Future Cities: Homes & Living into the 21st Century

by Kenneth W. Gatland, David Jefferis

Book by Kenneth William Gatland, David Jefferis

Genres: Childrens, Nonfiction

32 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1979

Reviews

[Ninja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written in 1979, it's a picture filled look at the next 120 years in general habitation, starting off with a quick overview of where we've come from. It also covers things like wrist watches with audio and video, transport, cities on earth, cities on the moon and other planets.
It's ... ambitious. Household robots in the 80s, with the 90s bringing holographic people for conferencing and underwater cities and replicators for things like food. 2020 doesn't mention pandemics but the Olympics on the moon in Armstrong city.

[Ed Look · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a child this book sparked my interest in science fiction.

[Sean McDonald · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got all four in the series for my 16th (?) birthday and I adored them immediately. The ship and vehicle designs were so viscerally functional, no poncey fantasy spaceships, all flowing wings and swirling airy fairy nonsense: those ships PUNCHED air aside and I loved them. The illustrations were beautiful and full of detail, the optimistic sense of a bright, technological but still positive and exciting future was contagious because of COURSE we will have Moon bases in forty years because my god, forty years is SOOOOO LONG and we can do so MUCH . . . . .Where the hell did that exciting future go because now it's just billionaire nazi sympathisers, ignorant rednecks with no critical thinking skills and everything, even the things we thought and were ASSURED wouldn't be out of our reach are being squeezed for every penny and prices KEEP RISING!!

Today, this day, the future is just bleak, expensive and not mine to reach for anymore . . .what the f*** happened ???

[Dan Goodman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the stories were mildly interesting.