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<p>In <a href="https://www.design.upenn.edu/post/excerpt-richard-weller-grand-tour" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century</a>, <a href="https://www.design.upenn.edu/people/richard-weller" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Richard Weller</a>, Professor Emeritus and Co-Founder of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania, has condensed a sprawling subject into a compact field guide to 120 of the most significant 21st century objects, from bulldozers to Biosphere II. Call it dystopian, call it optimistic. Just don’t call it “anthroporn.” </p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hyperobjects" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World</a>, by Timothy Morton</p><p>Utopias (and Utopia’s Evil Twins)</p><p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwyn_Garden_City" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Welwyn Garden City</a></p><p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandigarh" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Chandigarh</a></p><p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Burning Man</a></p><p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epcot" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">EPCOT</a></p><p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Pruitt-Igoe</a></p><p> WalmartSupercenter</p><p>Machines:</p><p>Bulldozers + polymetric nodules</p><p>Fish farms</p><p>Solar arrays</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_engine" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sand motor</a> + littoral drift</p><p>Tree-planting drones</p><p>Monsters:</p><p> Geo-engineering</p><p><a href="https://theworldpark.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The World Park Project</a> / UN Convention on Biological Diversity</p><p><a href="https://y2y.net/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Y2Y</a></p><p><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/banff-wildlife-crossings" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Banff Wildlife Crossings Project</a></p><p><a href="https://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Atlas for the End of the World</a></p>
