Building the Future
Before you can enter the building, you have to be cooked. Not literally, but close enough. Visitors to the world's tallest pig farm, a 26-story tower on the southern outskirts of Ezhou, a mid-sized city in China's Hubei province, must pass through a sealed
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In February 2022, Europe discovered the hard way that diverting money form defense toward social programs came with a cost. Russia's invasion of Ukraine exposed three decades of erosion of defense industrial capacity, the dispersal of skilled workforces, the consolidation of supply chains and atrophy in the continent&
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In the Exumas, one of the most pristine island chains on earth, developers bulldoze roads into paradise and walk away when the money runs out. There is a moment, if you're lucky enough to be on a boat working slowly up the Exumas chain in the Bahamas, when
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See our accompanying feature on Al Duqm at New Cities Atlas. Fifteen years ago, Al Duqm was a fishing settlement on Oman's southeastern Arabian Sea coast with a population of around 6,000 people, a stretch of coastline and a geography that strategists had been quietly noting for
Grapes and Gloves
Part One: The Corporate Game Although it is no longer America’s highest-revenue sport, baseball is still known around the world as America’s “national pastime”. Because of its long season, it attracts more viewers than any other American sport. Because of the way it is played, it is
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Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are positioned to benefit from it. Could it catalyze a future greater than even they yet realize? Capital Frontiers investigates. The Lightning in a Bottle Equation It is among
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Downtown Asheville, North Carolina: One of the best vacation destinations in the United States, Asheville features a hilly downtown with some of the best shopping and restaurants in the entire country. From the French Broad Chocolate Bar to restaurants featured on the Eater 38, downtown Asheville is hopping come summertime.
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Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly the pit stop of choice for an impressive laundry list of major companies? How is it positioned among the growing number of Middle-Eastern industrial free zones? And should Rust Belt cities like Cincinnati look this way for answers? If a nation's cities
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2025 note: This post was originally published in 2013. Its projections about the future of downtown proved shockingly accurate, as many planners have now embraced the notion of a "residential future of downtown" . Today, the combined loss of commercial real estate demand downtown is being coupled with an
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Originally published in 2015: https://www.newgeography.com/content/005063-techno-fixing-urban-zone In 2008, when Chicago inked a deal to privatize its parking meters, a chorus of groans ensued. To say that the deal was widely panned is putting it mildly. Its detractors say the city accepted too