ABSTRACT
The chapter explores the imaginary visioning by using earlier utopian thoughts and visions as prisms for the contemporary mobility debate in order to get closer to new imaginaries of technologies, complex systems and cultural change. The chapter puts forward a central dimension to the development of modern societies, namely the development of cities and their systems of mobility creating growth and distributing activities. As such the theme is pivotal to contemporary social theory. Utopian thoughts about the future must engage with cities and mobilities in day and age marked by huge challenges to both urban development and mobility organization. CIAM was the acronym for the Congrs International d'Architecture Moderne consisting of 28 European architects with Le Corbusier as one of the founders. The organization was engaged in formalizing the architectural principles of modernity and was hugely influential. The CIAM planning doctrine was a concentration of principles for the functional city, later presented by Le Corbusier as the Athens Charter.
