As usual, great journalism from The Guardian. ❤️
New planned cities often have this problem. But in long term I don’t think it will stay a ghost city if the government moves there.
That being said they could have upgraded an existing city on Borneo instead of going through the pain of building a completely new one.
Like 50% of China cities?
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Unlike many other countries in the world, Spirits have the same right as humans in Manchuria. Your anti spirit racism is just disgusting.
Me looking up the project: At least they figured out that they need a metro, given they plan the Nusantara Autonomous Rail Transit. Turns out it is a bus.
I didn’t even know this was a thing before reading that article but I’m going to engage in some wild supposition.
I’m going to suppose that many of those in the outgoing presidents cabinet were heavily invested in companies involved in industries such as production of construction materials, transport of those materials, and of course construction.
I also predict that in the not so distant future they will find significant deficiencies in the buildings which have been constructed, such as defective materials, insufficient concrete density, insufficient foundations, and so on.
That’s all possible. But they need to move because Jakarta is fucked. It’s sinking faster than an other city in the world and they have no way of controlling that rate because the city is full of unregulated wells.
Half as Interesting just did a video about this.
(That said, they could’ve just moved to another city rather than building a new one.)
