In a bonus episode for our flagship magazine the Wealth Report which is out this week, we explore the rise of new smart cities and the metaverse.

Anna is joined by Wealth Report deputy editor Flora Harley and our guest speaker is Dr Sarah Moser. Sarah is an associate geography professor at McGill University in Montreal Canada, specialising in new cities and urban mega-developments.   

The Wealth Report explores which cities high-net-worths currently want to live, work and play in. In this episode, we look at the rise of new smart cities built from scratch and virtual ones in the metaverse. Is it worth investing in them? We look at which new cities are closest to reaching completion, Big Tech’s view of smart cities and the metaverse and why Google’s Sidewalk Lab city project in Toronto went wrong.

To read more about mega cities and Sarah’s research, have a read of our Cities of the Future article on p.80 of the Wealth Report, and you can read about the cities topping our annual City Wealth Index on p70. 

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