From the editor

摘要

There is a striking image of a future city doing the rounds just now on social media. It's called London 2026 AD; This is all in the air and was designed by Montague Black for a London Underground poster published in 1926. LondonTransport Museum curator Claire Dobbin describes it as 'fanciful'. She's not wrong. In Black's poster, transport has taken to the air, there's an airport at London Bridge and an underground line to Scotland. The skyline too, is peppered with tall buildings. OK, that's not fanciful; it's bang-on. But in 1926 it didn't take a genius to divine that New York was the template for the cities of the future, so no special prizes for Montague Black from me.