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Masdar City is a master-planned, mixed-use sustainable urban district in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, that combines a residential and commercial neighbourhood with a business free zone and a clean-technology innovation cluster. Launched in 2006 as a roughly $22 billion state-backed project designed by Foster + Partners, it was developed by Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) and remains under Mubadala Investment Company's ownership. Its commercial offering is twofold: leasing sustainable office, retail and residential space, and selling company-formation and licensing packages through Masdar City Free Zone, which offers 100% foreign ownership, flexible licence structures and a One-Stop-Shop portal. The district hosts institutions and companies including the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Siemens and GE, and includes flagship buildings such as NZ1, the region's first net-zero energy commercial building, and Masdar City Square (MC2). Original targets — a car-free city of 50,000 people completed by 2016, later 2030 — have been repeatedly delayed, and the district now grows at a market-driven pace, drawing both praise as a living sustainability laboratory and criticism as an unfinished eco-city.
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