Cite Industrielle 4.0: Zoning for the Latest Revolution

Although presenting a utopian vision of socialist urbanisation and placemaking, French architect-urbanist Tony Garnier's proposed Cite Industrielle, conceived in the years around 1900, was responding to imperatives that were vastly different from our present-day context. Guest-Editor Jane Burry examines its potential as a beneficial predecessor that may have some important lessons for us in our virtual, synthetic, technologically ubiquitous world. Equally she also sounds a 'dystopic alert'. There are always two sides to the urban coin.