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Last futures : nature, technology and the end of architecture /

In the late 1960s, the world was faced with impending disaster, the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities and a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Douglas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Brooklyn, New York : Verso, 2016.
Subjects:
Architectural design > History > 20th century.
Architectural design > Social aspects.
Architecture > Forecasting.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Future Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Museums of the Future
  • The City out of History
  • Megastructure Visions
  • Systems and Failures
  • Cybernetic Dreams Reactions and Defeats
  • Apocalypse Then
  • Biospheres and the End.