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""Tony Fry has an outstanding reputation for innovative thinking about urban futures, and he has produced many challenging and imaginative books. Disappearing Cities continues this tradition.  It is an imaginative work and a wonderful addition to the emerging genre of design fiction as a hybrid of fact and fiction, with echoes of Italo Cavino’s masterful volume, Invisible Cities.""— John Handmer ‘Disappearing Cities by Tony Fry is an essential read. It timely reveals how urban centres are vanishing due to natural forces, climate change and human conflict. This book underscores escalating global risks, urging us to mobilise imagination for urgent, life-affirming action.’ — David Palazón, Climate Change Content Producer, UNICEF Pakistan  ‘Disappearing Cities is compelling reading that encourages deep reflection. Through a diverse range of short stories, Tony Fry takes the reader to entirely imaginable places, experiencing potentially avoidable devastation. These tales paint a bleak picture of our world’s future, but in doing so hope to inspire societal action now.’ —  Jeremy Mather, ACT 2318 NSW 9349, RAIA, RIBA, Director, Mather Architecture  ‘What is the opposite of fantasy? What is fiction that helps you face pressing situations – not personal ones, but collective ones, the experiences some of us have already lived through, the unsettling we are all going to have to deal with? Disappearing Cities is this kind of reading .’ — Cameron Tonkinwise, Professor of Design Studies, the University of Technology Sydney

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Tony Fry is a writer, a design philosopher, an award-winning designer, an adjunct professor at the University of Tasmania and a visiting professor at the University of Ibague (Colombia).

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