The hubris of the planners of that now vastly scaled down Saudi urban mega-project had been something to behold

There is a long history of planned city building by both governments and the private sector from Brasilia to Islamabad. More recently, two trends have come together in a new wave of visionary urban planning. On the one hand, there are the neoliberal “special economic zone” policies that accelerated in the 1980s and have become
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