# The world's first programmable city -- Woven City

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2020-01-13

architecture, autonomous-vehicles, bjarke-ingels, bjarke-ingels-group, ces, consumer-electronics-show, design, dezeen, las-vegas, mobility, mount-fuji, show, tech, toyota, urbanism, woven-city

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Last week was CES in Las Vegas. Some or many of you were probably there. One of the things that was announced at the show was a project by [Bjarke Ingels Group](https://big.dk/#projects) for Toyota called the Woven City. Situated at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, the development sits on a 70 hectare site and will eventually house some 2,000 people.

The objective is for it to act as a living laboratory for a number of new city building initiatives, ranging from autonomy and mobility as a service to multi-generational living and hydrogen-powered infrastructure. Woven City is intended to house not only residents, but also researchers who can test out and learn from these new ideas.

Below is a short video [from Dezeen](https://www.dezeen.com/2020/01/07/big-toyota-woven-city-future-mount-fuji-japan/). It's entirely visual. No words. There's also [an official website](https://www.woven-city.global/), but not much is up there yet. Hopefully there will be more soon. Construction is set to start next year (2021) and it'll be BIG's first project in Japan.

https://youtu.be/MsuX2OyHRvI

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/the-worlds-first-programmable-city-woven-city)*