The Art of Imagining Urban Futures

The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all the grave environmental challenges our age and grown to become super Green and super-ecofriendly. This month, we highlight the future of Perth, Australia. Some cities in the developed world are manicured to within an inch of life. They have precisely cultivated trees lining quiet sidewalks fed by impeccably timed water sprinklers. Perth, the capital of Western A

Bethlehem is a golden city -- golden in terms of spirituality. It is held to be the sacred birthplace of such divine figures as Lachama, the Canaanite God; David, the King of Israel, and Jesus Christ, the son of the Christian God. Control of Bethlehem has shifted around throughout its three-thousand year history. Once the domain of the Canaanites, then Judea, then Rome, then Persia, then an Arab Caliphate, then part of Egypt, then claimed by Christian crusaders, then the Otto