A building in Songyang, China.
Photographer: Wang Ziling
The world of tomorrow tends toward grandiosity, at least in popular imagination.
From 1950s utopias with towering skyscrapers and flying cars, to 1980s dystopian mega cities like the one in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, to recent futurists’ designs of sprawling “green” metropolises, the one thing that everyone can agree on, it seems, is that the future is going to be full of heroic, monumental structures.
