Development plans in Egypt continue to be in full flow with the announcement of a new city, Jirian, as part of the government's megaproject development strategy. Built entirely on reclaimed land with a new canal, the plan hopes to promote employment and- #newcities
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Egypt unveils plan for new desert city in latest megaproject
Egypt on Sunday unveiled plans for a vast new urban development west of Cairo where a man-made channel of the River Nile will eventually wind through what was once arid desert.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Development plans in Egypt continue to be in full flow with the announcement of a new city, Jirian, as part of the government's megaproject development strategy. Built entirely on reclaimed land with a new canal, the plan hopes to promote employment and- #newcities
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While most artists work on releasing their next record or touring, Akon has marched to the beat of his own drum by developing a self-titled city in Senegal. Working alongside the government, the R&B artist is playing the design of Akon City by ear, drawing- #newcities
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Akon’s Wakanda, grazing goats and a crumbling crypto dream
RnB singer Akon is planning a Senegalese super-city running on cryptocurrency. But will it happen?
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October 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
While most artists work on releasing their next record or touring, Akon has marched to the beat of his own drum by developing a self-titled city in Senegal. Working alongside the government, the R&B artist is playing the design of Akon City by ear, drawing- #newcities
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Set as a crypto tax haven, Bitcoin City in El Salvador is President Nayib Bukele's next big project from his governmental plan to help stimulate the country's economic growth. With ambitions to include a major airport, the flipside of the coin reveals- #newcities
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‘They turned our home into a cemetery’: the high price of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City dream
Mangroves are being destroyed and residents displaced to make way for an airport to serve president Nayib Bukele’s vision of a tax-free economic hub
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October 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Set as a crypto tax haven, Bitcoin City in El Salvador is President Nayib Bukele's next big project from his governmental plan to help stimulate the country's economic growth. With ambitions to include a major airport, the flipside of the coin reveals- #newcities
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When Dutch architect Koen Olthuis first floated the idea of building a city on a lagoon in the Maldives, he received much scrutiny, but now, it's taking off! The firm Waterstudio, alongside developer Dutch Docklands, plan to tackle overpopulation and- #newcities
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Why I’m building a floating city in the Maldives
Koen Olthuis designed 200 floating villas for the super-rich in his native Netherlands. Now the architect has a bigger fish in his sights: a real-life Waterworld in south Asia
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October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
When Dutch architect Koen Olthuis first floated the idea of building a city on a lagoon in the Maldives, he received much scrutiny, but now, it's taking off! The firm Waterstudio, alongside developer Dutch Docklands, plan to tackle overpopulation and- #newcities
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Revolved around building a community around a GO Transit station near 6 Line and 20 Sideroad in Innisfil, Ontario, all eyes are on The Orbit, Canada's newest city project. The project shows Canada's attempt to enter the Global South's development orbit by- #newcities
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New Orbit development plans for Innisfil, Ont. revealed
Innisfil residents had the chance to learn more about the town's proposed Orbit project at a public meeting Wednesday evening.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Revolved around building a community around a GO Transit station near 6 Line and 20 Sideroad in Innisfil, Ontario, all eyes are on The Orbit, Canada's newest city project. The project shows Canada's attempt to enter the Global South's development orbit by- #newcities
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Bradfield City is flying high after coming one step closer to becoming Australia's first master planned city in over a century, with the construction of its first building. The development is part of a bigger idea to boost investment in the Western Sydney- #newcities
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A huge new city is being built in Sydney – the first major city to be built in Australia in more than 100 years
It will be home to 10,000 homes and a NYC-style Central Park, and the first building in the city has just opened.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Bradfield City is flying high after coming one step closer to becoming Australia's first master planned city in over a century, with the construction of its first building. The development is part of a bigger idea to boost investment in the Western Sydney- #newcities
