It's not a mirage. Kenya is breaking ground on a $14.4 billion tech city, in the middle of the savannah. Nothing currently exists at the site of Konza Technology City, 40 miles from Nairobi, but by 2015 they plan there will be more that 20,000 IT jobs available, which increases to 200,000 by projected completion in 2030.
In other news, check out this wearable architecture from a 3D printer, and are these furniture items going extinct? See the headlines after the jump.
• Next to Break Ground on a Pop-Up City? Surprise, it's Kenya | Curbed
• 3D Printed Jewelry Makes Architecture Wearable | Architizer
• The 10 Furniture Pieces That Are Becoming 'Extinct' | Huff Post Home
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Seems on the face of it like not a great idea, but another bauble to distract us from our many tasks at hand. More than anything now we should be trying to live integrated with the ecology of our locales. Situating a city in the middle of nowhere will mean tremendous energy outputs to get energy (and water?) to it. Again, on the face of it.
Well, good luck to Kenya. As my pseudo suggests, I have links to Kenya. 40 miles from Nairobi isn't that far, since the capital is growing so fast. I hope the best for them. They need it and, frankly, deserve it. Lots of hardworking, smart people there.
Look at the way some high-tech cities in the middle east can function. With the immense funding and amazing planning behind them in the first place they are able to build and support themselves with comparitively low use of resources. Hot places can mean solar energy :)