New Cities

A first of its kind book about a movement that’s literally reshaping the world.

It was bound to happen but this was perhaps a little more epic than we imagined.

The empty new town in the desert, built for Bedouin but never inhabited.

There are two sides to new city building: what is to become and what was there before. Straddling the divide between the two is what I do for a living.

I awoke in the desert.

I travel out to Oman’s new city in the desert.

Duqm — say it, repeat it, and listen to how it sounds as you may be hearing a lot about this place in the near future.

On the harbingers of change.

How I to go about these projects.