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Since the beginning of the twentieth-century, science fiction has had a field day painting the appearance of the cities of tomorrow, created to host tomorrow's heroes and their adventures. Based on the political regime, the aesthetic elements, the infrastructures, the communication means, the developmental processes, the role covered by technology, all the cities of the future described in science fiction can be grouped into ten macro-categories which reflect the culture, the aesthetics and the design of a given historical period: TotalVille, BetterVille, JoyVille, NetVille, TradeVille, FadeVille, HyperVille, iVille, PostVille and ShipVille.

AfterVille. The Underground Exhibition (Italian site) is a great exhibition in Turin, Italy which showcases those ten urban models, those ten imaginary capitals along an itinerary involving ten stations of the Turin Underground. All you need for visiting it is a metro ticket that you can use to move from one station to the next, to view all ten exhibition installations in succession.

The exhibition, which is bilingual, is conceived and curated by Michele Bortolami and Tommaso Del Mastro from Studio Undesign, together with Fabrizio Accatino and Massimo Teghille. It is an Off Congress Official Event of XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture Torino 2008. Here are the English display texts that go with each of the ten urban models.