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A look back at the 60's "Minnesota Experimental City", the brainchild of South African futurist Athelstan Spilhaus
In proposing his prototype 21st-century city, Spilhaus correctly diagnosed many of the shortcomings of the 20th-century one. He cottoned on early to concepts such as air pollution, even speculating that it was changing the Earth’s atmosphere.
— The Guardian
The Minnesota Experimental City has been documented in the film The Experimental City. Watch the trailer below...
The Experimental City is a documentary about the Minnesota Experimental City project, a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.
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Very interesting movie, it opened the AFFR (Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam) this year. I had never heard of Spilhaus or The Experimental City before, and really wonder why.
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