Most Imaginative Future City Designs (30)

UAE's zero-carbon pioneer city, which cut energy use by 40% using solar power and passive architecture, already operational.

Toyota's mobility experimental city in Shizuoka, with three road types for traffic separation, where first residents moved in 2025.

Indonesia's $32 billion new capital in Borneo's rainforest, featuring a forest city and zero-carbon transport.

A brand-new capital built in the desert, housing government agencies, Africa's tallest tower, and a large green axis park.

A UN-Habitat collaboration project, a modular floating community off Busan, South Korea, to combat rising sea levels.

A floating city built with a Dutch team, a 20,000-resident community that rises and falls with the sea to combat sinking land.

Riyadh's 400-meter giant cube landmark, featuring a holographic sky interior.

NEOM's industrial zone, the world's largest floating industrial city, designed around a port and green hydrogen industry.

Saudi's desert mountain ski resort will host the 2029 Asian Winter Games, using artificial lakes and folded terrain for snow.

Saudi Arabia's Red Sea regenerative tourism destination, with 50 islands powered entirely by renewable energy.

A cultural new city featuring traditional mud-brick architecture embedded with digital infrastructure, blending heritage and future.

Entrepreneur Marc Lore's climate-positive city, using land value trusts to solve inequality.

Tencent's Dachan Bay new headquarters district, planned as a smart district prioritizing pedestrians with vehicles underground.

Toronto's waterfront, where Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs tested a timber smart neighborhood, now under reconstruction.

Bill Gates' associated investment firm's Arizona community, designed around high-speed transit and data centers.

Riyadh's suburban entertainment city, embedding theme parks, esports, and racetracks into cliff terrain.

South Korea's reclaimed smart city, with buried sensors and pneumatic waste systems, an early smart city textbook case.

The Philippines' resilient city built on an old US military base, using flood design and low-carbon transport to combat climate disasters.

Singapore's first smart sustainable public housing town, using centralized cooling and autonomous shuttles to create a forest residential area.

Panasonic-led Japanese smart town, with rooftop solar and storage across the block to achieve independent power during disasters.

Japan's Chiba smart city experimental zone, using big data to manage health and energy, with residents participating in city operations.

China and Singapore's co-built eco-city, transforming saline wasteland into a sponge city and green building demonstration zone.

Copenhagen's port new city, using a bike-priority network and seawater heat pumps to create a near-zero-carbon district.

Vienna's suburban new city, centered around a lake with direct metro access, one of Europe's largest urban development projects.

India's first green smart city, planned as a solar-powered new city on the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor.

Andhra Pradesh's new capital in India, planned with large-scale solar and canal networks, with a winding construction process.

Amsterdam's floating community, where 46 floating homes use a shared grid and heat pumps for self-sufficient living.