Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 – 2006

“As we stand on the edge of the greatest era of city-building the Earth has ever known (or, if the demographers are right, is likely to ever know) we should be thankful for the freedom of thought that the rebels of the late 20th Century carved out and explored. Whether it was David Greene arguing that “The house is an appliance for carrying with you. The City is a machine for plugging into” or Archigram speculating about “The next vehicle which eliminates the car,” these design freaks busted loose whole approaches to thinking that now enable us to take on the task of providing urban homes for seven billion people (as we’re informed we must by 2050) in innovative ways.