Within the Sixties, annoyed by the rising downside of city air pollution, Athelstan Spilhaus, a visionary scientist and futurist sketch author, assembled a staff of specialists to develop a daring experiment: the Minnesota Experimental Metropolis (MXC). MXC can be town of the long run, a domed metropolis for 250,000 pioneering residents, constructed from scratch and utilizing cutting-edge expertise to stop city sprawl and air pollution. Issues didn’t fairly go as deliberate, as explored in Chad Friedrichs’ fascinating look again on the would-be metropolis of tomorrow.
