Media
July 2022 Interviewed by Christopher Carey for Cities Today: Saudi Arabian smart city project promises to be 'zero carbon'
April 2022 Interviewed by Ivy Lerner-Frank for an article and podcast about relocating capital cities: Global and Mail
April 2022 Interviewed by Otis Gray about smart cities and new cities built from scratch for the podcast: Futurology: 12 Big Questions About What Comes Next
Sept 2021 Interviewed by Gloria Kurnik for Bloomberg [video]: How South Korea built a city out of the sea
July 2021 Interviewed by Joshua Brustein for Bloomberg Businessweek: The Diapers.com guy wants to build a utopian megalopolis
March 2021 Interviewed by Brenda Branswell for McGill News: Tracking the bold promise of new planned cities
January 2021 Interviewed by Marianne Sibaud for ArchDaily: Why are countries building their cities from scratch?
January 2021 Interviewed by John Lorinc for the Toronto Star: Smart city mega-projects get a lot of hype. So why do so many turn out to be expensive disappointments?
Sept 2020 Interviewed by Nick van Meade for Neste: Urban life, reimagined: How to build the clean, sustainable city of the future
July 2020 Cited by Katie Jane Fernelius for Current Affairs: A private city: The rise of Eko Atlantic
June 2020 Interviewed by Konrad Putzier for the Wall Street Journal: China's Tencent plays master builder as tech firm plans 'Net City'
February 2020 Interviewed by Aureliano Tonet and Margherita Nasi for Le Monde: Neom, le rêve hollywoodien de Mohammed Ben Salman pour l’Arabie saoudite.
January 2020 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for Forbes: Inside the rise of private cities: 'Priority of management is profit, not the needs of citizens'
December 2019 Interviewed by Grégoire Allix for Le Monde: Les nouvelles Babylones, des villes idéales surtout pour les riches et les investisseurs
September 2019 Interviewed by Kerry Gold for The Globe and Mail: Housing experts push Liberals for expanded housing speculation tax
September 2019 Interviewed by Michael Enright for CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition: The global explosion of cities built from scratch sparks hope and concern (25 minutes)
July 2019 Interviewed by Ainslie MacLellan for CBC Daybreak about new cities. (radio)
July 2019 Interviewed by Sylvie St-Jacques for Le Devoir about new cities: Nouvelles villes, meilleur monde?
July 2019 Interviewed by Nick Van Mead for The Guardian about new cities: Cities from scratch: Watch new cities rise from the desert, jungle and sea
July 2019 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for The Guardian about new cities: Should we build cities from scratch?
May 2019 Interviewed by Daniel Butler for Razor's Edge about new cities and sustainability (radio).
March 2019 Interviewed by Sonali Karnick on Our Montreal about my new cities research (TV).
March 2019 Interviewed for National Geographic (The City Issue) on urban planning in new master-planned cities: To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars
March 2019 Featured in a 16-minute segment on CBC's The National about my research on new urban mega-developments in Malaysia: 'Smart' cities promise economic and environmental benefits to the developing world
March 2019 Interviewed by Michelle Gagnon for the CBC about my research on new cities: 'This is big money': New cities promise a smarter, greener future but will reality match the pitch?
September 2018 Interviewed by Cristina Lindblad for Bloomberg Businessweek about new cities: 'The irresistible urge to build new cities from scratch'
September 2018 McGill University Faculty of Science article about my work: 'New cities may make millions more vulnerable to climate change'
August 2018 Interviewed by Michelle Martin for MoneyFM 89.3, a Singapore-based business radio station about how recently announced limits on foreign investment in Malaysia may affect the Chinese mega-development, Forest City.
August 2018 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for The Guardian about new Arab cities ('Five years ago there was nothing: Inside Duqm, the city rising from the sand')
August 2018 Invited speaker at KentPresents
March 2018 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for Forbes about new cities in Saudi Arabia and globally ('Ghost towns or boomtowns? What new cities really become')
March 2018 Interviewed by Brook Larmer for the New York Times about Forest City, Malaysia ('A Malaysian insta-city becomes a flash point for Chinese colonialism - and capital flight')
Nov 2017 Interviewed by Karin Laub (AP) about new cities in the Middle East (‘Jordan’s plan of a shiny city in the desert met by skepticism’)
August 2017 Interviewed by New Cities Foundation about greenfield cities (‘NewCities Associate Fellow Sarah Moser Unpacks Greenfield Cities’)
July 2017 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for Forbes about the new cities phenomenon for a series of articles about new cities (‘Why hundreds of completely new cities are being built around the world’)
Oct 2016 Interviewed by Naki B. Mendoza for Devex.com about new cities ('What are “new cities” and why they matter for development')
May 2016 Interviewed by Sarah Murray for the Financial Times about Yachay Knowledge City, Ecuador (‘How to avoid high-tech “crash and burn” ghost towns’)
May 2016 Interviewed by Brendan O’Boyle for the Americas Quarterly about Yachay Knowledge City, Ecuador
October 2015 Interviewed by Brianna Lee for the International Business Times about Yachay Knowledge City, Ecuador (‘Ecuador’s Silicon Valley? Quito bets big to be South America’s next high-tech powerhouse’)
2015 Interviewed by Monocle Magazine about new cities
July 2014 Interviewed by Jim Wyss for the Miami Herald about Yachay Knowledge City, Ecuador (‘Ecuador is betting $1 billion that a dream city can make it a high-tech leader’)
July 2022 Interviewed by Christopher Carey for Cities Today: Saudi Arabian smart city project promises to be 'zero carbon'
April 2022 Interviewed by Ivy Lerner-Frank for an article and podcast about relocating capital cities: Global and Mail
April 2022 Interviewed by Otis Gray about smart cities and new cities built from scratch for the podcast: Futurology: 12 Big Questions About What Comes Next
Sept 2021 Interviewed by Gloria Kurnik for Bloomberg [video]: How South Korea built a city out of the sea
July 2021 Interviewed by Joshua Brustein for Bloomberg Businessweek: The Diapers.com guy wants to build a utopian megalopolis
March 2021 Interviewed by Brenda Branswell for McGill News: Tracking the bold promise of new planned cities
January 2021 Interviewed by Marianne Sibaud for ArchDaily: Why are countries building their cities from scratch?
