By Capital Frontiers The scale of urbanization that will happen in Africa over the next 80 years is staggering. While Africa today has...

By Roger Weber Politically and culturally, the American zeitgeist around international trends is largely fixated on the growing economies...

By Capital Frontiers Most people have never heard of Dar es Salaam, which isn't surprising. It’s the 116th largest city in the world and...

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...

We’ve written about the vision for NEOM multiple times on Capital Frontiers. NEOM is the massive new city project Saudi Arabia launched...

Thanks to emerging oil technologies, the era of energy as a tool for political manipulation is over – thus ending an era that commenced...

Cities for people or people for cities? An unlikely marriage between city planning and gene modification is reinventing the future city....

As one of the most conservative countries on earth takes on the 21st century, a pair of government-initiated new cities are among its...

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...

Originally published on New Geography For years, the Federal Government has been approving general budget stopgaps to fund highway...

Saudi Arabia is democratizing. In 2019 for the first time ever women are driving, the cinemas are open, and young people are mixing in...

Originally published in 2016 on RealClearPolicy Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly the pit stop of choice for an impressive laundry list of...