Fool's Gold?

Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781349543588
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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 2012 9781349543588
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What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century. Through architecture, fiction, theory, film and experiments with everyday life, Sargisson explores contemporary hopes and fears about the future.

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ISBN13:9781349543588
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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List of Tables and Figures Prologue Acknowledgements Introduction: Fool's Gold Definitions, Debates and Conflicts: Utopianism, Anti-utopianism and Anti-Anti-Utopianism Religious Fundamentalism Feminism and Gender Sex and Sexual Identity Climate Change and Catastrophe Fiction Human Attitudes to Nature Green Intentional Communities Fantastic Architecture and the Case of Dubai Domestic Architecture: New Urbanism and Cohousing Computer Gaming Cloning, Cyborgs and Robots Conclusions Notes Appendix: Dubai Strategic Plan 2015 : Aims and Guiding Principles List of Primary Sources Bibliography

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