Not too far from the northern Portuguese city of Porto, a city is being built from scratch. On a plot of 17 square kilometres, it is to accommodate 225,000 people, cost about €10 billion and should be ready by 2015. It will be Europe's first purpose-built, super-efficient, carbon-neutral smart city.
Headed up by former Microsoft and IBM employee Steve Lewis, the project will see thousands of engineers, scientists and technicians je...
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