However, this city feels a bit like the desert’s new propaganda tool. Built to showcase control. Its geometry isn’t just aesthetic, it’s politically strategic. Every curve, every corridor choreographs control. It’s soft power disguised as sustainability. #newcities

Instead of using China for these projects, which so clearly lean toward surveillance, they should really look into South Korea’s Songdo-Dong City plan. Its a model that uses technology to empower citizens, not monitor them, proving that smart infrastructure doesn’t have to mean control. #newcities

I also love how it markets moderation as a luxury, with less AC, less chaos, less noise. In our capitalist world addicted to speed and scale, it reimagines progress as balance. Its trying to say the future of cities is not in chasing growth, but mastering control #newcities

On a more important note, whats striking about this new desert city isn’t just the Nile diversion, its how Egypt keeps using megaprojects as a performance of control. Each “city of the future” becomes a distraction from inflation, debt, and youth unemployment. #newcities

Looking at Sabah Al Ahmad from above, it almost reads like a balance sheet turned into geography: each lagoon is a neatly carved asset, every cul-de-sac is a line item. In a petro-state, urban form starts to feel like another way of accounting for surplus capital. #newcities

Only in Ethiopia bruh 😭

Prospera feels like the offshore finance world turned into urban form, a Cayman Islands disguised as a city. It shares more in common with tax havens than tech utopias, showing how globalization now builds cities not just for living, but for sheltering capital in plain sight. #newcities

What's interesting about this city is how it flips the idea of progress: from expanding cities to refining them. Built on a former factory site, it's like Toyota's act of urban recycling. Its proof that innovation isn't always about building more, but also rebuilding smarter. #newcities

What’s bold about the city is how it treats the ocean not as threat but territory. It flips the script on land scarcity, suggesting cities don’t have to expand outward but can evolve with the sea, a radical rethink of where and how urban life can exist. Similar to libertarian seasteads. #newcities

This project feels like the physical embodiment of corporate urbanism, efficient, safe, and hyper-curated. Its success shows what money and planning can achieve, but also how perfection often trades off with spontaneity, diversity and the messy vitality real cities need. #newcities

It also feels like an experiment in slowing down globalization, as an attempt to anchor growth in cultural rhythm rather than speed. If it works, it could model a softer form of modernization; if not, it risks becoming mindfulness repackaged for investment appeal. #newcities

Amaravati reveals a paradox of modern urbanism: sustainability framed through spectacle. It’s branded as eco-friendly, yet built on high-carbon materials and speculative land use. The green feels more aesthetic than systemic, not much of it extends beyond the image. #newcities

I'm also intrigued by how Centenary City fits into Abuja's spatial politics. Its an enclave built for efficiency, besides a city still grappling with power cuts and congestion. Its a striking contrast that raises questions about who the future of "modern" Nigeria is really being built for #newcities

It strikes me that this city is anchored not only in infrastructure but in digital economy ambitions: fibre optic, solar & BPOs. If those take off, the city could fast-track its dvlpmt and become a real tech-driven hub, redefining what urban growth looks like in Jamaica beyond Kingston #newcities