His head eventually ended on a pike on the London Bridge. Eventually, Thomas More had angered Henry VIII one too many times about the need to obey the dictates of the Pope in Rome. This probably explains why he published the book in the Latin language, in Belgium. Other historians believe Utopia was just a parody of life in England under King Henry VIII. These included stories about the social forms of American native tribes. Some historians believe Thomas More’s Utopia was inspired by European explorers, like Christopher Columbus and Vespucci Amerigo, who brought back tales from the New World. The artwork is then interpreted through 100 original stories that detail each city’s transformation into a super-ecofriendly utopia by the year 2121. Ecotopia 2121 is a graphic artwork exhibition of 100 future Green cities from around the world. The exact publication date of Utopia is not precisely known but it was sometime in the late autumn of 1516. In celebration of its half-millennium birthday, the book Ecotopia 2121, will be released exactly 500 years after More’s Utopia was published. Thomas More, an English statesman, published his book ‘Utopia’ about a mysterious and faraway ideal island-nation. This year, 2016, marks the 500th anniversary of an iconic idea-that of utopia. Imagining how our cities will evolve in the 22nd century gives food for thought on their sustainability
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