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China is breaking new ground with Chengdu Future Science and Technology City, a site designed for innovation. The architectural firm currently in the lead, OMA, already plans to build university buildings, dorms, laboratories, and offices to establish the city- #newcities
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New ‘future city’ to rise in southwest China | CNN
Plans for a new “future city” in Chengdu features a design that will combine industry and technology with the pastoral beauty of the countryside.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
China is breaking new ground with Chengdu Future Science and Technology City, a site designed for innovation. The architectural firm currently in the lead, OMA, already plans to build university buildings, dorms, laboratories, and offices to establish the city- #newcities
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Idris Elba is back in the limelight after declaring plans for a new sustainable city running on wind power on Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone. Working alongside the grandson of a former Sierra Leonean president, Siaka Stevens, both figures have played a massive- #newcities
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Idris Elba 'dreams big' with Sierra Leone eco-city plan for Sherbro Island
The actor aims to regenerate an island off Sierra Leone and start the country’s first wind farm.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Idris Elba is back in the limelight after declaring plans for a new sustainable city running on wind power on Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone. Working alongside the grandson of a former Sierra Leonean president, Siaka Stevens, both figures have played a massive- #newcities
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Turkmenistan has a whole city, Arkadag, dedicated to putting its former president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, on a high horse. Built on the idea of being a futuristic all-electric city with exclusively white architecture, Arkadag notably features several- #newcities
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October 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Turkmenistan has a whole city, Arkadag, dedicated to putting its former president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, on a high horse. Built on the idea of being a futuristic all-electric city with exclusively white architecture, Arkadag notably features several- #newcities
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A new wave of homelessness emerges outside of Lagos following announcements to expand Eko Atlantic in Nigeria. The military has played a significant role in massively evicting low-income residents, often holding ancestral land connections, which has- #newcities
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Class divide: mass demolitions drive poor from valuable land in Lagos
People evicted from islands off Nigerian city say accusations of oil theft are smokescreen to clear land for development
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October 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
A new wave of homelessness emerges outside of Lagos following announcements to expand Eko Atlantic in Nigeria. The military has played a significant role in massively evicting low-income residents, often holding ancestral land connections, which has- #newcities
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Amidst ghost town accusations, the Chinese government has been working hard to bring Xiongan back to life using a handful of new policies. These include a new merit-based residency system to avoid urban sprawl and a pension scheme to retain benefits, as- #newcities
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Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life
It is both impressive and worrying
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October 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Amidst ghost town accusations, the Chinese government has been working hard to bring Xiongan back to life using a handful of new policies. These include a new merit-based residency system to avoid urban sprawl and a pension scheme to retain benefits, as- #newcities
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Billionaire Marc Lore is leaping into the development of Tesola, a new city project built on sand. The project's biggest selling point lies in its "people-first" design to ensure social equity, with the city's planning revolving around adapting to local- #newcities www.forbes.com/sites/narges...
Telosa: BIG’s Bold Vision For Sustainable, People-First Urban Living
Telosa, a visionary project by architect BIG and entrepreneur Marc Lore, is a carbon-neutral city in the American desert for 2050 with a focus on social equity.
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October 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Billionaire Marc Lore is leaping into the development of Tesola, a new city project built on sand. The project's biggest selling point lies in its "people-first" design to ensure social equity, with the city's planning revolving around adapting to local- #newcities www.forbes.com/sites/narges...
