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Friday, December 25, 2020

Future Cities: New Challenges Mean We Need to Reimagine the Look of Urban Landscapes [SingularityHub, 18 December 2020]

Title: 
Future Cities: New Challenges Mean We Need to Reimagine the Look of Urban Landscapes

Authors:
Nick Dunn & Paul Cureton

Published:
SingularityHub, 18 December 2020

From the article:
Imagining future cities has long been a favorite activity for architects, artists, and designers. Technology is often central in these schemes—it appears as a dynamic and seemingly unstoppable force, providing a neat solution to society’s problems.  But our recent research has suggested that we need to significantly rethink the way we imagine future cities, and move our focus from an overarching technological vision to other priorities, such as environmental sustainability and the need to tackle social inequalities.