urbanism
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Saudi Crown Prince Asks, Answers What if a City, But It’s a 169KM Line
Vicious Saudi autocrat Mohamed bin Salman has a new vision for Neom, his plan for a massive, $647 billion, AI-powered, legally independent city-state of the future on the border with Egypt and Jordan. When we last left the crown prince, he had reportedly commissioned 2,300-pages’ worth of proposals from Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co.…
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Megacities Will Gobble Up The Best Farmland, Leaving Humans Hungry
Cities will grow alongside growing populations, turning the land in their wake into housing and infrastructure. And when that happens, we can goodbye to the food, a new study warns.
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How Olympians Can Survive Swimming In Sewage
Rio’s water is vile — full of raw sewage and dead bodies — and later this week, humanity’s top athletes will plunge into this hellish stew for a jolly ol’ international sporting competition.
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Now Y Combinator Wants To Build A City Because Every Other Tech Company Is Doing It
Cities are so trendy right now that every big tech company wants to build its own. Zappos did it in Downtown Vegas. Amazon is kind of doing it in a Seattle. Alphabet is probably doing it somewhere soon. And now Y Combinator wants in on the fun, too, with a plan to build some kind…