{"id":149586,"date":"2025-08-16T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149586\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:15:23","slug":"glimpse-inside-the-new-400b-us-city-with-futuristic-cable-cars-bizarre-skyscrapers-it-will-be-bigger-than-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149586\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse inside the new $400b US city with futuristic cable cars &#038; bizarre skyscrapers &#8211; it will be bigger than Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BILLIONAIRE is attempting to make a new $400 billion city in the US, making space for five million residents in a desert.<\/p>\n<p>The city, named Telosa, was thought up by former US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/topic\/walmart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart<\/a> e-commerce CEO Marc Lore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of Telosa, a sustainable city design.\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"City of Telosa\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426592.jpg\" data-caption=\"States where Telosa could end up include Utah. Nevada, and Texas, among others with plenty of space\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426592.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>States where Telosa could end up include Utah. Nevada, and Texas, among others with plenty of spaceCredit: City of Telosa<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of Telosa, a sustainable city design.\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"City of Telosa\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426585.jpg\" data-caption=\"Telosa wants to house five million residents\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426585.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>Telosa wants to house five million residentsCredit: City of Telosa<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of Telosa, a sustainable city design.\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"City of Telosa\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426589.jpg\" data-caption=\"The city's gateway would be a prime transportation spot\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426589.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s gateway would be a prime transportation spotCredit: City of Telosa<\/p>\n<p>Telosa hopes to bring futuristic urban planning to America by providing sustainable options to its residents. <\/p>\n<p>It would offer a community endowment to those who lived there, leading to higher land value and better funding for the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the community sold the land and created an endowment \u2014 similar to a university or hospital endowment \u2014 they could earn $50 billion a year,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/cityoftelosa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;$50 billion that would go back to the citizens in the form of healthcare, education, jobs training, affordable housing, and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The goal is 100 percent renewable energy in the new city, alongside zero waste.<\/p>\n<p>Much less bustling than New York City and way more modern than Los Angeles, the drawings show flying vehicles, self-driving cars, and tons of greenery. <\/p>\n<p>Uniquely-shaped buildings cover the skyline as a large transportation gateway sits in the center of Telosa.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the states being considered for the city include Nevada, Utah, Idaho, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/where\/arizona\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona<\/a>, Texas, and the Appalachian region. <\/p>\n<p>The city will be under a new economy structure dubbed as equitism, or &#8220;[a]n economic system in which citizens have a stake in the city\u2019s land.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Incredible moment dolphin playfully DANCES with family of swimmers at popular UK beach <\/p>\n<p>Some equitism features include 20 percent food residency, 90 percent water reduction, zero mobility emissions, and 500 square ft. per capita in open space for residents. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It retains the same system of Capitalism but with an additional funding mechanism for enhanced services \u2014 through the land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Equitism, we will create a much higher-level of social services offered to residents, without additional burdens on taxpayers,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/cityoftelosa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p>Lore,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/sport\/14560546\/minnesota-timberwolves-sale-alex-rodriguez-marc-lore-owners\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> who also co-owns<\/a> the NBA Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA Minnesota Lynx, currently serves as the founder and CEO of Wonder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mission of Telosa is to create a more equitable and sustainable future,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/sport\/9961758\/minnesota-timberwolves-alex-rodriguez-marc-lore-nba-ownership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lore<\/a> said of the project. <\/p>\n<p>Telosa&#8217;s partners<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755317720_183_big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426592.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content--intro\">Building a city doesn&#8217;t happen with just one person. Telosa&#8217;s partners include:<\/p>\n<p>BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group: A group of architects based out of Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona, and Shenzhen<\/p>\n<p>Polco: A community engagement analytics company <\/p>\n<p>RCLCO: A real estate planning organization<\/p>\n<p>Buro Happold: An engineer, designer, and consultant group<\/p>\n<p>Archer: An air mobility company<\/p>\n<p>Henry George School of Social Science: An association focused on &#8220;economic justice, urban decay, environmental policy as well as tax policy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/cityoftelosa.com\/about\/#partners\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Telosa (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Telosa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s our North Star, and that&#8217;ll never change.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The project has been imagined with Lore by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/topic\/architecture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">architecture company<\/a> BIG, or Bjarke Ingels Group.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s promising better social services like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/topic\/schools\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">education<\/a> and housing, a participatory democracy, and a design that lessens noise and pollution with a good transportation system. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[I]t\u2019s not only about creating the city of Telosa itself, which we hope will set a new standard for urban living,&#8221; the website says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s also about building a city with a soul, a city focused on actual human beings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of a sustainable city with autonomous vehicles and drone taxis.\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"City of Telosa\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426591.jpg\" data-caption=\"Autonomous cars are a big feature of the city's planning\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426591.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>Autonomous cars are a big feature of the city&#8217;s planningCredit: City of Telosa<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of Telosa, a sustainable city design.\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"City of Telosa\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426587.jpg\" data-caption=\"The architecture for Telosa features futuristic designs\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426587.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>The architecture for Telosa features futuristic designsCredit: City of Telosa<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of Telosa, a sustainable city design.\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"City of Telosa\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426588.jpg\" data-caption=\"The city aims to be &quot;people-first&quot;\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/big-s-bold-vision-sustainable-1016426588.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>The city aims to be &#8220;people-first&#8221;Credit: City of Telosa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BILLIONAIRE is attempting to make a new $400 billion city in the US, making space for five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,276,88000,1033,171,421,224,8307,405,587,1053,358,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-149586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-climate-change-and-environment","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-homes","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-money-us","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-north-america","19":"tag-section-newsus-news","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115036509247028918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}