Dear Gareth,
Assuming eschatology rather than (just) dystopia, you should certainly try
'The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New
York's Destruction by M Page, which came out last year.
Phil
On Mar 31 2009, Gareth Rice wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
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> I wonder if any of you could recommend some good refs regarding
> 'Eschatopolis'. My aim is to stretch the urban dystopia literature as far
> as I can. So far I have been ploughing through the work of Mike Davis and
> the L.A. school in general, Adrian Atkinson's 'cities after oil'
> triptych, John Gray's 'Black Mass' and the 2002 theme issue of
> Geografiska Annaler on 'The Spaces of Utopia and Dystopia'. While I plan
> to stick with non-fiction I also found J. G. Ballard's unsettling novel
> 'Hello America' to be particularly insightful.
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> The refs will primarily be for teaching purposes but I also want to write
> something in the spirit of Dolores Hayden's 'What Would a Non-Sexist City
> Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work'. From the
> refs. you suggest I want to ask what would 'Eschatopolis' be like? Have
> geographers had a bash at envisioning this and if so what parameters have
> been used? What parameters would you suggest otherwise?
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>Thank you and apologies in advance for such a morbid post!
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>Gareth
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