Road to Shangri-La
THE ECOTOPIA 2121 PROJECT PREDICTS AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF 100 REAL WORLD CITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE. TODAY, WE INVESTIGATE THE FUTURE OF THIMPHU. Thimphu is the capital city of Bhutan, a small Himalayan kingdom wedged between India and Tibet. In the late twentieth century, Bhutan tried to give up on 'Gross Domestic Product', or GDP, as the primary measure of the nation’s well-being and replaced it with a thing called 'Gross National Happiness', or GNH. The four pillars of G
Frankenstein and Climate Change
The Ecotopia 2121 project sets out to predict the super-ecofriendly futures of 100 real world cities across the globe, as inspired by Thomas More's book of "Utopia". The 'evil twin' of the Ecotopia 2121 project is the Frankencities project, which sets out to predict the worst-case eco-disastrous cities of the future as inspired by Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Both the Ecotopia 2121 project and the Frankencities project utilize a novel method of urban planning called The
