Bill Gates He is recognized for his leadership in technology industryin which his success led him to build his fortune. But he is also famous for his philanthropic facet. In that sense, his curiosity has no limits and, consequently, he always surprises with new projects, ideas and opinions. This time, it was learned that one of his new plans includes the building a city.
The business magnate bought land in the southwestern arizona for the construction of a 10,000-hectare development consisting of residences, public schools and office, commercial and retail spaces. The city would be known as “Belmont“.
The plan provides for the construction of 80,000 homeswith 1,500 hectares reserved for industrial spacesof Offices and commercial1,375 hectares of open spaces and 190 hectares dedicated to public schools.
Elon Musk also wants to build his own city
The billionaire Elon MuskCEO of SpaceX, Twitter and Teslaalso plans to build his own city on the outskirts of Austin, Texas, United States (USA).
The city that Musk wants to create would be called “Snailbrook“, in honor of the Boring Company mascot, a company also founded by him. His idea is that it be a “Texas utopia” along the Colorado River, so its employees can live, work and play without having to leave the premises.
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Other cities planned by tycoons
Telosa: a city in the desert
Marc Lorethe former CEO of Walmartannounced plans to build a city in the desert which would be called “Telose“. The community would house 5 million people in a territory of more than 52 thousand hectares in the US desert. The estimated construction cost is higher than the US$400,000 million.
Images of the project made by the architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group show a sustainable metropolis with ecological architecture, sustainable energy production and a drought-resistant water system. For now, It’s unclear where Lore’s plans for the futuristic city lie.
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The Line: the futuristic city
The crown prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is building in the western end of the country: “The Line“, a city with the particularity that has the shape of a line. When it is finished it will have more than 170 kilometers long and just a few 200 wide and 500 meters high.
Its developers claim that even 9 million people will be able to live in the finished structure and that its environmental impact will be much lower than that of a traditional city.
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Seastead: a floating city
In 2008, the PayPal co-founder Peter Thiellaunched a mission to develop a floating citycall “seastead“, which would work independentlylike a small self-sufficient island. The billionaire investor stated that the city I would be libertarian and “an escape from politics in all its forms.”
The group took the first steps in planning to build the detachable inorganic island chain Front of French Polynesia and had an initial agreement with the country, but the government said in 2018 that its contract with the Seasteading Institute had become obsolete and “did not bind the country in any way. Thiel left the board in 2011.
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Lanai: an exclusive island
He co-founder of Oracle, Larry Ellisonbought in 2012 near the 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai for about 300 million dollarswhere he created a tourist complex with a wellness center and renovated the existing hotels.
From that moment on, on the island about 3,000 people live and became the destiny of millionairessuch as: Tom Cruise, Cindy Crawford and Will Smith.
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Source: Ambito
