Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M
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卡爾•阿博特從事城市研究與城市規劃的教學工作已達五十年之久。在本書中，他把城市研究與文學研究兩大領域結合，深入探究了E. M. 福斯特、艾薩克•阿西莫夫、金•斯坦利•羅賓遜和柴納•米耶維這些風格迥異的科幻小說作家在其作品中虛構出來的城市，指出它們有助於我們對一種充滿活力與恢復力的城市未來加以展望。《未來之城：科幻小說中的城市》是一部不同凡響的著作，論述了當前城市理論和城市實踐的精華及其最鮮明特色，
