In 2018, a company began quietly buying up some $900 million worth of land from farmers in Solano County, California, an area just north of the Bay Area. As the parcel ballooned to more than 60,000 ...

The government of Uzbekistan is implementing “New Tashkent”, under Tashkent’s Master Plan, through 2045. It will be a purpose-built city designed to absorb population growth, ease environmental ...

Western Sydney is undergoing the most ambitious regional transformation in Australian history, with a new international airport, a city built from scratch, and 200,000 jobs planned around an ...

An artist’s rendering of the project’s planned public access lagoon, meant to be open to everyone from Solano County. (California Forever) A group of Silicon Valley billionaires planned a massive ...

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Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet. Milan's marble facades and ...

The Old World, otherwise known as Europe, is getting a brand-new city. Not a new arrondissement on the edge of Paris, or a new neighborhood in the suburbs of Milan—but an entire city, built from ...

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