining urban futures cities in science fiction and what we might learn from them / Carl Abbott.

Author/creator Abbott, Carl, 1944-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMiddletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016]
Description261 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index (pages [247]-261).
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016027493
ISBN9780819576712 (cloth : alk. paper)

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