An essay by Peter Marcuse has been featured on Sustainable Cities Collective website. The essay, “Future Cities: Re-imagining the City Critically”, is a look into what a future utopian city would look like. The essay prompts the reader to imagine a city where the essentially unnecessary is removed. What Marcuse delves into is the image of a city that is based on freely doing the necessary. He asks

…if a city could be fashioned for the purposes of the enjoyment of life, rather than for the purposes of the unwelcome but necessary activities involved in earning a living, what would that city be like?

This is the first installment of his essay. The second will be posted tomorrow, January 4, 2013. To read the complete essay, please click here.