The ADU cutback, after a lengthy council meeting, caps the number of units builders can construct in even the largest backyards at six.

Last year, New York City rolled out a pilot program that awarded 15 homeowners with up to nearly $400,000 in funding per household to build an extra dwelling in their backyard, basement, or attic.

Akon City, a creation of Senegalese American singer Akon, is planned as a futuristic smart city. For now, it's the quiet coastal town of Mbodiène.

In one futuristic vision of New York City, the landscape of Central Park would be radically transformed and thousands more people would be able to see it from their windows.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: New York City Might Pay You to Construct or Retrofit a ‘Granny Flat’ in Your Backyard.

The world's new £7.8bn 'futuristic' city built at the base of beautiful volcano Woven City has been under construction since 2021 and promises one of the most advanced communities in the world.

Woven City isn't just for robots and tech; it's designed for people. The initial residents, expected to move in this fall, will be around 100 strong, primarily Toyota and "WbyT" (Woven by Toyota ...

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New aerial pictures show staggering scale of Saudi construction site for futuristic $1trillion city The Line with vast chasm carved through mountains in preparation for 75-mile-long skyscraper ...

New York City will be using drones to monitor large outdoor gatherings over the Labor Day weekend, police said Thursday. “If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard ...

It's taken 100 years to build the city of the future. Though dreamed of for decades, the transformation of Manhattan's West Side is coming to pass in the Hudson Yards district, an ambitious public ...