Masdar City (Arabic: مدينة مصدر, romanized: Madīnat Maṣdar, lit. 'Source City')[1] is an urban community in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It was built by Masdar, a subsidiary of the state-owned Mubadala Investment Company, with the majority of seed capital provided by the Government of Abu Dhabi.[2][3] Launched in 2006 as a $22 billion state-funded project to construct "the w