In 2121, only a few places in Europe remain certified GMO-free, and San Gimignano is one of them. Gene-tech companies don’t like to use the word mutant, but biologically that is what GMOs are. Here in San Gimignano 2121, strict biosecurity measures are in place so the mutants can hope to see the town’s pretty architecture only from another Tuscan hilltop, many miles away.

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

Urban aliens

Future Utopian cities

In this San Francisco of the future, almost every neighborhood transforms itself into a proud ‘self-grow’ eco-suburb (with intense social interaction based not on the exchange of goods and services but primarily on the exchange of ideas and experiences).

From Pittsburgh, PA, we recieved this announcement from the 2015 conference of the Society for Utopian Sudies: "This course was chosen by...