There's something sad about a world in which the most fantastic buildings exist only in the imagination of movie set...

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There's something sad about a world in which the most fantastic buildings exist only in the imagination of movie set designers. Here's a gallery of the cities of an imagined future from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to the inundated Manhattan of Spielberg's AI. Back in the real world do we have to? we'll have to make do with bog-standard office blocks on the site of the World Trade Center.
Scifi city gallery