Why Egypt Is Building a New Capital City

Plans to be an 'international city' borrowing ideas from all over the world, and learning the lessons from none of them. The inner administrative zone has a rational and grand plan about it, and then the rest if just rubbish. A car-dominated highway hell, copying all the worst mistakes of the USA to make a city that's nothing but an empty, unliveable sprawl, dominated by soulless highways and show-off monuments for the sake of trying to look cool. Where's the vision for how you get about in this mess WITHOUT a car? Will shops and conveniences be within 15 minutes walk from any given house? Can you get to work by efficient public transport? Is there even public transport? I suppose that's a great vision, just make everyone use cars. Space everything apart, maximise resource consumption for minimal cost-effectiveness. I'd love to support this idea, but there's hardly a single academically-informed choice about this whole thing. They just looked at the hideous mess that is Dubai, crossed that with the worst hell that crawled from US capitalism and threw it in the desert. Car-dominated wasteland cities in the 'west' are now turning to places like Kopenhagen or Amsterdam as model cities after realising that cities are supposed to be designed for humans, not cars. A liveable and desirable city is, first and foremost, a city built to the scale of a human, to be accessed easily by and catering to the natural abilities of a human. The wow factor of its scale and its vain monuments will age swiftly, and all that will be left is just isolating, monolithic wastes, costing hideous revenue to maintain over the long term for little return.