Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Continuing our occasional series on the Ultimate Future City:
The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov, 11/07
The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov, 11/07
The World Inside, by Robert Silverberg, 12/07
Diaspar, The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke, 3/08
Opinions change with age; otherwise, what is age for?
– James Blish, in The Triumph of Time, page […]
Continuing our occasional series on the Ultimate Future City:
The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov, 11/07
The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov, 11/07
The World Inside, by Robert Silverberg, 12/07
Diaspar, The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke, 3/08
“What city has two names twice?” 380
That question is posed, to a fellow spacefaring mayor, by John […]
Author’s note: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the last of science fiction’s original Big Three, died yesterday at the age of 90. Three weeks ago, I was in Colombo, where Clarke lived, and in the very brief period when I wasn’t working with the Slum Dwellers International folks, several colleagues and I strolled to dinner at […]
After the cities-are-doomed gloom of the 1950’s, as imagined by Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel (1954) and The Naked Sun (1956) — about which I wrote a two-part post — the 1960’s ushered in a different era of urban pessimism, with the Club of Rome’s frightening pseudo-computerized forecast, The Limits to Growth, and Paul […]
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