Peter Grant, Tom Sweeney, Kyle de Bruin, Marwan Aboudib, and Travis A. McCready at STRATA 2025
What if we could start over? Forget zoning battles, aging infrastructure, and NIMBY politics—a new breed of visionary developers is providing significant capital to build entire cities from scratch, complete with AI governance, flying cars, and carbon-neutral everything. While traditional cities struggle with traffic, housing crises, and climate change, mega-projects worldwide are racing to become the world's first post-urban metropolises. These aren't just real estate deals—they're bets on how 10 billion people will live in 2050. But can you really engineer cities at this scale without incremental growth over time?