2024-12-22T07:04:01-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150145468/the-booming-business-of-building-cities-from-scratch Alexander Walter 2019-07-10T15:22:00-04:00 >2019-07-10T15:39:24-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/92/92145d7a0b1df46190efdaeb874f6761.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in the midst of new cities fever,&rdquo; says Prof Sarah Moser. The head of the new cities lab at McGill University has documented more than 100 cities that have sprung up across Asia and Africa since the early 2000s for her forthcoming Atlas of New Cities.</p></em><br /><br /><p><em>The Guardian</em> kicks off its new <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/cities-from-scratch" target="_blank">Cities from scratch</a> series with an overview of noteworthy planned metropolises that are replacing big swaths of desert, jungle, or sea across Asia and Africa.</p> <p>While some new cities started out ambitiously but had to eventually <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/148814474/masdar-abandons-its-dream-of-becoming-the-first-zero-carbon-city" target="_blank">give up on key features</a>, others took some years to overcome the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/89318/ordos" target="_blank">'ghost city' label</a>. And there's no shortage of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1035435/neom" target="_blank">prominent newcomers</a>. <br></p>