>>212475080 (OP)the egyptians are still in the process of building their new capital though... also indonesia's pick is way zoomed in
>>212475114how else would you deal with pic related? building proper infrastructure once every square millimeter is being used is nearly impossible, you need to bulldoze and scrap tons of buildings, leaving people homeless, and at that point, it would be cheaper to found a new city
it's also not crazy at all, egyptians have historically built on top of the floodplains for simplicity, but every piece of land they use for buildings, is a piece of potential farmland that you lose, so their government has been encouraging building towns a bit inland, freeing up valuable land, and also lowering contamination on the nile
the issue with their new capital is that their government has been treating the new capital in particular as more of a prestige project for the wealthy and powerful rather than a proper urban development for the masses, all while having a ton of denbts