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How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dreamand buildbetter sustainable and more equitable cities for everyone

Speculative futuresdesign approaches that help us visualize new and potential worldsmove us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be Inspired by art film fiction and industrial design they use speculation to provoke imagine and dream into what lies ahead

Written for futurists urbanists and artists looking to enact citywide transformationand for readers at the intersection of disruption design innovation and city livingthis book offers creative paths toward urban resilience using design tools that already exist

Artist and urbanist Johanna Hoffman uses an interdisciplinary lens informed by her experience in architecture art engineering and construction to examine how we can reimagine our cities at every level as individuals in community and on a professional scale

Hoffman blends precedent studies compelling research and professional memoir connecting urban development issues with the processes and actions best positioned to create better solutions for our cities The result is a dynamic field guide that uses speculative futures to imagine advocate for and adapt to modern scales scopes and speeds of change

While this book is of great utility to professionals in the urban design and planning industries its also for people who resist received capitalistic technocratic ways of thinkingreaders who seek new solutions to old problems with anticolonial livingsystemsoriented lenses