British cars on the road to nowhere...

This Project details the future of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all environmental challenges and become...

THIS PROJECT DETAILS THE GREEN UTOPIAN FUTURES OF THOUSANDS OF REAL WORLD CITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE -- 100 YEARS FROM NOW. THIS WEEK, WE FEATURE THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN CITY OF SANTIEGO. Santiago is a city of five million at the foot of the Chilean Andes. Just outside the city limits is a copper mine. The mine releases a slow trickle of sulfuric acid and arsenic into the outer neighborhoods of Santiago. The residents have kicked up a fuss for years, saying this toxic s

The Art of Imagining Urban Futures

The Ecotopia 2121 project employs numerous techniques to study the urban future; for example extrapolations from historical patterns or...

The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of thousands of 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 Bastia. Bastia is the major port of the French island of Corsica. In 1972, an Italian company dumped toxic waste off the Corsican coast creating a grotesque red mud around the island and causing dead porpoises to be w