{"id":17167,"date":"2015-09-12T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/better-than-blade-runner-re-imagining-our-cities"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:22:31","slug":"better-than-blade-runner-re-imagining-our-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/better-than-blade-runner-re-imagining-our-cities","title":{"rendered":"Better Than \u2018Blade Runner\u2019: Re-Imagining Our Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b__bwPBknvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Drawn to the Future<\/em>, a major exhibition on visualization technology featuring leading pioneers in architecture and engineering tech, highlights how our experience of our cities and buildings will rapidly change.<\/p>\n<p>Images of the city have always wielded psychological, emotional and political power. Anyone brought up on a diet of Hollywood movies and US TV shows will have had that uncanny experience as a first-time visitor to a US city \u2014 a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, the feeling of being on a movie set, in a story. I took the <em>Blade Runner<\/em> cityscape so seriously as a student in New York in 1983, that after a late-night showing of the film, I went into a phone box and rang the number dialed by Harrison Ford on the \u2018video screen\u2019 (555\u22127563 in case you\u2019re interested). The decay of Ridley Scott\u2019s dystopian future spilled over into the rodent-rich, un-gentrified, occasionally threatening Lower East Side of the time.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingcentre.co.uk\/exhibitions\/drawn-to-the-future\" target=\"_hplink\">Drawn to the Future<\/a><\/em> exhibition at The Building Centre in London, showcases the new image technologies used by architects and engineers, games makers and movie concept artists, to visualize future cities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/john-oreilly\/re-imagining-our-cities_b_8113520.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-tech&ir=UK+Tech\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawn to the Future, a major exhibition on visualization technology featuring leading pioneers in architecture and engineering tech, highlights how our experience of our cities and buildings will rapidly change. Images of the city have always wielded psychological, emotional and political power. Anyone brought up on a diet of Hollywood movies and US TV shows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,38,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-engineering","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45935,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167\/revisions\/45935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}