January 2021 Interviewed by John Lorinc for the Toronto Star: Smart city mega-projects get a lot of hype. So why do so many turn out to be expensive disappointments?
Sept 2020 Interviewed by Nick van Meade for Neste: Urban life, reimagined: How to build the clean, sustainable city of the future
July 2020 Cited by Katie Jane Fernelius for Current Affairs: A private city: The rise of Eko Atlantic
June 2020 Interviewed by Konrad Putzier for the Wall Street Journal: China's Tencent plays master builder as tech firm plans 'Net City'
February 2020 Interviewed by Aureliano Tonet and Margherita Nasi for Le Monde: Neom, le rêve hollywoodien de Mohammed Ben Salman pour l’Arabie saoudite.
January 2020 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for Forbes: Inside the rise of private cities: 'Priority of management is profit, not the needs of citizens'
December 2019 Interviewed by Grégoire Allix for Le Monde: Les nouvelles Babylones, des villes idéales surtout pour les riches et les investisseurs
September 2019 Interviewed by Kerry Gold for The Globe and Mail: Housing experts push Liberals for expanded housing speculation tax
September 2019 Interviewed by Michael Enright for CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition: The global explosion of cities built from scratch sparks hope and concern (25 minutes)
July 2019 Interviewed by Ainslie MacLellan for CBC Daybreak about new cities. (radio)
July 2019 Interviewed by Sylvie St-Jacques for Le Devoir about new cities: Nouvelles villes, meilleur monde?
July 2019 Interviewed by Nick Van Mead for The Guardian about new cities: Cities from scratch: Watch new cities rise from the desert, jungle and sea
July 2019 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for The Guardian about new cities: Should we build cities from scratch?
May 2019 Interviewed by Daniel Butler for Razor's Edge about new cities and sustainability (radio).
March 2019 Interviewed by Sonali Karnick on Our Montreal about my new cities research (TV).
March 2019 Interviewed for National Geographic (The City Issue) on urban planning in new master-planned cities: To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars
March 2019 Featured in a 16-minute segment on CBC's The National about my research on new urban mega-developments in Malaysia: 'Smart' cities promise economic and environmental benefits to the developing world
March 2019 Interviewed by Michelle Gagnon for the CBC about my research on new cities: 'This is big money': New cities promise a smarter, greener future but will reality match the pitch?
September 2018 Interviewed by Cristina Lindblad for Bloomberg Businessweek about new cities: 'The irresistible urge to build new cities from scratch'
September 2018 McGill University Faculty of Science article about my work: 'New cities may make millions more vulnerable to climate change'
August 2018 Interviewed by Michelle Martin for MoneyFM 89.3, a Singapore-based business radio station about how recently announced limits on foreign investment in Malaysia may affect the Chinese mega-development, Forest City.
August 2018 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for The Guardian about new Arab cities ('Five years ago there was nothing: Inside Duqm, the city rising from the sand')
August 2018 Invited speaker at KentPresents
March 2018 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for Forbes about new cities in Saudi Arabia and globally ('Ghost towns or boomtowns? What new cities really become')
March 2018 Interviewed by Brook Larmer for the New York Times about Forest City, Malaysia ('A Malaysian insta-city becomes a flash point for Chinese colonialism - and capital flight')
Nov 2017 Interviewed by Karin Laub (AP) about new cities in the Middle East (‘Jordan’s plan of a shiny city in the desert met by skepticism’)
August 2017 Interviewed by New Cities Foundation about greenfield cities (‘NewCities Associate Fellow Sarah Moser Unpacks Greenfield Cities’)
July 2017 Interviewed by Wade Shepard for Forbes about the new cities phenomenon for a series of articles about new cities (‘Why hundreds of completely new cities are being built around the world’)
Oct 2016 Interviewed by Naki B. Mendoza for Devex.com about new cities ('What are “new cities” and why they matter for development')
May 2016 Interviewed by Sarah Murray for the Financial Times about Yachay Knowledge City, Ecuador (‘How to avoid high-tech “crash and burn” ghost towns’)
May 2016 Interviewed by Brendan O’Boyle for the Americas Quarterly about Yachay Knowledge City, Ecuador
October 2015 Interviewed by Brianna Lee for the International Business Times about Yachay Knowledge City, Ecuador (‘Ecuador’s Silicon Valley? Quito bets big to be South America’s next high-tech powerhouse’)
2015 Interviewed by Monocle Magazine about new cities
July 2014 Interviewed by Jim Wyss for the Miami Herald about Yachay Knowledge City, Ecuador (‘Ecuador is betting $1 billion that a dream city can make it a high-tech leader’)