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.mheu, Historical Museum of the Urban Environment

Babel and Babylon

Aztec cities

Heavenly Jerusalem

The Fujian Tulou

Utopia

Romorantin, capital of a kingdom...

The city of brotherly love

Saint Petersburg, Peter's great city

Industry, socialism and utopia

Taking technology to new heights

Home sweet home

A towering challenge...

New towns

Conjuring capitals

Auroville: "divine anarchy"

Private cities

Dubai: miracle or mirage?

All eyes on the horizon

.Babel to Dubai: Urban Utopias

All eyes on the horizon

So what does tomorrow hold? Although the vast majority of the world's population will soon live in cities, what will these cities be like?

Network cities, in which the information highway will replace the need for actual travel or buildings, once and for all solving the issue of urban congestion? Walking cities, solving the problem of resources and connections? Cities in space, an age-old dream, for which the international space station (ISS) provides us with a foretaste? Or, quite simply, vegetal cities, turning on its head Alphonse Allais' old idea of "building cities in the country"?

1- Walking City on the Ocean, project

Ron Herron

Born in London in 1930, Ron Herron was a leading figure in the sixties avant-garde architectural movement Archigram. In 1964, he came up with the wild concept of a walking city, a nomadic, zoomorphic form of urban planning.

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2- Motherboard City

Fabien Coeur

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3- Floating Venera islands, cover of the Soviet magazine "Technology for young people"

Anonyme

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4- Vegetal City

Luc Schuiten

The Belgian architect Luc Schuiten is the brother of the graphic artist François Schuiten and the son of an architect. His work is highly individual, closely entwined with nature, hinging on a concept that he himself named Archiborescence. His idea involves using different types of living organism as building materials through research into biotechnology. He is currently working on a project for a utopian vegetal city made up of tree habitats.