This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the new concept of ‘Advanced City’. Coined by the author, this new urban thinking should lead towards new directions of urbanism and urban sustainability. More than a theoretical construct, the advanced city represents a necessary shift in how we envision, plan, and inhabit urban futures. It is a call to reorient urbanism away from outdated models and toward pathways grounded in equity, responsibility, and long-term resilience. Beyond introducing this concept, the book explores the ideals of an advanced city and the foundations of an advanced society. These are proposed in response to the current age—and the potentially misguided years ahead—when we see no cure to our enduring obsession with fossil fuels, no reduction in the number of climate change deniers, and no end to selection and implementation of economically-justified and eristic directions for the so-called future development. Thus, this is not a vision of technological supremacy (or technologically advanced approach) or digital utopianism, as we already have. Rather, it is an urgent appeal for a more human-centered and ethically grounded approach to urban advancement, one that prioritizes saving humanity today over replacing it with machines tomorrow.

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A New Thinking: The Idea of Advanced City Thinking

  • Ali Cheshmehzangi

摘要

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the new concept of ‘Advanced City’. Coined by the author, this new urban thinking should lead towards new directions of urbanism and urban sustainability. More than a theoretical construct, the advanced city represents a necessary shift in how we envision, plan, and inhabit urban futures. It is a call to reorient urbanism away from outdated models and toward pathways grounded in equity, responsibility, and long-term resilience. Beyond introducing this concept, the book explores the ideals of an advanced city and the foundations of an advanced society. These are proposed in response to the current age—and the potentially misguided years ahead—when we see no cure to our enduring obsession with fossil fuels, no reduction in the number of climate change deniers, and no end to selection and implementation of economically-justified and eristic directions for the so-called future development. Thus, this is not a vision of technological supremacy (or technologically advanced approach) or digital utopianism, as we already have. Rather, it is an urgent appeal for a more human-centered and ethically grounded approach to urban advancement, one that prioritizes saving humanity today over replacing it with machines tomorrow.