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 Roger Weber Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are...

By Roger Weber Headquarters of the Renaissance, Florence, Italy is one of the most important and misunderstood cities ever built. While...

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

Elon Musk has floated into the driver’s seat of the world: From Payapl CEO to bankrupt entrepreneur, from laughingstock to curiosity,...

The three “master builders” of American architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright – each influenced the...

One of the most popular terms in planning is “automobile dependence”. The premise asserts that most people in most places in the United...

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

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...

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....

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...

In 1999 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the two titans of contemporary urban planning had an epic debate: New Urbanism vs....

Ten years removed from the Great Recession, America is gaining perspective on its impacts. Nowhere is this truer than within the urban...