What are the biggest challenges for NEOM, the Saudi Arabian Megacity?
We’ve written about the vision for NEOM multiple times on Capital Frontiers. NEOM is the massive new city project Saudi Arabia launched...
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Eight Things I've Learned from Elon Musk
Elon Musk has floated into the driver’s seat of the world: From Payapl CEO to bankrupt entrepreneur, from laughingstock to curiosity,...
Life After Covid-19: Inspirations from Frank Lloyd Wright on the Future of Cities
The three “master builders” of American architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright – each influenced the...
Why Most People Drive when They Could Take Transit
One of the most popular terms in planning is “automobile dependence”. The premise asserts that most people in most places in the United...
Poverty is a Thing of the Past, and the Possibilities for Our Future are Infinite
I recently published an article lamenting the fact that prominent elites are now advocating population control as a tool to combat...
Forced Population Control is an Evil Idea that Won't Solve Climate Change
David Attenborough, according to a recent article for the UK’s Telegraph, has given up on society’s potential for good. In it, he argues...
Our Oil Supply is Virtually Infinite - and Oil is Our Greatest Renewable Resource
Thanks to emerging oil technologies, the era of energy as a tool for political manipulation is over – thus ending an era that commenced...
Saudi Arabia's NEOM is Breeding a New City Built Around Genetic Engineering
Cities for people or people for cities? An unlikely marriage between city planning and gene modification is reinventing the future city....
How to Plan Cities in the Age of COVID-19: Part One
By Roger Weber This will be the first part of a series in as many parts as it takes me to sort out some thoughts on how city planning can...
KAEC vs. NEOM: Inside the Development War Between Saudi Arabia's Sibling New Cities
As one of the most conservative countries on earth takes on the 21st century, a pair of government-initiated new cities are among its...
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