CITE: The $1 billion city that nobody calls home

The future city called CITE (Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation) project is a full-scale model of an ordinary American town. However it will be used as a petri dish to develop new technologies that will shape the future of the urban environment. This place is dedicated to ambitious experiments in fields such as transport, construction, communication and security, also for developing new forms of agriculture, energy, and water treatment.
This project thinks in driverless vehicles that could be used, monitored from above by traffic drones, homes could be designed to survive natural disasters and it search alternatives energy sources.

The new location for this project has been chosen and it will be constructed close to the White Sands missile range, where the first atomic bombs were tested. Builders will be on site this year, and the city could be operational as early as 2018.
The director describes CITE as a lab but we have to be conscious about investment in research that will be necessary.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/06/business/test-city/index.html