Future Cities - In Conversation with Dr Davina Jackson

Buckminster Fuller’s ideas anticipating a Digital Earth inform the latest Five Books discussion on architecture.

We are a city-dwelling species. Our urban existence creates both opportunities and challenges, as the recent pandemic has illustrated. One thing seems clear, however. Understanding the way we interact with our built environment is becoming an increasingly data-driven enterprise, as Davina Jackson argues compellingly in her book, Data Cities. Here, the author who coined the phrase ‘Viral Internationalism’ to describe the transfer of architectural ideas across cultures shares the five books that best explain the technology behind the urban planning of the future. Read more here: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/future-cities-davina-jackson/