We’re pleased to share that our CEO Hakan Agca will be attending MIPIM #2026.

If you’ll be attending, drop us a comment, message or email, and we'll reach out. Hakan will be looking forward to meeting you there.

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Hakan Agca will be speaking tomorrow at the UK–Uzbekistan Infrastructure Conference in Tashkent as part of the UK trade delegation, setup by the British Embassy Tashkent.

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#newcities "There is no Plan B" way to fill me with confidence, Jared.

Inside Qatar’s ‘city of the future’ | CNN Construction of Lusail, Qatar’s newest city, hasn’t even finished, yet it’s already becoming a rival to capital Doha. With striking architecture and real livability, it’s easy to see why.

Lusail city, Qatar's new mega-urban project north of Doha, aims to be the country's first sustainable, mixed-use city. But, with massive tourism infrastructure, floating resort islands and luxury housing, who is it really built for?

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The pilot for this city is framed as a 'clean-sheet' urban innovation system: educational park, transit-oriented development, with lots of greenery. The flipped narrative (no cars? high-density campus?) still risks replicating tech-cluster exclusivity.

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As Nwokeukwu Mascot writes: "What many saw as a bold step and promising vision was quickly buried under the weight of politics, media optics, and what can be best described as deliberate administrative sabotage."

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The project failed due to purely political reasons. In 2023, following Alex Otti's election as governor of the region, the politician stopped the project as he saw funders and promoters of Enyimba Economic City as political opponents.

Exposed: How Gov Otti Flawed Enyimba Economic City, Turned Owaza's Industrial Dream Into A Real Estate Venture - News Critic ‎ By Nwokeukwu Mascot‎‎‎In 2019, hopes soared across Abia State as the Enyimba Economic City, a $4 billion public-private industrial initiative was unveiled to spearhead large-scale development and ec...

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In 2019, the $4bn Enyimba Economic City outside of Lagos was unveiled, promising to drive large-scale economic transformation for the country. Today, not a single piece of machinery nor buildings stand on the unfenced plot of land

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Reasons for the project's failure include it's geographic location being prone to flooding, high income gaps in the capital city (rendering the project economically inaccessible to most), project mismanagement from poor business planning and on-site water + waste management issues

La Cité du Fleuve, the real estate dream of an elite taking water in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo A real estate dream that is taking water, Congolese investors at open war against the French manager of a company established in Bermuda: ten years after its launch, the City of the River marks the fa...

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La Cité du Fleuve, once promoted as a high-end urban project and the "Dubai of Kinshasa", is now comprised of abandoned buildings and empty lots lining the Congo River following the aftermath of luxury real estate craze from 10 years prior

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Mauritius DPM Berenger Disillusioned As China's JinFei Project Failed to Fulfill its Promise On 17 May 2025, Mauritian Deputy Prime Minister Paul Berenger undertook a site visit of Chinese projects in Mauritius to

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The Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius, Paul Bérenger, acknowledges the current shortcomings of the ambitious project. In the mid-2010s, infrastructure for the SEZ was built by the country, however was never fully utilized due to the project's failure

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Negotiations with China to Revive Jinfei 500-Acre Smart City Project A government delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Paul Bérenger visited the Jinfei Smart City site in Riche-Terre and Yihai Smart City at Domaine les Pailles on Saturday 17th May morning. The visit...

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Jinfei Smart City, the result of a joint venture between Jinfei Group and the government of Mauritius, has been scaled back from 500 acres to 175 acres following slow building progress and unsold luxury properties

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Partisans to turn Canadian town into "city of the future" The Orbit Partisans has unveiled plans to turn a Canadian town into a smart community, combining fibre optics and autonomous vehicles within a rural setting.

The Orbit will be built in Innisfil, ON, a town known for ‘big thinking’, from accepting crypto for taxes to piloting Uber. Centred on its Metrolinx rail station, mixed-use developments will grow outward, helping residents balance rural and urban life.

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Partisans to turn Canadian town into "city of the future" The Orbit Partisans has unveiled plans to turn a Canadian town into a smart community, combining fibre optics and autonomous vehicles within a rural setting.

