If completed, the currently nameless city would span 700 sq km (a space almost as big as Singapore), house a park double the size of New York's Central Park, and a theme park four times as big as Disneyland – all to be completed within five to seven years.
In the Favela do Moinho, the last favela standing in central São Paulo, the water supply of around 2,500 residents hangs on a single, impossibly slender blue PVC pipe that runs beneath the dirt on the nameless main drag.
The nameless "other" becomes the identifiable "I"; the unimaginably different becomes remarkably familiar.
Compare the logic of those nameless bankers with the arguments of Judt or Parry-Jones, which are underpinned with a sense of responsibility that goes beyond self-interest and dissembling.
Beside the message was a photograph of a nameless elderly Somali woman swathed in a red scarf, her lips pressed tightly together, wrinkly palm outstretched, eyes gazing imploringly out of the computer screen.
They were told the nameless "next of kin" had emptied Carole's flat and driven off in her car.
Before one match in Port Clarence everyone was in the car park where we got picked up, waiting on one bloke, who shall remain nameless, and we were just thinking, "Well, where is he?" when the manager, Nige, came along and said, "Oh, his house has been raided by the police, we won't be seeing him today".
For the aspiring dame, the selectors' reverence for acting over all other extra-governmental careers, even sporting ones, indicates performance (take royal/upscale roles for preference) as the most reliable route, with or without some low-key charitable work, undertaken, in common with Britain's millions of nameless volunteers, with no thought of public acclaim.
And it has earned the author both the 2015 Prix Goncourt for best first novel and a Facebook fatwa from a minor Muslim cleric calling for his death.The book starts as a caustic, rambling monologue told by an old man in a bar to an appropriately nameless French expat.
Behind her stands a thin teenager, a nameless hoodie who would have loved a mobile and prosperity.
This nameless person nudged the human race over an historic threshold, for it was in that year according to the United Nations, at least that mankind became, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.It is a trend that shows no sign of slowing.
