%0 Journal Article %A Pak, Chris %T Terraforming and the city %D 2016 %@ 2171-9594 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27357 %X Science fictional depictions of cities have explored a variety of utopian and dystopian modes of habitation and control that have fed into popular imagination regarding the shape of future societies. The intersection between terraforming, the adaptation of planetary landscapes, and the interfaces for these interventions into multiple environments (the city) have accrued new resonances in the contemporary context of climate change. This paper considers the relationshipbetween non-human nature and the city in narratives of terraforming from H.G. Wells’s "The Shape of Things to Come" (1933), the American pulp sf of the 1950s, Frederick Turner’s "Genesis" (1988) and Kim Stanley Robinson’s "Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars" (1992-1996). Exploring how the city relates to non-human nature in the form of the animal, bacteria and plants in these narratives, this paper raises questions about how the city as an interface with nature explores possible modes of habitation. What does this mean for a burgeoning sense of place that has begun to consider how such imagined habitations become spaces that are embedded in nature and thus reflect new conceptions of the human? %K Urbanism %K Town planning %K Science fiction %K Ecology %K Terraforming %K Geoengineering %K Urbanismo %K Planificación urbana %K Ciencia ficción %K Ecología %K Terraformación %K Geoingeniería %K Literatura %K Literature %K Medio ambiente %K Environmental science %~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala