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#newcities Konza Technopolis, Kenya's first smart city project has announced new financial partnerships with South Korea. They plan to grow the skilled workforce in Kenya, contributing to a growth of the electronics sector. Kenya even plans for KAIST, its-
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Konza Technopolis Boosts Growth with Strategic Partnerships Between Kenya and South Korea - Tech In Africa
Konza Technopolis, Kenya’s flagship smart city initiative, is experiencing a significant increase in partnerships with South Korean companies, marking a key milestone in its development. In June 2024,...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#newcities Lavasa, a known failed master-planned city may be getting a second chance. There are hopes that new investment will come in to try and revive the stalled project. I'm sure there are many people hoping that something works out; over 1000 unbuilt homes-
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Renewed Hope For Reviving Lavasa Through Fresh Bids
NCLT approving more time for revival talks and Extending CIRP by 90 days reflects renewed hope for reviving the project through fresh bids.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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#newcities Lusail City in Qatar is a recent example of a completed master-planned city. It was built for the World Cup in 2022, with the soccer stadium as its focal point. With high-tech cooling systems and light rail, it's been called a smart city.
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Lusail City of Qatar: Stage of the FIFA World Cup 2022
Lusail City, Qatar — a smart urban experiment with iconic architecture, integrated transit, and the stadium that hosted the 2022 World Cup final.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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#newcities Diamniadio Lake City is another barely-started futuristic city in Senegal. Like Akon City, it holds big promises, but for years, all that exists is billboards. The city is planned for 40km outside of Dakar, which is significantly overcrowded and lacking housing.
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Senegal is building a futuristic city to deal with its congestion problems
For the past four years, a huge building site has been greeting anyone driving into Dakar, Senegal’s capital. Sectioned right through the middle by the highway to the new Blaise Diagne international a...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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#newcities Beau Plan Smart City in Mauritius can be added to the list of lofty inspirations for smart cities in Africa. The project aims to be a modern smart city that will attract foreign investment. Notably, one of the focal points of Beau Plan would be MediaCity, a tech-

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Mauritius’ MediaCity hopes to succeed where other African smart cities have failed
A few months back, investors unveiled plans of setting up a global multimedia hub in the Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius. Touted as “Africa’s first integrated, international hub for the media and cre...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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#newcities Kuwait's Silk City plans are well underway! A Chinese firm has signed on to build the new Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port project on Bubiyan Island, a key feature of the Silk City masterplan. This is a strategic partnership as part of China's Belt-
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Kuwait inks deal with Chinese contractor to complete port - Global Construction Review
Kuwait has signed an agreement with China State Construction and Communications (CSCC) to work on completing the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port project, news agency Kuna reports.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#newcities One of the coolest (weirdest) cities I've seen yet is the proposed Pangeos, a floating turtle-shaped terayacht for 60 000 people! Designed by Italian firm Lazzarini Design Studio (Google them to see more wacky designs!), Pangeos would be a seasteader's-
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Watch: This Turtle-Shaped 1,800-Foot Terayacht Doubles as a Floating City for 60,000 People
Lazzarini Design Studio's new 1,800-foot terayacht concept Pangeos doubles as a floating city and could be built in eight years for $8 billion.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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#newcities "Net City" is a futuristic city (the size of Monaco!) that's planned for to be a city-within-a-city in Shenzen, China. The idea is that Net City will be a company town for Tencent, a popular tech messaging company in China. Not only offices, they plan to build

