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The utopian 20th-century model of a modern city – one that has been replicated around the world – is being exposed as unsuitable for adapting to the pace of change in the 21st century.
Around 1964, at the peak of his fame with the “Spatial City,” Friedman moved away from the drawing board — and instead began using math to prove his structures were products of careful reasoning.
Floating cities are back on the agenda, with the UN recently hosting a meeting on the subject. The latest in a long line of proposals since the ‘50s was unveiled, but just how feasible is the idea?
An exciting announcement about upcoming plans – and we revisit an old favourite episode.
Throughout the movement’s history, African Americans and whites lived, worked and protested side-by-side. It was one of the few long-term experiments in American interracial communalism.
Now that the U.S. government is threatening to define sex as either male or female, we need to fight more than ever for trans rights. But let’s give up the utopian ideal of a label-free future.
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University
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Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Academic Lead (Engagement), Legal Scholar, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
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Emerita Professor of Religious Studies, San Diego State University
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Assistant Professor, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sociology, Australian Catholic University
