Dutch construction engineer Arcadis has named the Swiss city of Geneva as the world’s most expensive city to build in in its annual index comparing construction costs in 100 major…

Developers, governments and investors are starting to broaden their definition of what constitutes value in urban development, moving from short-term project profitability to a holistic view over time, says a…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has designed the masterplan for Khalid Bin Sultan City, which is being developed in Sharjah, UAE by BEEAH Group. The city will have seven residential neighbourhoods…

The moribund project to build “Amaravati”, a brand new capital for the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, is showing rare signs of life with a $1.3bn loan agreed last month,…

Plans for a central park have been approved for Bradfield City Centre, a new 10,000-home district and business hub planned in a rural area south of the under-construction Western Sydney…

China Gezhouba Group signed two contracts on Monday with Kuwait’s Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW), the Kuwait Times reports. The deals are worth a total of $557m, and cover…

Nigeria has renewed calls for investors to take opportunities offered by its $18.5bn Centenary City project in Abuja, business website Nairametrics reports. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, minister of housing and urban…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is to design a masterplan for a major mixed-used urban development to be called “Discovery City”. The city will be located within the 28 sq km…

A team comprised of Chinese state-owned companies has won a design and planning contract for a new city in Mongolia, close to the town of Kharkhorum in the Orkhon Valley,…

A team led by UK architect Cross Works has been chosen by the government of Uzbekistan to masterplan the first phase of New Tashkent, the country’s new capital. Groundworks have…

The head of the government authority responsible for building Indonesia’s new capital city on the island of Borneo has resigned along with his deputy two months before a scheduled relocation,…

Millions of people living in Chinese cities face rapid subsidence, according to a major new study. Dozens of researchers led by Ao Zurui of South China Normal University used a…