Smart’ City Megaproject Disrupts the Dubai Archetype | WSJ

How Oman’s $2.6B ‘Smart’ City Megaproject Disrupts the Dubai Archetype | WSJ Breaking Ground. First - you will notice how they promote the Smart City concept without revealing that you will own nothing, be happy, and eat zee bugs. WSJ explores the new project aimed at modernizing Muscat. Muscat, Oman, sometimes described as the anti-Dubai, is trying to modernize as it looks toward an economic future without oil. But can it create a new model of a Middle Eastern city or will it succumb to the glitzier approach of its neighbors like the Line in Saudi Arabia or Egypt’s new capital?

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