One of the premier writers of thinky sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “The Ministry for the Future” with an all too plausible scenario: a lethal heat wave descends on India, with vast, ...

A new book by a UB historian examines the largely unexplored ways in which utopian thinking became a model for civil rights activists and provided the foundation for a worldview that informed the work ...

Robert Hammond and Joshua David of Friends of the High Line will present at this year’s Utopian Hours festival (Elizabeth Villalta/Unsplash) Titled The 1,000-Minute City—a play on the New Urbanist ...

From the neon-drenched noir of Altered Carbon to the technophobic Black Mirror, dystopia is all over mainstream entertainment these days—and considering the current political climate, it’s easy to see ...

Off the coast of Korea, a utopian new city is rising. New Songdo City, which is slated to be finished in 2015, is the most expensive private real estate venture in the world. The city is being built ...

A society without utopian visions breeds a present mired in despair. In the absence of shared dreams, only disillusionment—along with anger, alienation and animosity—remains. The decline of utopian ...

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