Embark upon an evocative and challenging journey across the globe, through time and space, and into an enchanting and imaginative eco-future.
The Book
The Ecotopia 2121 book was published by Skyhorse Publishers (NY) in landscape format on the 500th birthday of Thomas More's original Utopia book.
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PRAISE:
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"This is an impressive and monumental work"
Luc Hens, Int. Journ. of Environment & Pollution
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"Very few academics ever produce anything as stunning and imaginative as this."
Times Higher Education
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"Alan Marshall has produced a masterpiece with 'Ecotopia 2121'. It is an inspirational narrative of artistic vision, critical scholarship, ecological imagination and wisdom."
Dr. Jennifer M. Gidley, President,
World Futures Studies Federation
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"A curious and creative volume that should interest and entertain urban planners and policy-makers."
Publishers Weekly
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"Like William Morris's 'News from Nowhere', 'Ecotopia 2121' combines rational thought with imagination and that is where its power and persuasiveness lie."
John Blewitt, Aston Business School
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"One of the strangest books that I've ever reviewed ... quirky ...beautiful ... and like all good utopian stories, there are some darker reflections."
Brian Clegg, Popular Science
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"Beautifully illustrated with 100 images of what the future might entail, it is a coffee-table book calling for revolution"
Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine
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The Ecotopia 2121 book is a gigantic gallery of 100 cityscapes designed via 'scenario artwork'. The story of each city is then described through a narrative that details their transformation into an ecofriendly utopia. Ecotopia 2121 is radical in imagination and radically Green; a manifesto to engage the Anthropocene, to survive the climate crisis, and to prosper in a new ecological age.
You can order Ecotopia 2121 from all the usual outlets; online and in real bookstores.
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AWARDS
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Ecotopia 2121 is the winner of the 'Future Forecasts' category at the 2016 Green Book Festival.
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The Ecotopia 2121 Project, the master-class seminar at Mahidol University, was the winner of the 2015 Kenneth M. Roemer Award for Innovation in Course Design.
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Ecotopia 2121 won a Silver Medal in the 2017 Nautilus Awards in the photography/artwork section.
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Moving even further into the future, the project coordinator has also engaged a science fiction approach to predicting what life will be like in the year 3001AD. See this podcast below for the results.
