A Visual History of the Future

Nick Dunn*, Paul Cureton+, Serena Pollastri*

*Lancaster University, +University of Hertfordshire

Liveable Cities 28.05.14

Future Visions: the agency and valency of imagining the cities of the future

Professor Nick Dunn

Visionary City, William Robinson Leigh, 1908. Future Manhattan, Harvey Wiley Corbett, 1910.

Lure of the City, Hugh Ferriss, 1925.

Buckminster Fuller, Dome over Manhattan, 1960.

Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, Warner Bros, 1982.

Future Cities, Ngram Viewer, 4th March 2014.

Garden City Concept, Garden Cities of To-morrow, Ebeneezer Howard, 1902.

Diagram of general town-plan, Welwyn Garden City, Louis de

Soissons, 1920.

Promotional poster, Welwyn Garden City, 1920.

Festival of Britain, South Bank, London, 1951.

Golden Lane Estate, City of London, Alison & Peter Smithson,1952.

City of Manchester Heliport near Victoria Station, R. Nicholas, City Surveyor. Drawn by Sidney R. Fisher, 1956.

Park Hill, Sheffield, Jack Lynn & Ivor Smith, 1961..

The Town Centre, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, drawn by Mike Evans,1963.

MK in 1990, Aerial Perspective, Milton Keynes Main Centre, Helmut Jacoby, 1974..

Garden City, Ebenezer Howard,1902. Concentric Zone Theory, Robert Park &

Ernest Burgess, 1925. The Ecology of Fear, Mike Davis, 1998.

Ecstacity, Nigel Coates, 1992-2004..

Let’s Think of the Future, Planning

Department, Bradford City Council, c1982.

The Bowl, Bradford Masterplan, 4km2 regeneration, Alsop Architects, 2004.

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