Timing the Future Metropolis —an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science—explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban ‘crisis’ and ‘renewal, ‘ that set out to envision the future of the American city. Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT.
Through its sprawling programs of ‘organized research, ‘ its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela—Ciudad Guayana—the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. Timing the Future Metropolis ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come—and the consequences of deciding not to.
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Urban Times
Centers and Their Edges
The Atmosphere and the Network
‘Our Retrospection Will All Be to the Future’
‘A Documented Experience’
Reoriented
The Belated City
‘A Forward Signal’
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Peter Ekman teaches the history and theory of landscape and urbanism in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He is a postdoctoral fellow at USC’s Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life, and at the Berggruen Institute.
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