10/22/2024
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Telosa: BIG’s Bold Vision For Sustainable, People-First Urban Living
City of Telosa, a visionary project by architect BIG and entrepreneur Marc Lore, is a sustainable, tech-driven city in the American desert for 2050 that redefines urban living with a focus on social equity
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03/07/2024
The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Africa’s tallest building is rising under empty skies. Beneath the Iconic Tower in northern Egypt sits a city that officials expect to one day house 6.5m people. For now, though, it is mostly empty—like the desert that came before it.
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09/12/2023
California Forever isn’t alone in planning a utopian city. Here are 4 more
California Forever isn’t the only tech-utopian city plan out there. In fact, it’s just the latest in a small—but elite—club of millionaires and billionaires investing in buying undeveloped land and building new cities…
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07/13/2023
A tech billionaire is building a giant, 150-acre city in the middle of the desert: ‘The best, most sustainable solutions’
Telosa, the sustainable city plan from tech billionaire Marc Lore, is not aiming to be a utopia. The plan’s website says that it is “firmly grounded in reality and what is possible.”
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01/10/2023
Why a Billionaire is Building a $400BN City in the US Desert
We spoke to US billionaire Marc Lore about his plans to build Telosa.
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09/19/2022
Walmart Billionaire Marc Lore Is Planning a $500 Billion “City of the Future
Called “Telosa,” the urban center could potentially house up to five million residents somewhere in the American Southwest
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05/17/2022
Marc Lore’s Plan to Disrupt How We Live
The CEO of Wonder Group breaks down why he’s redefining at-home dining and creating the city of the future.
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04/27/2022
Marc Lore, le milliardaire qui veut bâtir une ville géante dans le désert
Construire en partant de zéro une ville de 5 millions d’habitants sans faire payer d’impôts pour expérimenter une nouvelle forme de capitalisme, plus équitable et plus inclusive : c’est le projet hors normes de Marc Lore, fondateur de Jet.com.
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01/11/2022
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Episode Transcript
REID HOFFMAN: Welcome to Masters of Scale bingo, the game in which you, our lucky contestants, listen out for classic entrepreneurial phrases and situations. On our bingo card today we have. “Why doesn’t it exist?” “Why don’t we just create it?” “Find a gap in the market.”…
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12/28/2021
Imagining the future: 2021’s boldest design proposals
Predictions for the future have not always been entirely accurate. If sci-fi author Philip K. Dick’s classic novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” had been prophetic, humanoid robots would live among us by now, almost…
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12/16/2021
Walmart’s former secret weapon Marc Lore is trying to change the world
Full stop, Jet.com founder and former Walmart U.S. e-commerce wizard Marc Lore is trying to shake up the world. And that’s where Yahoo Finance found Lore on a recent…
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12/08/2021
Is Marc Lore’s City of Telosa a Blueprint For Smart City Success?
Purpose-built smart cities are seen as the ultimate fruition of connected living — at least as they’re depicted in movies and TV shows. Not surprisingly, such grand…
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11/22/2021
Investment in new cities set to boom
Investments in urban infrastructure aimed at implementing “new visions for cities” will reach US$375 billion by 2030, according to global technology intelligence firm ABI Research. The research focuses on new greenfield and brownfield urban developments…
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11/04/2021
A City from Scratch? (with Marc Lore)
Episode Transcript
Preet Bharara: A big part of what makes our show special is you, our listeners. That’s why we’d like your help to plan for our future by filling out a short survey…
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10/25/2021
Marc Lore Presents: Telosa, a Desert City Utopia
Serial entrepreneur, investor and NBA owner Marc Lore chats with Nora and Scott about his dream of building a sustainable city in the desert, plus, basketball and his big plans for the Minnesota Timberwolves…
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10/18/2021
Billionaire ex-Walmart exec says the first ‘settlers’ of his planned $400 billion city ‘Telosa’ will likely be selected through applications…
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10/17/2021
Billionaire Marc Lore outlines how he will build the inclusive, Utopian desert city Telosa
Marc Lore grew up wanting to be a farmer – reveling at the idea of “something growing from nothing”…
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10/12/2021
The future of ‘smart living’ will be a test of how smart we really are
American youth are on the move, ditching over-priced and climate-exposed coastal cities for more affordable and resilient inland boomtowns. The war for talent is now as much between cities as it is between companies…
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09/06/2021
Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled
The cleanliness of Tokyo, the diversity of New York and the social services of Stockholm: Billionaire Marc Lore has outlined his vision for a 5-million-person “new city in America” and appointed a world-famous architect…
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09/03/2021
Billionaire Unveils Plans to Build the City of Telosa, a Sustainable and Futuristic Society
If you live a zero-waste or sustainable lifestyle, you’ve probably thought about how nice it would be to live in a low-impact bubble — a city where everyone…
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09/03/2021
The futuristic city to be built in the US desert
Bjarke Ingels’ practice BIG is masterplanning a city on a vacant 60,000 hectare site in the United States desert, dubbed Telosa. Situated in the country’s…
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09/02/2021
A Former Walmart Executive Wants to Build ‘the Most Sustainable City in the World’
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is designing a city that will be built “from scratch”…
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09/01/2021
The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis
“Let the people own the land!” says Marc Lore. “But in a capitalistic way.” In an American economy of winners and losers, it’s clear where Marc Lore falls. He founded two e-commerce startups and sold them…
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09/01/2021
Bjarke Ingels designing “new city in America” for five million people
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is master planning a city called Telosa for entrepreneur Marc Lore, which is set..
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09/01/2021
Billionaire Marc Lore wants to build a utopian city based on ‘equitism’
Internet billionaire Marc Lore worries about the growing wealth gap in America. His answer? Create a new utopian city…
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