000003485 001__ 3485 000003485 005__ 20250829131009.0 000003485 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6082/uchicago.3485 000003485 041__ $$aeng 000003485 245__ $$aFuture Perfect: Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow 000003485 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000003485 269__ $$a2021-08 000003485 300__ $$a175 000003485 336__ $$aDissertation 000003485 502__ $$bPh.D. 000003485 520__ $$aThis dissertation asks what it means to frame climate change as a problem of urban design in a Scandinavian port city, and then locates that question within a genealogy of evolutionary thought. Through an ethnography of green infrastructure design and experience in the Danish Capital Region, it follows Copenhagen Municipality’s Climate Plan to build the world’s first carbon-neutral capital, and by extension, to shape a citizenry equipped to realize its promise. The dissertation is fundamentally concerned with material and discursive practices of future-making, and more broadly, ‘sustainable development’ in a city presently enacted as a green design prototype, as well as the situated practices required to advance its iteration. To that end it traces the cultural geometries and racialized imaginaries that delineate the Danish model through a detailed ethnographic rendering. As a performative artifact, the Danish model stages an interactive mockup of a fully optimizable urban future, from climate-adapted districts and the green transit systems connecting them right up to and including perfected people. In this ‘future-proof’ built environment, human inhabitants appear as design objects themselves, physically sculpted and spatially sorted via a reproductive geography of imagination and management. Most simply, Future Perfect argues that the aspirational project of prototyping Copenhagen—the iteration of a seamless city, populated by perfected people and objects—can be grasped as a contemporary expression of eugenic ideology. 000003485 542__ $$fUniversity of Chicago dissertations are covered by copyright. 000003485 650__ $$aCultural anthropology 000003485 650__ $$aDesign 000003485 650__ $$aUrban planning 000003485 653__ $$adesign 000003485 653__ $$aenvironment 000003485 653__ $$aeugenics 000003485 653__ $$afuturity 000003485 653__ $$ainfrastructure 000003485 653__ $$aurbanity 000003485 690__ $$aSocial Sciences Division 000003485 691__ $$aAnthropology 000003485 7001_ $$aJourney, Rebecca Kate$$uUniversity of Chicago 000003485 72012 $$aJoseph P. Masco 000003485 72012 $$aMichael Fisch 000003485 72014 $$aCatherine K. Fennell 000003485 72014 $$aHussein A. Agrama 000003485 8564_ $$95e004d65-5945-4e34-bcc0-536ec6d30198$$s4035291$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3485/files/Journey_uchicago_0330D_16021.pdf$$eEmbargo (2023-09-21) 000003485 909CO $$ooai:uchicago.tind.io:3485$$pDissertations$$pGLOBAL_SET 000003485 983__ $$aDissertation