Prototype Cities in the Sea

Kaji-O'Grady, S; Raisbeck, P

Prototype Cities in the Sea

Kaji-O'Grady, S Raisbeck, P

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Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Kaji-O'Grady Sandra and Raisbeck P 2005, 'Prototype Cities in the Sea', Routledge, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 443-461.
Issue Date:: 2005

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dc.contributor.author	Kaji-O'Grady, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Raisbeck, P	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-20T13:01:12Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-20T13:01:12Z
dc.date.issued	2005	en_US
dc.identifier	2005002075	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Kaji-O'Grady Sandra and Raisbeck P 2005, 'Prototype Cities in the Sea', Routledge, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 443-461.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1360-2365	en_US
dc.identifier.other	C1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/839
dc.description.abstract	This paper reviews the ambitions and importance of design proposals for inhabiting the sea from the 1960s and 1970s. Critics in subsequent decades dismissed projects for the sea as irrelevant utopias and technological fantasies. While the unique marine environment and the new city were sometimes taken up as opportunities for social and formal experiment, there are many technically resolved projects considered by architects and developers alike as viable alternatives to terrestrial cities. This paper argues that architects adopted technologies from the exploration, fishing, military and mining industries towards solving what were widely perceived as threats to human existence. Neither in ambition nor detail were these projects futuristic fantasies. They were, rather, prototypes, a model this paper uses to examine a wide variety of projects, raising questions about the validity of their testing and the reasons for their failure to flourish. Using current proposals for new cities in the sea, shifts in attitude towards community and technology are traced.	en_US
dc.publisher	Routledge	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	The Journal of Architecture	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602360500285641	en_US
dc.title	Prototype Cities in the Sea	en_US
dc.type	Journal article
utslib.citation.volume	10	en_US
utslib.citation.number	4	en_US
utslib.location	Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK	en_US
utslib.citation.startpage	443	en_US
utslib.citation.endpage	461	en_US
utslib.identifier.org	School of Architecture	en_US
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This paper reviews the ambitions and importance of design proposals for inhabiting the sea from the 1960s and 1970s. Critics in subsequent decades dismissed projects for the sea as irrelevant utopias and technological fantasies. While the unique marine environment and the new city were sometimes taken up as opportunities for social and formal experiment, there are many technically resolved projects considered by architects and developers alike as viable alternatives to terrestrial cities. This paper argues that architects adopted technologies from the exploration, fishing, military and mining industries towards solving what were widely perceived as threats to human existence. Neither in ambition nor detail were these projects futuristic fantasies. They were, rather, prototypes, a model this paper uses to examine a wide variety of projects, raising questions about the validity of their testing and the reasons for their failure to flourish. Using current proposals for new cities in the sea, shifts in attitude towards community and technology are traced.

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