Rural and hyper-connected: here is the ecovillage of the future

If we look back in time it’s certainly nothing new: from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City at the end of the nineteenth century, Frank Lloyd Wright Wright’s Living City in the 1960s, to Stefano Boeri’s present forest cities in China or his Smart Forest City in Mexico. The return to nature and low-density urban forms are comforting projections into the future, sometimes leading to utopia.