The Art of Imagining Urban Futures

This project forecasts the futures of more than 1000 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

The future of Bethlehem

Slavoj Žižek’s Ljubljana ripens with age -- as a chaotic reality; weeds and all

The Ecotopia 2121 project employs numerous techniques to study the urban future; for example extrapolations from historical patterns or the anticipated role of new technologies. Another technique it employs is the “Literary Method of Urban Design” which uses literary works to predict likely urban scenarios of the future. At its simplest, this method comprises three steps: select a work of literature, select a city, use the themes of the selected work of literature to design

Toronto residents vote for eco-taxes!

Khartoum can draw on international partnerships and expertise to accelerate its sustainable development. Collaborations with global ecological engineering firms and urban sustainability experts can provide valuable insights and technological innovations tailored to the city's unique context

Buckle up—because Livorno didn’t fix its canals by polishing the past. It flipped the whole system upside down with radical Green techno-social chaos (in the best way).

Using the supremely optimistic forecasts of Utopian literature, this project details the best-case scenarios of the futures of real world cities across the globe. This month, we highlight the future of Los Angeles. During the 1940s and 1950s, the streetcar car lines of Los Angeles were systematically bought-up and then closed-down and dismantled by a group of conspiring auto companies led by General Motors Ltd. Los Angeles' defunct streetcars -- circa 1950 In the Los Angele

The future of Russian cities