In 2012, the Government of Moscow staged an international competition to consider the expansion of the city of Moscow. Ten International/Russian teams of urbanists, architects and landscape architects were selected to participate. The task involved preparing a strategy for Moscow Region, for the expansion of the city and for the design of a new capital centre to the south-west of the city. The Capital Cities Planning Group consisting of Beasley Associates (Vancouver), Urban Design Associates (Pittsburgh), Gillespies (Glasgow), John Thompson & Partners (London) and Group Ark (Moscow) won the design competition supported by a team of engineers and economists - Nelson Nygaard (San Francisco), Buro Happold (Glasgow) & Prof Stuart Gulliver (Edinburgh).

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