Act 1 music The scenery changes as we

The scenery changes as we sail from busy port to icy Arctic

garbage hermetically sealed in landfills

the families abandon it

Mirishahe Syla

Act 1 music The scenery changes as weWhat role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings together commissioned writing in fiction and non fiction, moregraphic stories, illustrations, and interviews, narrating buildings, housing estates, and cities, between utopias and dystopias, through imagination, dreaming, magic, games and concrete realities,