Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo

Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by sarsway on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:57AM (#26512737)

To be fair its not like they are moving the capitol hundreds of miles away inland. The new location is almost a suburb. Also Cairo gotta be one of the biggest craziest urban jungles in existence. Having grown organically since the beginning of time basically. Not to say this isn't political motivated, but sometimes is better to build up from scratch.

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Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by Someone on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:45AM (#26513907)

Also, the population of Cairo is growing by about 2% a year. That means it will double in about 35 years.

Looking at https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22812/cairo/population, that’s a slight slowdown from the 30 years it took them to go from 5 to 10 million or from 10 to 20 million, and looking at https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/EGY/egypt/population-g..., it may slow down further, but they need to build a lot of houses fast to accommodate that.

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Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by Hankenstein2 on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:40PM (#26516152)

I want to echo this. I am stunned anything productive gets done in Cairo. Flip a coin whether the traffic nightmare lets you get to a meeting on time or even the office in less than 4 hours.

I, probably naively, took this as more of an efficiency move rather than political.

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Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by forinti on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:46AM (#26513249)

Brasília could have been set up at Goiania, which is not too far. But the president wanted it be be built at exactly the centre of Brazil.

This certainly made it much more expensive as it was the middle of nowhere and there wasn't any infrastructure there.

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Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by distribot on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:14PM (#26516625)

Kinda curious now, are there other examples of cities like this? Rome? Jakarta?

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Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by umeshunni on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:26PM (#26516756)

Funny you mention Jakarta. Indonesia is also moving its capital out of Jakarta https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718234878/indonesia-plans-to-...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.0000...

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Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by ars on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:29PM (#26516794)

Jerusalem probably.

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Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by distribot on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:33PM (#26517404)

Jerusalem definitely has the age, but it's never struck me as a place of intense urban activity. Am I wrong?

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Re:Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from th... by ars on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:29PM (#26518304)

Depends where you go. The old city maybe not, but head to the rapidly growing neighborhoods on the edges of the city, and construction doesn't stop.

They keep growing the city larger and larger. Leave for 20 years and come back, and you don't recognize the scenery anymore.

Actually that's true in the old city as well - there is a huge commercial sector and it's very dynamic and alive.

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