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Also this week: What robot cars are actually promising, and Morocco debuts a $700 million rocket-shaped tower.

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By Linda Poon

April 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC

Welcome to CityLab Weekly. Sign up here to get the newsletter every Friday in your inbox and send us your feedback. I’m Linda Poon, your guide to ideas, reporting and analysis from cities around the world.

Our team is headed to Madrid! The Bloomberg CityLab conference, hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute, will take place April 27 - 29 in the Spanish capital with mayors and urban planners from around the world. Featured speakers will include Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida, renowned architect Norman Foster and Anne Hidalgo, former mayor of Paris. Watch the live stream on Tuesday and Wednesday, starting at 10 a.m. Madrid time here. A schedule of streamed speakers is here. And look out for our special edition newsletters with highlights from each day.