The Ecotopia 2121 project looks at the urban futures of 100 cities around the world. This month, we will try to foretell the future of the city of Wolverhampton, England. Mordor, the hellish deeply industrialized mining zone of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings novels is inspired by a real place: Wolverhampton, a city in the Midlands of England. Wolverhampton was the first city of the Industrial Revolution. It was in Wolverhampton in the late eighteenth century that the steam engin

The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all environmental challenges and become super-ecofriendly Green Utopian cities. This month, we highlight Sydney's future. Sydney is regularly voted one of the top ‘most livable cities’ in the world. However, the environmental problems of this most livable city are rife and they are getting worse with every passing year. Wildfires, droughts, flashfloods, dust storms,