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摘要

Robert Brumley Is A Most Unusual urban developer. While his peers scramble to invest in the next boomtown, he's funding-to the tune of nearly $1 billion-a metropolis made up of empty buildings and (mostly) earless streets. Brumley's technology firm, Pegasus Global Holdings, will soon break ground on a city intended not for people but for com- puters, sensor panels, and even robots. Over the next three years, the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation-or CITE-will rise in the New Mexico desert. Once completed, it will occupy roughly 20 square miles, taking the idea of an "urban laboratory" to a whole new level.