Paul Dobraszczyk’s Future Cities surveys the multitudinous ways creatives have imagined how humans might build their living spaces in the future.

WWII-era sea forts at Maunsell off the UK coast, used as the site of projects by artist Stephen Turner (courtesy Reaktion Books)
WWII-era sea forts at Maunsell off the UK coast, used as the site of projects by artist Stephen Turner (courtesy Reaktion Books)

Paul Dobraszczyk’s Future Cities isn’t the usual sort of book on architecture. The structures and locations it discusses are wholly speculative. The book is a survey of the sheer number of ways creatives have imagined how humans might build their living spaces in the future. In his introduction, Dobraszczyk explains that “Imagination can be said to prepare the ground for the ‘real’ and is always at work trying to transform it. Here, what is real and what is imagined are not two separate worlds, but ones that are always informing and transforming each other.”

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