A $1.4 billion City Is Being Built In The Middle Of The Desert
When you think of a perfect place to build a city, you think of a place near a water source with ground that can be used to grow plants. That’s why you see cities on the map all hugging lakes, rivers and oceans. Well, a new plan is in the works to build a $1.4 billion city in the middle of the desert, but there’s a catch: No one will be living there.
The Pegasus Global Holdings said of the project: “City Lab will be a representative example of a modern day, mid-sized American city. It will include urban, suburban and rural zones as well as the corresponding infrastructure,” the statement read. “City Lab will be pre-wired for data collection, giving researchers the ability to simulate system-wide scenarios and then draw data from such activities. It’s the first of its kind, in scale and scope.”
The city will feature what you’d see in a mid-sized city: skyscrapers, 35,000 homes, a shopping center, church, service station and an airport. The 38-square-kilometre city will also include farms, a rural road system, a highway and an industrial area. The best part about the city is — in my opinion — no advertising or billboards within the city. If this is a fully functioning city with no people or advertising, I think I may just sneak in and live there. The problem with that is that the city with be on constant surveillance.
“It will be a true laboratory without the complication and safety issues associated with residents,” Bob Brumley, managing director of Pegasus says. “Here you can break things and run into things and get used to how they work, before taking them out into the market.”
The experiment will have about 300 people regulating the day to day operations of this test city. It will be located on the outskirts of Las Cruces, New Mexico and the breaking ground should begin soon.
(Via CITE Design)
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