Sea City, 1968

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Pilkington Glass (still around, but owned by a Japanese conglomerate) was noted for their future-forward marketing in the Sixties and Seventies. This 1968 model by architectural model-maker John Thorp is of a proposed sea settlement to be placed off the Norfolk coast near Great Yarmouth. Population 30,000, with its own football stadium and zoo, and connected to the mainland by hovercraft ferry because it's the future.

In the modern day, essentially the same area is gearing up for an artificial island -- but this time the inhabitants are to be power-generating windmills.