What is New Housing Like in China?
By Roger Weber Previously, we published a piece on Capital Frontiers that explored the affordability of housing in China. In it, we...
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How Expensive is Housing in China?
By Roger Weber Imagine working your entire adult life, each month stashing away half your income to save up for a new house, and by the...
Africa's Big Moment: Could a Conflux of Oil and Water Ignite the Economies of Botswana and Namibia?
By Roger Weber Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are...
How Did Florence Grow? 9 Lessons for New and Existing Cities
By Roger Weber Headquarters of the Renaissance, Florence, Italy is one of the most important and misunderstood cities ever built. While...
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...
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...
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...
How Do You Build a New City? Eight Steps to Realizing a Sustainable Metropolis
So you've got some land and want to build a new city? Or maybe you just know you want to build a city, but you don't have the land yet....
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...
An Invitation for Investment: Could a New Privately Developed City Save Zimbabwe?
As we've explored potential locations for the next great new global city, a million-to-one longshot is rising to the surface as a...
Battle of the Titans of Urban Planning: Andres Duany vs. Rem Koolhaas
In 1999 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the two titans of contemporary urban planning had an epic debate: New Urbanism vs....
The Paleo Cities of Tomorrow
Ten years removed from the Great Recession, America is gaining perspective on its impacts. Nowhere is this truer than within the urban...