From MIT’s web site (adapted):
“New Century Cities (NCC) is a joint research initiative among MIT’s Center for Real Estate, City Design and Development in Urban Studies and Planning, and the Smart Cities Group/Media Lab which focuses on a new generation of development projects.
These very large-scale projects are deliberately located at the intersection of technology, urban design, and real estate development. They can be found in New York City, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Belfast Titanic Quarter, Helsinki’s Arabianranta, Masdar City, Copenhagen, Seoul’s Digital Media City, Singapore’s One North, Salford’s Media City (UK), Guadalajara’s Ciudad Creativa Digital (Mexico) and Zaragoza’s Milla Digital (Spain.)