The future of Brazil

In the year 2121, the city of Luxembourg City looked less like a conventional capital and more like a living forest threaded with streets.

The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow become super-ecofriendly. This month, we highlight the future utopia of Katun in the Altai Mountains of Central Asia.

This project plans to forecast the future of the 10,000 urban settings across the world as though they have survived climate change and social discord and gone on to flourish anew. Today, we highlight the future of the British city of Manchester -- and how it started its long road of Green reform... If you ask anyone in Manchester in 2050 when it all started, it's history, they’ll say it was that daft February in 2026, when half of Gorton and Denton turned up in the rain, hel