The Routledge companion to urban imaginaries Introduction Part I: Eco and resilient Thirsty cities Rapid adaptation and mitigation planning Urban nature and the ecological imaginary Litter and the urban imaginary IHM agining sustainability Formal encounters in two tales of toxicity Part II: Smart and digital Smart urban The origin of the smart city imaginary Construction performance Authoritarianism and the transparent smart city Digital urban imaginaries Urban exposure Every breath you take Part III: Connected and consuming Imagining the open city Beyond east meets west Toward a photographic urbanism Macaus materialist milieu Like diamonds in the sky The city on the highway revisited Uneven and divided Brutalism ruins and the urban imaginary of gentrification The end of the time of the city Chicano Parks urban imaginary Arts districts and the reimagining of neighborhood through arts and culture based development Jia Zhangkes cinematic vision of urban dystopia in contemporary China ICONi©Cities Imagining the entitled middle class self in the global city Part V: Speculative and transformative Urban imaginaries and the palimpsest of the future Emergent imaginaries Queer urban imaginaries Crafted imagination Urban space and the posthuman imaginary.