About Strange Cities

There are a number of cities that are planned, but never turned into reality. The whole idea staid in the heads of their “creators” or plans. From Hitler's Reich capital to the Amazon Utopia of Henry Ford, we have made a list off towns that was never realized.

Richard Buckminster Fuller wanted to take advantage of the fact that three quarters of our planet is covered with water, so he wanted to make organic cities that floated on the water. The idea was to build a floating city that would be made up of a series of stacked tetrahedral structures that would be embedded as a whole. Originally, for the project of self-sustaining city on the water in the Tokyo bay, he was hired a Japanese businessman. The name of this never realized city was Triton City

When he died, the US government asked Fuller to further develop the idea. However, it never turned into action.

Adolf Hitler had a complete plan to change the look of Berlin after World War II. Al these projects stopped after defeat of Nazis.

The project was officially called "Comprehensive plan of building capital of the world" was entrusted to the architect Albert Speer, and Hitler had the idea to call this city Germany.

Although some minor things were done according to the plan, such as the relocation of the Berlin Winning statue, the other ambitious projects never started. For a huge stadium that was supposed to receive 400,000 visitors, were excavated only foundations.

Frank Lloyd Wright's idea was actually the antithesis of the classic city. He wanted to give to every American family 4000 square meters of the federal estate on which the cars would have priority to pedestrians, except in limited areas.

The plan was first introduced in the book "The city that disappeared" in 1932, and three years later he made the model that is presented in the "Rockefeller Center". The idea was developed until his death in 1959, believing that providing enough space for families would resolve many social problems.

Like other wealthy Nazis, and Walt Disney wanted to show the world how people should live. He prepared so called Project X, officially known as experimental prototype community of the future.

Disney's plan was to create the ideal community on a piece of land in Orlando. The idea was put aside in 1966, and the land is used for Disney World, which opened in 1971.