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia's new city project is "on the Line" of facing major financial problems. Priced at a whopping $1.5 trillion USD, the plan ambitiously proposed a 170 km tech-driven sustainable linear city. With new budget cuts, it's- #newcities
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End of the Line? Saudi Arabia ‘forced to scale back’ plans for desert megacity
Crown prince’s pet project was sold as a 105-mile-long city of the future, but finances may have led to a rethink
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October 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia's new city project is "on the Line" of facing major financial problems. Priced at a whopping $1.5 trillion USD, the plan ambitiously proposed a 170 km tech-driven sustainable linear city. With new budget cuts, it's- #newcities
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Investors received news wrapped in a bow when GIFT City finally overtook Mumbai as the largest financial hub in India. Using modern infrastructure and a tax-free label, the special economic zone has rapidly attracted global corporations and employees- #newcities
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India Finds Out How Hard It Is to Build a Finance Hub From Scratch
GIFT City has attracted global banks with tax breaks and modern infrastructure, but the vibrant community its planners promised remains far from reality.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Investors received news wrapped in a bow when GIFT City finally overtook Mumbai as the largest financial hub in India. Using modern infrastructure and a tax-free label, the special economic zone has rapidly attracted global corporations and employees- #newcities
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A new timber-based mixed-use neighbourhood project has come out of the woodwork just outside of Stockholm, Sweden. The developer, Atrium Ljungberg, claims that using engineered wood could help speed up the building process. The development could also have a- #newcities
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October 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A new timber-based mixed-use neighbourhood project has come out of the woodwork just outside of Stockholm, Sweden. The developer, Atrium Ljungberg, claims that using engineered wood could help speed up the building process. The development could also have a- #newcities
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After much criticism, the East Solano Plan has officially become a sinking ship. Instead, a new plan is to establish a shipbuilding hub in Solano County, with California Forever remaining at the helm. This turning point came about after several US- #newcities
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The controversial California city backed by tech elite has a new plan: boats
California Forever is back with a proposal that has some on board: using the land it owns to create a shipbuilding hub
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October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
After much criticism, the East Solano Plan has officially become a sinking ship. Instead, a new plan is to establish a shipbuilding hub in Solano County, with California Forever remaining at the helm. This turning point came about after several US- #newcities
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Hundreds of thousands of citizens cannot Kuw-ait any longer as the housing shortage continues to surge in severity. With responsibility for housing distribution historically placed in the hands of the state of Kuwait, recent policy changes now open the- #newcities
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Kuwait opens bidding for construction of three cities to ease housing crunch
Kuwait's government on Sunday invited local and international companies to take the first step in bidding for contracts as part of its plans to develop three new cities to help tackle a shortage of housing in the oil-rich country.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Hundreds of thousands of citizens cannot Kuw-ait any longer as the housing shortage continues to surge in severity. With responsibility for housing distribution historically placed in the hands of the state of Kuwait, recent policy changes now open the- #newcities
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Trump is going back to the future by announcing his plans to establish so-called "Freedom Cities." Characterized by vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles like those in the popular 60s cartoon The Jetsons, the 47th president of the United States plans to- #newcities
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Trump calls for contest to create futuristic ‘Freedom Cities’
The former president also wants to spark a wave of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Trump is going back to the future by announcing his plans to establish so-called "Freedom Cities." Characterized by vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles like those in the popular 60s cartoon The Jetsons, the 47th president of the United States plans to- #newcities
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After five years in the making, Toyota is one step closer to making Woven City a reality in Japan. Built at the base of Mount Fuji, the city has officially started testing its autonomous technology, which the automotive manufacturer claims will alter- #newcities
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Toyota Opens Woven City, its High-Tech ‘Living Laboratory’
Also today: Why US cities pay too much for transit buses, and HUD’s redlining retreat grants mortgage lenders a reprieve.
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September 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
After five years in the making, Toyota is one step closer to making Woven City a reality in Japan. Built at the base of Mount Fuji, the city has officially started testing its autonomous technology, which the automotive manufacturer claims will alter- #newcities
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Elon Musk's newest project is a little closer to Earth this time, with a recent election confirming Starbase as a new company town in Texas. Musk seemingly plans to expand the area's housing in nearby wetlands and establish commercial and educational- #newcities www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inside Starbase, Elon Musk’s New City
On Saturday, local residents who mostly work for Elon Musk’s rocket company voted to create an official city for themselves: Starbase, Texas.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Elon Musk's newest project is a little closer to Earth this time, with a recent election confirming Starbase as a new company town in Texas. Musk seemingly plans to expand the area's housing in nearby wetlands and establish commercial and educational- #newcities www.nytimes.com/interactive/...