ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a utopian vision for a flourishing future instead of one shaped by dearth and austerity. Taste and appetite in the construction of everyday life and the public imagination provide a key for understanding how conceptions of utopia can be rescued from abstraction and employed to effect real positive change in substantive landscapes. This essay explores the construction of the city as a landscape built of custom and desire, and how hopes for the sustainable city of the future must be something for which we might have an appetite, rather than a grey, austere one in which sacrifice is the only remaining mode of survival. An awareness of taste and its place in organizing civil society has implications for both architectural form and spatial practice, and some initial suggestions are offered for how the already existing utopian fragments in today’s cities may be knitted together.
