Utopias From The Progressive Paradigm Of The City: From The Early Twentieth Century Futurism To The Contemporary Smart City

Abstract

The progressive trend of urban planning has been the most influential throughout the recent history of this discipline. Over the years, several stakeholders have sought
to interpret how cities should and will evolve within this model. To this end, urban
planners, architects, artists, and even filmmakers have created multiple utopias that
have managed not only to represent their ideas, but also to influence the way in which
people conceive urban spaces and, to a certain extent, the development of cities
themselves. Based on this sort of ideas, this essay takes an analytical-descriptive
approach in chronological order through the main utopias and dystopias of the progressive model carried out since the birth of the urban discipline in the nineteenth century up to the present time through desk research of literature and other secondary sources of information.