Date: November 15th, 2007

The ultimate future city: Part 1, the caves

15 November, 2007 (09:58) | Cities, Ecosystems, Housing, Theory | No comments

My interest in cities was first piqued when, in 1970, I read Isaac Asimov’s two imagined-future-city novels, The Caves of Steel (1954) and The Naked Sun (1956). 
 

Original Doubleday hardcover, 1954
 
While each is structured as a murder mystery — a wonderful armature for exploring a foreign place, as I used for that purpose in In […]