Improve the original Cairo, by building public transport like Tehran or Beijing. Building new cities for rich people really won't make a dent in this problem.
*A costly mistake* until it becomes a *costly success* in a few years. With the scale of the project it is normal for it to last years until it is fully operational and functional. Also all the videos criticizing the decision never mention the resolutions to the underlying problem, which is overpopulation of Kairo. It is easy to change highways to nice parks in Western countries where the climate is mild, but nearly impossible here due to the fact that this is a desert- people won't walk there when the temperature outside is 50°C. They use the car and for that you need big highways, especially since it is a megacity with millions of people.
The amount of wrong information backed by doing zero research and having zero understanding of Egypt geography and nature or population Is just laughable How are there so many foreigners criticizing the new capital while citing such wrong information from these sources
This dystopian monstrosity is doomed to fail like all other similar projects. Functional architecture all other modern variations of that style (which architecture students are brainwashed with in 99,99% of schools) is not appealing to mass public, not because mass public is composed of unintelligent troglodytes, but because it is completely disassociated from humanity. Of course, I'm not saying that modern architects are not good in some scopes of architecture, but they put function above everything, beauty is completely abolished... And calling something like this sustainable is laughable. Yeah, you can probably do some bizarre number shenanigans and conclude that it will be net zero or something in XYZ years in ideal case, but that is not real sustainability. For something to be sustainable for starters it has to arise from natural needs of local community and grow and develop organically.
You blame the new capital on the free market, but it's not their fault the government is relocating 75km away from the city. If the government was more rational and chose to build the new capital on the outskirts, building more reasonably-sized government buildings, the free market would also not build 75km away from Cairo. The rest of your video was excellent, though.
The fact that this city is not in the middle of nowhere it’s also connected by other major expansion cities like 6th of October and sheikh zayed plus the city is connected with new and old Cairo with lrt trains and the longest monorail in the world
