Art, science and urban planning: from the modern techno-logical utopia to the more-than-human city
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https://doi.org/10.22530/ayc.2025.27.762Keywords:
ecological art, urbanism, posthumanism, political ecology, urban natureAbstract
Urban expansion is an important factor leading to the unbecoming that we call Anthropocene. The urbanization has articulated the relationship between citizens, technology, and nature in different ways, from considering nature as a model for the rational design of the inhabited space by the first thinkers of urban planning, to the discovery of the generative capacity of diversity in the 1970s and the current proposal of an interspecific city. In all these proposals, art has experimented and contributed to give form to these relationships.
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