

Building Utopia Upon A Rising Sea
The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all social and environmental problems to become super-ecofriendly. This week we highlight the future of Goa Velha. Goa is a former Portuguese colony on the Arabian Sea coast of India. In 1961 it was annexed to become a state within the Republic of India. The Portuguese legacy, though, is still noticeable in the architecture as well as in the large Catholic community


Como: Utopia in the Italian Alps
The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow solved all social and environmental problems to become super-ecofriendly. This month, we highlight the future of the Italian city of Como. Como is a city of 90,000 people located on the scenic shores of Lake Como in the northernmost province of Italy. It’s a very old city. Around the 1st Century BC it became subject to rule by Rome. At the time, the town center was situated