Catalogue: City Innovation Library clear
Sidewalk Labs (Alphabet) and Waterfront Toronto planned a sensor-rich Quayside district; Sidewalk withdrew on 7 May 2020, citing economic uncertainty, after unresolved …
Algeria's flagship technology-park incubator, built on a 92-hectare site near Algiers, supported over 500 project holders and 150+ events across 2010–2020 — …
Turkmenistan passed a Free Economic Zone law in 2017, but the U.S. State Department's 2025 Investment Climate Statement finds none operating, and …
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs spent 2.5 years and committed US$50 million designing a sensor-laden Toronto waterfront district, then cancelled it in May 2020 …
Puerto Rico's Act 60 investor tax break granted 5,852 decrees by 2024, but a federal audit found beneficiaries' relocation cut federal tax …
Jamaica's 1994 Operation PRIDE aimed to regularise squatter settlements islandwide but collapsed under cost overruns and corruption. Its 2008 successor, the Housing …
A pandemic-era remote-work permit let foreigners live and work from the Bahamas for up to a year. By 2021 it had drawn …
Georgia's 2020 pandemic-era entry scheme for remote workers drew a few thousand applicants but was never independently evaluated, and became redundant once …
In 2022 Intel and Germany agreed a roughly €10bn subsidy for two Magdeburg chip fabs, promising €30bn of investment and 3,000 jobs. …
A private, investor-run special economic zone on Roatán island offering its own legal system and near-1% effective tax rate — now fighting …
Ecuador's USD 1bn+ 'City of Knowledge' at Yachay opened in 2014 with 187 students; a 2018 state audit found USD 31.4m embezzled …
Launched in 2012 with 100 initial datasets, Ghana's Open Data Initiative pioneered open government data in West Africa, but a peer-reviewed study …
Cabo Verde's Nómadas Digitais visa set a target of 4,000 remote workers within three years, but independent press found only about 30 …
A 5,000-unit floating city planned for a Malé lagoon to demonstrate flood-proof urbanism — but its 2027 completion target has slipped with …
Ecuador launched a $5.68bn, 30-year plan for a 120,000-resident 'city of knowledge' in 2013. An official Contraloría audit found only 8.8% of …
Iceland's high-income-threshold remote-worker visa drew just 65 applications and 10 actual relocations in its first four months, with no further public uptake …
Saudi Arabia's flagship linear megacity, budgeted at $500bn, has built roughly 1.4% of its planned 170km structure and is being scaled back …
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