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Abstract

The images produced by developers and real estate promoters constitute relatively homogeneous sets. Between commercial promise and optimistic prefiguration of future urban changes, they have little relationship with other contemporary discourses, fiction and imaginaries that are more worried, especially in terms of climate change. Borrowing from literary theory, and in particular from the theory that studies science-fiction and climate fiction, the article proposes other ways of reading these images that reveal more ambivalent or worrying aspects.

Keywords

• Image
• Climate
• Fiction
• Real Estate Development