Publication: Ecotopia 2121: Car-freeCities of the 22nd Century
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2015
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eng
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Mahidol University
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Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies. Mahidol University
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Environment and Natural Resources Journal. Vol.13, No.1 (2015), 28-38
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Marshall, Alan Ecotopia 2121: Car-freeCities of the 22nd Century. Environment and Natural Resources Journal. Vol.13, No.1 (2015), 28-38. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/3166
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EnNRJ Vol. 13 No. 1
(2015)
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Ecotopia 2121: Car-freeCities of the 22nd Century
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Abstract
The long-term futures of five cities from around the planet are outlined with the use of one
visual image for each city. These cities are : Abu Dhabi(UAE), Denver(USA), Sao Paulo(Brazil), San
Diego(USA), and Perth(Australia). These city’s futures are presented in ‘eco-utopian’ terms in
which each city studied is proffered to operate within some sort of planned (or naturally-achieved)
peaceful, happy and communally-desirable setting that exists in socio-ecological harmony (that is,
harmony between society, people, and the environment). The central common feature investigated
for all these cities of the future are their ‘car-free’ or ‘car-less’ character. In the spirit of previous
idealistic imaginings by writers and artists that have worked on formulating utopias in decades and
centuries past, some explanation about how each city can get to this eco-utopian status(by the year
2121AD) is declared, along with an explanation about the social, technical, and economic
background that may be present then and there.