New city without people

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"CITE will be modeled after a mid-sized modern American city, integrating real-world urban and suburban environments along with all the typical working infrastructure"





"New technologies can be tested at scale, allowing researchers and manufacturers to manage the unpredictability of product performance before being introduced into the market," the CITE website explains

HERE

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Meanwhile at the other end of the 'unpeopled city scale'
July 20 marks the 42nd anniversary of Operation Attila, Turkish code name for invasion


This Cyprus city (apologies for Daily Mail link, best collection of pictures)




Famagusta

[saDgit]

Meanwhile at the other end of the 'unpeopled city scale'
July 20 marks the 42nd anniversary of Operation Attila, Turkish code name for invasion


This Cyprus city (apologies for Daily Mail link, best collection of pictures)




Famagusta

Victoria Hislop's novel 'The Sunrise' is set around the invasion and evacuation of Famagusta. A good read and carefully researched insight into an extraordinary bit of recent history.

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Ordered up a copy for my kindle thanks

[saDgit]

Thought I'd introduce an element of culture.

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Not soon enough

[Alexd]

That new city might be interesting to spectate on (if they allow streaming) everyone waiting to see google car crashing into something

[saDgit]

Ordered up a copy for my kindle thanks

Paperback version has an interesting epilogue history after the novel. Hope that's in the Kindle edition as well.

Here's a beaut on the 'abandoned' theme and a first for the show'n'tell table ...

Plokstine missile base, Plateliai, Lithuania - abandoned at the collapse of the Soviet Union when the (predominantly) Russian troops left taking the missiles, and almost everything else useful, with them.



There were four underground silos, each covered by one of these sliding concrete and steel domes.


The silos were armed through much of the Cold War and one of them was permanently targeted on London. A fascinating but rather chilling place.

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here you might also like this lot

http://www.abandoned-places.com/

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Go on to Google maps and have a walk around Detroit.