“Touring Tomorrow Today”
My American friends Art & Lynn Shostak are working on a new book that they call “Touring Tomorrow Today”. It will highlight places around the globe where some aspect of a possible future – bright or harrowing – might be glimpsed by a perceptive and prepared traveller.
On the bright side, they are already writing about Arcosanti in Arizona. the solar park in Aero Island (the world’s largest), the Black Jewish colony in Demorra (Israel), the Eden Park in Cornwall, EPCOT in Florida, the Science City Museum outside of Paris, Christiana in Copenhagen, the Gaudi Area in Barcelona, the Bay of Fundi Power Plant in New Foundland, and many other such “preview” locations.
On the dark Side, they are writing about the House of Horror in Budapest, the Concentration Camp museums in Europe (and especially the Sculpture Area adjacent to Mauthausen in Austria,), the favellas in Rio, the Killing Fields Museum in Cambodia, the Dutch Floating Houses near Amsterdam, the city of Bagdad, the capital of North Korea, and many other such “warning sign” locations.
Can you suggest other such sites that they should research and include in the book? If so, please e-mail them at shostaka@drexel.edu