Abstract

AbstractAlthough presenting a utopian vision of socialist urbanisation and placemaking, French architect‐urbanist Tony Garnier's proposed Cité Industrielle, conceived in the years around 1900, was responding to imperatives that were vastly different from our present‐day context. Guest‐Editor Jane Burry examines its potential as a beneficial predecessor that may have some important lessons for us in our virtual, synthetic, technologically ubiquitous world. Equally she also sounds a ‘dystopic alert’. There are always two sides to the urban coin.

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