Glancing into Future Cities—City Futures

Future Cities—City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives

The book is about future cities and possible scenarios for city futures. A question central to this book is how to face urban challenges while providing and safeguarding positive outcomes, concerned with the improvement of the quality of urban life: How can future cities be made more liveable, sustainable, and resilient? How can cities continue...

Prologue - Future Cities - City Futures

Overview - Emerging Urban Perspectives

Epilogue—Towards a Transdisciplinary Discussion on Future Cities and City Futures

Things Fall Apart; The Center Cannot Hold

“It was generally believed that losing one’s life to a hurricane is… something that happens in far-away places,” the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh wrote in his 2017 book ‘The Great Derangement’ (p. 26). The current climate and environmental crises are in the very first place crises of culture, crises of imagination. [...] An idea in close...

The (Re)Valuation of Landscape through Architecture: Learning from the Norwegian Way of Living, Applying it to the Dutch Polder

In an ongoing movement of urbanization, life seems to mostly happen in planned environments while the untouched part of the world sometimes seems to be disconnected from people’s lives. These landscapes can only be fully understood and valued by a physical, sensory experience of it, not by looking at 2D representations. What defines a person’s...