Let’s go back to 1894. King Camp Gillette, his safety razor and fortune years in the future, had a plan. Everybody in America, all 60 million, would live in one supercity, which he called “Metropolis.” They would all be housed in identical high-rise buildings, powered by the inexhaustible hydropower of Niagara Falls. The city would replace Rochester.
It would focus on the triumph of cities and human civilization over natural limits, creating dense, distinct, and highly developed urban zones. ✓
it would feature practical, structural elegance and bold, intellectual planning over organic fractals or amorphous “green” shapes. ✓
And since Gillette was, at the time at least, a militant anti-trust campaigner, it would all be owned by the people, everybody in the world getting one of a billion shares.
Bold, rational thinking. Best of all, he put it down on paper with illustrations, detailed to the nth degree.
I wouldn’t mind a crazy utopia. Just show it to me.