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glass building development in desert landscape

Behind The Line

The visions for NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s linear megacity in the desert, reveal contemporary shortcomings more than a future utopia

August 5, 2022

Snowy ski mountain with building renderings and skiers.

Activating the Urbane Village

Architects and designers redefine the ski town in a tech-utopian Utah community

January 7, 2020

A rendering of the proposed Smart City master plan, The Orbit, by architecture firm Partisans

Time is a Flat Squircle

Canada gives utopia a chance with The Orbit

January 6, 2020

Vermont’s Mormon future city called off after preservationists sound the alarm

June 28, 2018

Zero Work Future

As the American Dream dies, we must rethink our communities

April 18, 2017

What does “radical urbanism” mean today?

April 12, 2017

Utopia by Design

Highlights from London’s first ever Design Biennale

September 23, 2016

"A Journey Through Populated Ruins"

A new documentary—now being crowdfunded—explores the fate of a British “New Town” utopia

August 30, 2016

A massive utopian city based on Mormon planning principles could be realized in Vermont

July 22, 2016

34 Nations to submit works for the Inaugural 2016 London Design Biennale

April 1, 2016

City in China Disappears Overnight

October 13, 2011

Quick Clicks> Disaster Prone, Earthquake Averse, and the Melancholy Utopia

August 31, 2011

Video> Proposed Utopian City Moves Like Clockwork

July 15, 2011

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