Planet city:

"Planet City is a project by Los Angeles-based film director and architect Liam Young, exploring the productive potential of extreme densification, in a speculative future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. It imagines a radical reversal of planeta...

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Main Authors: Young, Liam Cole ca. 20./21. Jh (Author), McEoin, Ewan (Author), Gene Buck, Holly (Author), Sassen, Saskia 1947- (Author), Robinson, Kim Stanley 1952- (Author), Toland, Andrew (Author), Hopkinson, Nalo 1960- (Author), Griffen, Ryan (Author), Bratton, Benjamin H. 1968- (Author), Kallis, Giorgos 1972- (Author), Quifan, Chen (Author), Sánchez-Velasco, Amaia (Author), Xia, Jia 1984- (Author), Dawson, Ashley 1965- (Author), Jin, Emily (Author), Dudak, Andy (Author)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Melbourne Uro Publications 2020
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Summary:"Planet City is a project by Los Angeles-based film director and architect Liam Young, exploring the productive potential of extreme densification, in a speculative future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. It imagines a radical reversal of planetary sprawl, where the world's population retreats from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of the earth. It is a vision of the future that runs counter to our current world, where humans dominate the planet. Where centuries of colonisation, globalisation and never-ending economic extraction and expansionism has remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. Although wildly provocative, Planet City eschews the techno-utopian fantasy of designing a new world order. This is not a neo-colonial masterplan to be imposed from a singular seat of power. It is a work of critical architecture - a speculative fiction grounded in statistical analysis, research and traditional knowledge. It is a collaborative work of multiple voices and cultures supported by an international team of acclaimed environmental scientists, theorists and advisors. In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics. This is a fiction shaped like a city. Simultaneously an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent examination of the environmental questions facing us today."--Back cover
Item Description:Impressum: "Planet City was commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria for the NGV Triennial 2020"
Physical Description:383 Seiten Illustrationen 18 cm
ISBN:9780648685876
064868587X

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