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CITE City
Last September we told you about a ghost town in New Mexico, called the Center for Innovation Testing and Evaluation (CITE), that's being constructed just to test new sustainable infrastructure technologies.
The test city will include all the features of a modern, mid-size American city — including roads, houses and schools — except the residents.
This will allow researchers to test the latest innovations in energy, transportation systems and resource development without jeopardizing the safety of real people.
CITE will be constructed over roughly 15 square miles of desert in Lea County, New Mexico, a region in the Southeast corner of the state that covers more than 2.8 million acres, or an area three times the size of Rhode Island.
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The central feature of CITE will be City Lab, a 400-acre lab environment that includes all the key elements of a mid-sized American city, including urban, suburban and rural zones.
High-rise buildings, ranch houses, a shopping center, parks and roads will help simulate a real-world environment where new technologies can be tested at scale.
CITE's Backbone, located underground, is the operational hub for the entire CITE facility. It wil connect all districts, buildings and research sites through a network of energy, water, and data systems. Below is the Master Plan.
CITE's Research Campus will host conference rooms and offices where researchers, universities and investors can meet and collaborate on different projects.
