

The Reed City: How One Local Plant Could Help Münster Build More Homes and Beat the Floods
This project plans to forecast the future of the 10,000 cities across the globe -- as though they have survived climate change and social discord and gone on to flourish anew. Today, we highlight the future of Münster, Germany


East European Urban Futures -- Inspirations from Bulgarian Literature
This article explores the application of the Literary Method of Urban Design to three Bulgarian cities—Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo, and Ahtopol—by drawing upon local and national literary works to envision these cities future development.


Zurich - A Living Laboratory for Ecological Innovation
Future Zurich could become a living laboratory for ecological innovation, where native Swiss plants are used not just to beautify the city, but to transform its technology, infrastructure and social life.


Becoming Boston - The Urban Photosynthesis
This project plans to forecast the future of the 10,000 cities across the globe -- as though they have survived climate change and social discord and gone on to flourish anew. Today, we highlight the future of the American city of Boston, MA.


Franken-Petersburg -- When the Arctic Plague Returns
About ten years ago, as part of the Frankencities project, we imagined a future St Petersburg transformed by a combination of climate change, thawing permafrost, unstable ground and the return of diseases that had once been locked away in the frozen Arctic.


The Little Maple That Could Cool Grenoble.
Meet Acer monspessulanum, the Montpellier maple: a modest, drought-tolerant tree that could help Grenoble fight urban heat, bring shade to neglected streets and reconnect its built-up neighborhoods with the ecology of the surrounding region.


Multi-species Urbanism in Future Santa Cruz
After decades of climate instability, rising sea levels, and ecological collapse across California, the city abandoned the old idea that humans should dominate nature through endless urban expansion. Instead, Santa Cruz rebuilt itself around Haraway’s concept of multispecies coexistence, where humans, plants, animals, fungi, and technologies exist as interconnected partners within a living ecosystem


Krakow's Urban Grasslands: How Elephant Grass Could Help Europe Replace Plastic
This project plans to forecast the future of the 10,000 urban settings across the globe -- as though they have survived climate change and social discord and gone on to flourish anew. Today, we highlight the future of Krakow, Poland.


The Cooling Cascades of 22nd Century Casablanca
This project plans to forecast the future of the 10,000 urban settings across the globe -- as though they have survived climate change, global warfare, and social discord and evolved onward to flourish anew. Today, we publish a report from the future -- from a time traveler to 22nd century Morrocco...


Kharg Island as a 'Post-Oil' Green Utopia
Looking back, historians would say the partnership succeeded because it did not try to erase the past, but to respond to it. The wars, the sanctions, the cycles of suspicion had all revealed the limits of power built on control. By the time the oil ran low, both nations understood that survival—let alone prosperity—depended on something else entirely. On Kharg Island, that realization took physical form: sunlight captured and shared, knowledge exchanged without domination, an













