Minnesota Experimental City: the 1960s town based on a comic strip (Link)

in #life7 years ago

It had cars on rails, 100% recycling and a nuclear power station in the centre, all covered by a massive dome. So what went wrong with Athelstan Spilhaus’s vision of the future?

Source: The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/05/minnesota-experimental-city-the-1960s-town-based-on-a-comic-strip

Let's just hope that today's Southafrican visionary with sci-fi name will not fail like Spilhaus (guess who?).

Our New Age comic strips by Athelstan Spilhaus, who designed the Minnesota Experimental City. Photograph: Unicorn Stencil Doc Films

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