The Orbit, Ontario, will turn a rural town into a smart community delivering urban benefits while preserving farmland. Inspired by the Garden City movement, it will use fibre-optics, autonomous vehicles, and drones to collect data and connect infrastructure.
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The project comes as a response to a doubling in Accra's population, leading to intense traffic jams, as well as decaying infrastructure including drainage systems which are prone to flooding during the rainy season. Budgeted at over $1bn, a phased building approach will be used

President Mahama's New Green City Initiative Triggers Memories of The Defunct Hope City Project - The Labari Journal Ghana's President announced a new Green City project. The announcement is reminiscent of a similar project President Mahama announced more than 10 years ago

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The Green City Project, announced by Ghana's president Mahama, mirrors the failed Hope City, which was unveiled and discarded a decade earlier. The 20-year project aims to create a smart city which will attract tourism and investment

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[...] creating an interesting tension between the idea of nationalism as promoted by an ethnic leader and the ambitions of the project. The collectiveness of the Ashanti nation clashes with exclusivity, and therefore exclusion defined by luxury, of the Kumasi Airport City project.

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The Asantehene, monarch of the Ashanti people, urges his subjects to "have faith in the nation and be prepared to put their money where their mouths are". As a luxury development, the Kumasi Airport City will inherently be financially inaccessible to the majority, [...]

Kumasi Airport City project takes off - Asantehene calls for policies to attract local private capital The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has underscored the need for unique policy interventions to give incentives to indigenous individuals to invest more in the country to spur economic growth

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Kumasi Airport City, Ghana, is to be built as a luxurious mixed-use complex near the capital Accra, as endorsed by elected and traditional leaders. It will host a gated community, luxury apartment buildings and office space, and shopping malls

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As seen in class, Eko Atlantic City is now essentially a high-end enclave which perpetuates inequality in the region. Climate adaptation has become commodified and environmental risk and risk discourse are used as justification to increase private profits.

Eko Atlantic City: How ecological pain became billionaires’ gain By Maduka Nweke nwekemaduka88@gmail.com    Many may rightly call Eko Atlantic City the billionaires’ playground snatched from the sea. But it is more than just the display of architectural masterpiece...

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Eko Atlantic City, built on reclaimed land serving as an erosion barrier to Victoria Island, initially aimed to physically shield the financial and residential elite of Nigeria from the Atlantic ocean. Now compared to Dubai, the city will host 250k ppl

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The city is a joint venture between Front Range Developers (UAE) and Centenary City Plc.. Aiming to make Nigeria a top destination for international business, much work must be done to reach this goal as just over half of the city's initial infrastructure is currently completed

African city's $18.5 billion renovation plan The Nigerian government has called for more investors to aid the construction of the Centenary City project, one of the largest projects of its kind in Africa.

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Centenary City, located in Abuja, Nigeria, proposes a "smart" city model mirroring Dubai and Singapore, amongst others. Construction started in 2014, but has since halted due to a lack of funding. The city aims to attract global investment

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hoser, on YouTube, published a succinct informational video describing the political landscape in Equatorial Guinea, which gives context to the importance of the capital moving to the mainland. I'd recommend watching it for its informative nature

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Moving the capital to greater population centers serves as "a strategic move to better integrate the mainland with the government and political institutions". This move aims to reinforce national identity and unity, while also increasing economic growth in the region

Equatorial Guinea’s New Capital: Ciudad de la Paz – Ambition Meets Reality For those interested in weird or surreal locations, Ciudad de la Paz offers a feeling of a city frozen in time. It's as if the ambitions of the government were not quite realized or have been paused.

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Equatorial Guinea's new planned capital, Ciudad de la Paz, will be built on the country's mainland where most of the population lives. The city aims to replace Malabo, Equatorial Guinea's current capital, built on Bioko Island, home to the gov

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Konza City appears to be more of a tech project than a city building one. While infrastructure such as powerplants and roadways have already been built, the focus of the project appears to be primarily based on the integration of AI -in- city infrastructure and lifestyles

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AI is a pivotal underpinning of the project. Indeed, the city is to host an "Intelligent Operations Centre, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), [which] is integrated with the national data centre to power more than 23,000 government services on the e-Citizen platform."

Konza Technopolis commissioned to accelerate the smart city development | Government Advertising Agency The Government has taken a major step in its digital transformation journey, following the official commissioning of Konza Technopolis, a Vision 2030 flagship project that positions the country as Africa’s emerging hub for technology, innovation and sustainable urban development.

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Konza Technopolis, built to the South of Nairobi, aims to position Kenya as a hub for innovation and sustainable development. The country's president wishes to expedite the city's construction with partnerships between the public and private sectors

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Is NEOM’s ‘The Line’ Still the Future of Cities or Just a Mirage in the Desert? Saudi Arabia’s The Line, a proposed 170-kilometer linear city carved across the Tabuk desert, has moved from concept to visible earthworks.

The Line’s financial cuts, amid high government spending, oil price fluctuations, and focus on quick-win projects, highlight the limits of architectural futurism in delivering 'giga-projects' under geopolitical and environmental constraints.

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