Jesse Walker on a Stillborn Urban Utopia

The city in the video seems abandoned. As a
camera pans through plazas, streets, and buildings, just a handful
of people are visible. Activity is promised but deferred: Across
the landscape, posters declare that one enterprise or another is
“Opening Soon.” The place, writes Jesse Walker, is Masdar City, an
$18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the
outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It’s empty.

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