Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has worked up masterplan proposals for a smart city in Oman that will eventually host a population of 100,000.

Sultan Haitham City is earmarked for a site to the west of the Omani capital of Muscat and will cover a total of 14.8sq km.

The Omani government said the new city had been planned to “reflect sound and sustainable urban planning” and would have 20,000 homes, ranging in size from villas to semi-detached houses, townhouses and flats.

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