The Silicon Valley tycoons planning to create a utopia city in California could start building this year, despite strong opposition from thousands of angry locals. A group of billionaires have ...
A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a 'green city' for up to 400,000 people on farmland in the San Francisco Bay Area has been put on hold in an embarrassing reversal. The city would have ...
This sort of utopia, of which Plato's Republic is the best known example, requires that the individual must offer much of his freedom for the privilege of living in the heavenly city and pursuing the ...
Boris Johnson’s project to build a bridge across the Thames ended in misery, with millions of taxpayer pounds wasted. The Garden Bridge was imagined by Joanna Lumley in 1998 as a “floating ...
His “city of art” houses both his home and his foundation in a former woollen mill on the banks of the Cervo river. It is also something of a utopian experiment. Its mission? To “inspire and ...
Guided by Vitruvius’s treatise, Italian thinkers, artists and architects developed their own conception of an ideal city – città ideale. Among them were, for instance, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio ...