Relocate like an Egyptian

[trader/warrior]

Is this the "New Cairo City" that is already east of cairo? I randomly ended up looking at that area in google earth some time ago. Place is full of horribly artificial looking street structures slapped randomly out in the middle of the desert with place names like South Investors Area. Horrible. I don't see why they would want to add to it.

 

[Borachio]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cairo

Er...

Anyone read arabic?

 

[r16]

the massive cost and prospects of bringing in Western influence will summarily ease the challenges of facing the Salafists who as one presumably already knows are managed by the Arab capital that resides around the Gulf .

 

[NovaKart]

Some of the writing is too small for me to make out but going by the color codes - they have living areas for villas, normal housing, youth housing, military area, industrial areas, green areas, embassy area, American university area, even a tourist area and cemetery.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Myanmar did this, I think not very long ago. Also, Ivory Coast. Also Nigeria and Kazakhstan but I'm not sure if they did this some time ago or if it's more recent.

Brazil did this too - they cut down a bunch of jungle and built Brasilia where there used to be...jungle. It also helped bankrupt the country and bring down the regime of the time.


I'm ambivalent about this because of the point Borachio made - this could just turn out to be an exclusive area for elites to live. To an extent, every city already has areas like that but this would be taking it to an extreme. Have they published any plans on how they plan to populate this city? Open to all comers? Or only those with big wallets?


And $30bn seems too small to be a viable budget. Slap another 0 on there and I think it'll be closer to the mark.

 

[warpus]

From what I read, they are doing this because the old city lacks a lot of infrastructure, and it's hard to build anything there, since whenever you dig down you hit old buildings that may have historical value, so you've got to be careful, call in teams of archaeologists, etc. But that's just something I read on reddit, so take it with a grain of whatever.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Brazil did this too - they cut down a bunch of jungle and built Brasilia where there used to be...jungle. It also helped bankrupt the country and bring down the regime of the time.


I'm ambivalent about this because of the point Borachio made - this could just turn out to be an exclusive area for elites to live. To an extent, every city already has areas like that but this would be taking it to an extreme. Have they published any plans on how they plan to populate this city? Open to all comers? Or only those with big wallets?


And $30bn seems too small to be a viable budget. Slap another 0 on there and I think it'll be closer to the mark.

I seem to recall some other country land filling a swamp and abandoning Philadelphia...