In 2020, the rapper Akon secured 136 acres of land to build his own eponymous city on the site of the coastal village of Mbodiène, not far from where he grew up in Senegal. Akon envisioned Akon City ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The future of public restrooms has arrived in New York City. As part of his “Ur In Luck” initiative, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday that five brand new bathrooms across the city ...

An African country has scrapped a legendary musician’s plans to build a futuristic city in his native land. Music mogul Akon, who grew up in Union City and Newark, originally aimed to build a ...

Sleek new designs for future city sidewalk sheds were unveiled by Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday — and the improved versions are so drastic, you may not be able to tell they’re temporary structures. The ...

Futuristic starchitect-designed city will rise out of the Arabian desert Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been commissioned to design an entire new city in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The Khalid Bin ...

They’re flushing millions down the toilets. The city dumped a whopping $5 million to install five new stainless steel toilets at public parks — even though the futuristic pods sell at a relatively ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- What will it take to feed the world 100 years from now without wasting precious resources? More than 85,000 middle and high school students worldwide will ...

“I Am Legend”/Warner Bros. A desolate, overgrown hellscape ravaged by virus-infected zombies. A huge, walled maximum-security prison. Floods and earthquakes bring down an entire skyline. The moon ...