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Author: Alan Marshall
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint: Arcade Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 27.90cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 1.792kg
ISBN: 9781628726008
ISBN 10: 1628726008
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 20 October 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
This curious and creative volume on ecological utopias . . . will likely appeal to eco-conscious audiences keen on science fiction and utopian fantasies, and should interest and entertain urban planners and policy advisors, too.  Publishers Weekly  Beautiful and bold . . . Ecotopia 2121 pays great attention to detail and . . . presents what is most important as entertaining as well as educational. . . Very few academics ever produce anything as stunning and imaginative as this.  The Times Higher Education Alan Marshall has produced a masterpiece with Ecotopia 2121. I cannot imagine a better celebration of the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia than this innovative and provocative book. It is an inspirational narrative of artistic vision, critical scholarship, ecological imagination and wisdom. I can feel Alan Marshall has tangible, living knowledge of many of these cities and cares deeply about their futures. Ecotopia 2121 is a must-read for every architecture and urban planning student. Furthermore, a copy should take pride of place in every university design and planning department, urban planning office, and on the coffee tables of city mayors globally.  Jennifer M. Gidley, PhD, President, World Futures Studies Federation (UNESCO Partner), psychologist, educator, futures researcher, and author of The Future: A Very Short Introduction
Alan Marshall has produced a masterpiece with Ecotopia 2121. I cannot imagine a better celebration of the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia than this innovative and provocative book. It is an inspirational narrative of artistic vision, critical scholarship, ecological imagination and wisdom. I can feel Alan Marshall has tangible, living knowledge of many of these cities and cares deeply about their futures. Ecotopia 2121 is a must-read for every architecture and urban planning student. Furthermore, a copy should take pride of place in every university design and planning department, urban planning office, and on the coffee tables of city mayors globally. --Jennifer M. Gidley, PhD, President, World Futures Studies Federation (UNESCO Partner), psychologist, educator, futures researcher, and author of The Future: A Very Short Introduction
Author Information
Dr. Alan Marshall is a New Zealandborn scholar and award-winning teacher, with expertise and training in both ecology and the social study of technology. He is the author of dozens of academic papers as well as both nonfiction and fiction books, all of which deal with the relationship between humanity and nature in some way. He has won the Kenneth M. Roemer Innovative Course Design Award from the Utopian Studies Society and a Mark Time Silver Award for Best Science Fiction Audiodrama for writing and coproducing the radio play ""This Pointless Thing Called Life,"" broadcast in the US on NPR. He has lived and worked in some twenty-five different cities in ten countries around the world. He now teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, where he resides.
