Peter Ekman

Det goda åldrandet är något av en klassiker med sina 25 kapitel om människan och den åldrande kroppen. Det är ingen sjukdomsbok utan en "friskhetssamling" texter, skrivna av Karolinska sjukhusets främsta överläkare och professorer om alla viktiga medicinska områden. Syftet med boken är att helt enkelt ge en bild av vad som naturligt sker i kroppen allteftersom livet framskrider. Förslitning är naturligt, viss stelhet likaså, håret förändras, själva konstitutionen ändrar karaktär. En glidande förändring sker hela tiden utan att det innebär sjukdom. Den nya upplagan har kompletterats med flera nyskrivna kapitel, t.ex. om kostens betydelse och om vad som sker av mer psykologisk/mental natur. Boken är illustrerad. Dan Bagger-Sjöbäck, bokens redaktör, är professor med specialitet öron-näsa-hals och bokens initiativtagare. Han har likaså bidragit med en nyskriven inledning och ett förord. Han är bosatt i Stockholm.

Timing the Future Metropolis—an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science—explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city. Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT. Through its sprawling programs of "organized research," its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela—Ciudad Guayana—the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. Timing the Future Metropolis ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come—and the consequences of deciding not to.

Timing the Future Metropolis—an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science—explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city. Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT. Through its sprawling programs of "organized research," its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela—Ciudad Guayana—the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. Timing the Future Metropolis ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come—and the consequences of deciding not to.