Introduction

Abstract

In the following chapters, we describe the images of the future in words and numbers. Chapters 21–24 show the urban function and localization patterns from a bird’s eye view. The written descriptions are accompanied by city silhouettes and regional maps where the physical additions are positioned for each of the three urban structures. The six images of the future describe six different scenarios of the city and for urban life in the middle of the twenty-first century. In all scenarios the energy consumption per capita has been reduced to two-fifths of today’s and all of them use Stockholm as the base example. The images differ one from the other in dimensions of time and space.