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Tencent is building a Monaco-sized ‘city of the future’ in Shenzhen | CNN
Technology giant Tencent has unveiled plans for an almost entirely car-free “city of the future” that prioritizes pedestrians, green spaces and self-driving vehicles.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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#newcities Oman should be revealing complete plans for its Central Park in Sultan Haitham City very soon. This new city project will reflect Oman's goals for enhanced quality of life and environmental sustainability. The city's central park sounds like it will be-
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Designs for Sultan Haitham City’s central park to be unveiled in October
Designs for the Central Park in Sultan Haitham City will be unveiled for the first time during the Home and Building Exhibition 2025, scheduled to be held from October 6 to 9 at the Oman Convention an...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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#newcities Morocco's Zenata Eco-City, which we looked at in class, is creating shiny, new, modern developments, with little concern for the many locals who are being displaced by construction. The new city hopes to cater to tourism, which has been on the rise-
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The hidden costs for locals behind Morocco's urban and tourist development
Morocco's heritage is being replaced with a new shiny 'foreigner-friendly' version that displaces communities while perturbing traditional livelihoods and the environment
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October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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#newcities Kigali Innovation City is set to turn Rwanda into a tech hub in Africa. The project is within a special economic zone and is inspired by Silicon Valley. The city hopes to draw home the Rwandan diaspora and students trained abroad to work in tech.-
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Kigali Innovation City : Rwanda, future leader in African innovation
The first stone of the highly anticipated Kigali Innovation City (KIC) has been laid, marking the beginning of a $2 billion project aimed...
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October 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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#newcities Dholera Smart City is "India’s flagship greenfield smart industrial city." I found this article interesting because it relates to urban policy mobilities. Japanese investors went on an official visit to review the city's plans and nurture their-
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Japan Envoy Leads Industry Visit to Dholera Smart City
Rs 1.54 trillion in semiconductor projects underway in Gujarat
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October 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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#newcities Kyrgyzstan is working on building Kemin, a new eco-city. The government's decree has housing provision as a key priority for the project, in hopes of retaining skilled professionals and increasing citizens' well-being. From what little I know about- globalflowcontrol.com/newsroom/kyr...
Kyrgyzstan Announces Plans to Develop an Eco-Friendly Smart City
The Kyrgyz government has announced plans to construct an environmentally friendly city in the Kemin region of Chui Oblast as part of its
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October 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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#newcities Abuja's Centenary City kicks off construction! The city is part of Abuja's grand "urban renewal" plan. The city will be full of luxury apartments, villas, golf courses, malls and estates. With the-

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Abuja Centenary City kicks off N750bn infrastructure development
After over a decade of delays, work has officially commenced on the N750 billion primary infrastructure phase of the Abuja Centenary City project, with construction giant Julius Berger Nigeria Plc eng...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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#newcities I am shocked to read about Bitcoin City, El Salvador's plan. A planned special economic zone, Bitcoin City will be a tax-free hub for crypto-enthusiasts and big-money global investors to live in luxury. Construction for the city and its airport have-
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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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September 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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#newcities BiodiverCity, as you can tell by its name, is a proposed new city promoting sustainability in Malaysia. This city will be a set of 3 islands off the coast of Penang Island, each connected by active transportation networks, making it car-free. My concern-
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Forget Neom, Malaysia's BiodiverCity is ultimate futuristic city goals
Forget Saudi Arabia’s Neom, Malaysia's new project is the ultimate futuristic city goal, Dezeen reported.Three man-made islands off the coast of Penang Island, Malaysia, will be...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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#newcities Maldives Floating City is in its early stages of construction! The lowest elevation country in the world, the tiny Maldives are facing rising sea levels - so they've teamed up with a Dutch firm to build a new "floating" city. Close to the capital, Malé, which-
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The Maldives are building a floating city to address rising sea levels and population | CBC Radio
The Maldives is in the early stages of building an elaborately designed floating city in an effort to ensure future livable spaces as sea levels continue to rise and provide new affordable spaces for ...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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#newcities OCEANIX is working towards Busan Floating City in South Korea. This 15-acre floating community will act as a solution to fight rising sea levels. The city will be zero-waste, net-zero and run 100% on solar energy. OCEANIX Busan will be the prototype model, if-
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Can Oceanix Busan’s Floating City defend against sea level rise?
At the South Korean port city of Busan, a prototype 15-acre floating community is being designed as a possible defense against sea level rise, according to Marc Collins Chen, co-founder of New York-ba...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#newcities Uzbekistan is another country working on a new capital, "New Tashkent"! The masterplan is led by a London-based firm in partnership with Uzbek partners. The city plans claim it will balance livability, climate resilience and digital integration.
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Cross Works' New Tashkent Masterplan Near Uzbek capital
New Tashkent, designed by Cross Works, is a 2.5M-resident smart city blending Uzbek tradition, climate resilience and digital twin innovation.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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#newcities Kazakhstan's plans for its new Alatau City are uncertain, as the region faces significant debt. The senator's solution? To reallocate additional money from the federal budget to this project. The project is being treated as a catch-all solution for the many
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Financial woes threaten Kazakhstan’s ambitious new city project
The Almaty region may lack sufficient local funding to move forward with the construction of Alatau, a planned new city near Almaty, according to Senator Zhanbolat Zhorgenbayev. Zhorgenbayev revealed ...
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September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM