I hope the new city is pedestrian friendly. New cities have the chance to move away from relying heavily on cars hence reducing traffic, noise and pollution. Just hope they grab that chance. I’ve visited Dubai on many occasions and you can’t get from one neighbourhood to another without hitting a motorway. It would be great to see more thought, innovation and flair put into designing this new city.
@@penguinpingu3807 There are smart mass transportation, and the large areas will be gardens and a green outlet to help cool the atmosphere in the summer. The city is expected to accommodate nearly ten million citizens. There must be a place in the design for the future. And everything is planned, even if they want to make a trolleybus or a frequency bus, its place will be ready
@@abomoaaz7245 I think a metro would be more feasible as for a city expecting to accommodate 10 million people. As a metro is able to move people in a larger capacity. And it won't disturb or even get stuck on traffic. But buses or tollybuses are better than nothing I suppose. I hope Egypt will have a bright future. (And I actually meant it.)
You should have added that the new city is going to be between to Suez canal and Cairo. Also, the new capital city will be linked with the metro, monorail, and a High-speed railway.
@@gitgut4977 that’s bs because all of these transportation modes are not to “create ridership” to the new capital but to actually facilitate the movement of people between the populous cities in the Nile valley and the Suez Canal Special economic zone with all its surrounding manufacturing cities so that it facilitates creating jobs in the process and lift millions out of poverty. So we are following the Chinese model, in the future this new capital is bound to be fully populated because of its strategic location in a huge economic corridor connecting the Mediterranean and the red seas.
Loved seeing the storytelling on this one. Making it a 15 minute long story with only voice over and maps must have been hard. Very informative, enjoyed it alot.
Spent 4 days in Cairo in November 2018. Uninhabited apartment block buildings everywhere, most without glass in the windows. It was explained to me that purchasers/lessees were expected to buy the glass and appliances, etc. themselves. As far as I could see, then, many buildings had barely 50% occupancy. I don't, therefore, see the whole "housing shortage" issue. It looks like corrupt builders have been able to secure permissions with no oversight or reference to any kind of zoning or other planning regs. and have built willy-nilly all over the city. The massive grinding poverty in which the vast majority of the population lives makes such spaces unattainable and the shoddy construction means the middle classes don't want them. So much easier for elites to head out to the desert, build their own utopia, and let Cairo go to the starving dogs, cats, donkeys, people, and oblivious tourists. Nothing on the images you provide shows where the slaves on whose backs most of this will run are to live. Also, who is paying for all this? Has Egypt become progressive and gone for a tax the rich self-financing scheme or are the poor and middles classes shouldering a deeply unfair tax burden while the corrupt government goes heavily in debt to "whom"???? Reminds me of Greece just after joining the EU/euro. The generals and their cronies made out like bandits on all the loans and now ordinary Greeks have been suffering for 12 years and will keep on suffering for another decade at least. The average citizen of Cairo or rural Egypt will never see inside any of those facilities or benefit in the least from "the tallest building in Africa".
I totally agree. There are only two ways something like this works: incredible wealth, unity, and cooperation- or tyrannical slave labour. I guess Egypt really is resurrecting old traditions…
Here is the thing : the government published the master plan on the desert, land have zero value, then pledges to build the infrastructure and the land become worthy of investment..so then government sells huge plots to private real estate developers and then use the money to build the promised infrastructure and low cost housing mainly to house poor people who live in slums on long term subsidized cheap loans.
@@MoReal2 Right but Egypt does not have any serious tourism except brief visits to the pyramids and the local population only makes like $130 a week. What are these real-estate companies going to do to make profit? Not to mention that they are trying to out do Dubai with less slave labour, no serious oil money or control over the global oil market, and while actively in a water shortage (soon war).
@@MoReal2 Why not just invest the billions of dollars into infrastructure and poverty in their current capital, that has access to the pyramids? Just seems like a dick measuring contest for oligarchs.
@@Peglegkickboxer not sure where you are getting your info from, but Egypt is a popular tourist destination for British, Germans, Italians and Russians. Cairo was already overcrowded with many slums in the old town occupying central cairo. This project is a master move by the gov as they get to stimulate the economy with private money, while moving poor people from slums into affordable low cost hosing for free while solving congestion problems too. Egypt is not trying to out do dubai...Dubai real estate is intended for luxury buyers while Egypts real estate market is driven by internal demand..there are 5 to 6 million Egyptian expatriates in the gulf countries alone and they will def buy into this project.. Plus, Egypt have a diverse economy unlike the gulf countries which relies solely on revenues from oil and gas..
I hope Egypt makes sure, public transportation is a thing and doesn’t ignore it, traffic *cannot* be solved by building more streets. Even if some people thinks otherwise
Love seeing these mega/legacy projects. Years later you see how these projects, initiatives have come together and whether they stayed true to original plans or not and whether they were sort on budget/encountered financial turmoil. Loved this video.
It feels like it will be a city without any soul. Planned out cities like this probably sound nice on paper and look impressive in the first moment but don't at all fit to egypt or its population. I am doubtful that this will be nice.
Don't worry this city will be filled with people like any other project especially since new laws are preventing the expansion of the new residential building in cities to make sure that these new cities have residents. For the funding and whether or not the project will be completed. I assure you it will be completed regardless of any problem it may face (other than the fall of the current regime) because it is controlled by the military and we are bleeded dry so that the government gets the money it needs to complete these projects.
There is a very interesting plan in place that would put nuclear powerplants and desalinization plants in the South of Israel underground and Israel would share the energy and water with Jordan Saudi Arabia and Egypt. But most Egyptians are not in favor of this plan because they hate Israel. The countries that agree to the plan would gain huge strategic advantages.
@@kaisersaltyvonsaltenburg3298 Egypt and Israel have no competing geopoltiical interests. The only reason they've been at odds is Egypt's sympathy for the Palestinians, which with Pan-Arabism and Pan-Islamism increasingly disfavoured by the Egyptian establishment, is less of a factor now. Egypt and Israel are today de-facto allies, supporting each other's plans for economic development and cooperating to resist Turkish attempts to dominate the eastern Mediterranean. Of course, if Egypt were to become an actual democracy at some point, and the will of the Egyptian people started to factor into Egypt's foreign policy, this could change very rapidly.
To summarize : 1. They have too much traffic but instead of developing public transportation they build more roads and a new city centre. 2. They have a systemic water shortage and will solve it by building a city in the desert. Great plans, good luck Egypt!
Regarding the first point They aren't solving traffic problems with developing more roads and the new capital will have accessible public transportation In cairo we are expanding metro lines,monroals and building a new railway same with the capital,we don't have much cars problem is that more than 22 million of us live in cairo,density is extreme . Regarding 2nd point I agree with it,I have no clue how we are gonna irrigate it
@@ahmedelnokrashi8324 Egypt with 100M inhabitants cannot rely anymore only on the Nile river even without the Ethiopian dam, the only solution is water desalination and a more severe birth control. 100M in the desert is insane
@@HTProducer I am aware of that that is why I said I have no idea how he is gonna supply a man made river a park 6× central park plus different plantings and neighbourhood parks
Seems like they are building this new city to be very car dependent. If that is the case it might even worsen the traffic situation in old Cairo as well.
Yea. I've critiqued and critiqued but they don't understand. Dubai has huge highways and huge roads but faces congestion I'm occasionally too because of how car dependant the city is.
Not a single mention of trains or metro's so yeah, its going to be completely depended on road traffic. It's going to be a US asphalt dystopian hellhole
I'm glad that they're building the new cities in the desert. I remember when my family and I stayed in Egypt and visited Alexandria, an Austrian architect told my dad he was sick and tired of having to call the Ministry of Antiquities every time they dug a hole for construction because they keep finding historical artifacts that needed to be cleared! 😂😂😂 We saw Ptolemaic coins they found. Very cool! Only in Egypt!
We have saying in egypt. That’s goes in Africa they dig and find gold, in Arabia they dig and find oil, in egypt we dig and find history (p.s ik Egypt is in Africa lol)
I am still mustering the will to get a shovel and check a strange pile of ancient rooftiles in my fields 99% chance I'll lose half a day digging for more broken tiles, but anyways
As an Egyptian it really hurts to see that Cairo will no longer be Egypt’s capital Yeah i get it they made it to stop the traffic madness in Cairo but Cairo is VERY old that it’s actually older than some countries and it contains a lot of history every cm if you really want to end the “traffic madness “ then renovate the other cities in Egypt if u looked at us you will find the most of the Egyptians only live Alexandria and Cairo ( i said most ) so why not put some attention to the other cities and put people to work there instead of them traveling here to find a job
على فكرة اسكندرية كانت عاصمة مصر لفترة طويلة جدا لحد ما اتعملت القاهرة وبقت العاصمة هو ده حال الدنيا . عموما القاهرة بما فيها تاريخ وحضارة هتتحول لمدينة سياحية من الطراز الاول لما تتنقل العاصمة والقاهرة تنفض الغبار اللي عليها هتبقا احسن واشهر بكتير من دلوقتي
After reading a lot comments talking about public transportation, I can tell you as an architect involved with the construction of several parts of the new capital, I've come in contact with a lot of ambitious public transportation projects being built already. To name a few; Transportation Hub, Mono Rail, LRT, Electric Bus network, and the High Speed train. I'm not an expert on this manner, but I can tell you that the planners did put a lot of work in solving these problems before they occur. The Mono rail for example will link horizontally from East (Red Sea city called Ein Sokna) to West of Cairo (Industrial district of 6th October city) thus reducing a trip that usually takes more than two hours to less than an hour. The LRT will link diagonally the different urban cities around Cairo. I believe that the creator can make a whole video talking about the new transportation infrastructure being built.
@@tigress63 we don't know for sure if self driving cars will take over, either way it will be a long time for a country like egypt to implement this even when its established in the west. also please don't speak on behave of the Egyptian people if you're not egyptian, the culture and the education level here is very different from the west and you probably don't understand what egyptians want.
Regardless of transportation plans etc., that layout of super wide avenues will deter the pedestrians and likely cycles - the two most sustainable means of transportation
Two of my concerns: 1) Water? How will it get it? 2) Public Transport? Considering the amount of congestion that initiated this thing in the whole place, what public transport systems will be implemented? edit: I've read all of your comments. From what I've gathered: - Water should not be as big of an issue human consumption wise, as supposedly it is only an issue in the Agriculture sector. - As for Public Transport, I can see that there are plans to expand the metro and bus systems (very cool), a High-speed railway to link the major cities (also very cool), and build an LRT and monorail system in New Cairo. Implementing monorail would be rather challenging as not many transport systems use it, so sticking to just LRT would probably be a safer choice, but better than nothing I suppose. - There are arguments on the grounds that Egypt's military is sucking Egyptian coffers dry. Due to my political beliefs, I do agree to some extent with this statement, but ultimately it is the choice of the Egyptian and only the Egyptian people to decide what they want in a Government, and if they demand a strong military, then so be it. TL;DR Egypt is making good strides towards their vision of the Cairo Metro (and surrounding cities), but things can most certainly be made even better.
Water was never a problem and never will be a problem for Egyptians. It is a problem for crops, for agriculture. Egyptians have plenty of drinking water and compared to Gulf countries Egyptians seldom drink mineral water and all drink tap water and filter tap water. Water bill is extremely cheap in Egypt and water outage is rare. Drinking water is abundant in Egypt. Problem comes when it has to do with agriculture. In that vein, Egypt needs a lot more water than it has now to feed all its agricultural lands. This means Egypt either has to modernize and make their farms more efficient or increase water share from elsewhere. But in the context of an urban city with 0 crops, who cares? Public transport plans are already in development whether the monorail or the LRT, but either way Egyptians are not strangers to long distances in Cairo. This city is not the first neighbourhood to be built miles away from central Cairo, this trend has been going on for decades. Cities like Madinity, Shorouk, New Cairo, October, Sheikh Zayed, are all plenty of distance away from central Cairo, and are self-sufficient and travel is by car. Since this is an important capital though, Egypt plans to introduce actual transport systems like LRT and Monorail, which will not only help get to the capital but help all those suburbs I mentioned earlier to be better reached. This trend is probably even older than you think as cities like Nasr city are the older generation of these outskirt plans but now it is fully integrated into Cairo.
Lol do you think any of the government officials that thought this stuff up actually care about public transport? They just get chauffered around in their Limos and have police make space in traffic jams. The plebians can be stuck in traffic jams who cares lol got my Octagon (get it, it's more than PENTAgon)
@@ChaplainDMK yes government officials in Egypt care about public transport they already built a Monorail line & an LRT Train to transport people to & from The New Administrative Capital , additionally a new train is being built right now and will be fully finished in 2024/2025
@@MohamedYasser-xq8ks Dude, that's not public transport. Public transport is a system that needs to connect people to different suburbs, their work, places of recreation and leisure, commerical districts etc.. A monorail to and from the administrative capital is nothing. You need rapid transirt - suburban railroads, metro, and tram networks that connect New Cairo to all other districts and central Cairo. The Cairo public transport system is a joke for 20 million people. It's comparable to Prague, a city 5% the size of Cairo proper. Forget about places like Istanbul, Paris, London, Berlin etc. that have dozens of lines and hundreds of kilometers of metro and suburban rail, tram and bus services connecting every part of the city with intervals of 3-10 minutes 24/7. Instead of the government investing in creating this and also solving the traffic issues in central Cairo, they decide to run away to a vanity project out in the desert with enormous government buildings, palaces, and parks for the ultra wealth and powerful, while leaving the poor and working class to deal with the traffic and pollution of "Old" Cairo.
@@ChaplainDMK The Monorail will have 6 stations inside the city to transport people to and from places INSIDE the new Administrative Capital , The LRT Train will have 3 or 4 stations working inside the city, sure they could do more but you're acting as if they can't build a metro line or do further expansions in the future for public transportation, they're already building a huge bus stations that will deliver people from and to the New Capital and of course serve people needs within the city itself
Thanks dude it's really heartwarming to see such a nice comment from someone at Greece Greece us Egyptians may god bring peace and blessings to your land my friend
I’ve been reading about the new administrative capital of Egypt for some time now. Your video is excellent, one of the best I’ve seen yet and it gives me an even greater reason to visit Egypt in the next decade. Thank you!
Greetings from egypt. 2026 would be when everything comes together regarding mega projects in egypt. It would be a great time to see how the old meets the new.
@@JamesJJSMilton Lol, it lasted for 5300 years through wars, occupations, famines, natural disasters, civil wars. It will last till the day the world ends. Cause Egypt is not based on, ethnicity, race, religion, tibe, dynasty, language, abundance of resources. It's based on a resilient idea and ideas don't die.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@acutee2 bruh chill out first 2nd he took all of those pictures from the internet and it was posted only by Egyptian government so you won't find any other website post about it 3rd it isn't sponsored by the Egyptian government and if egypt would like to share such a thing they would just share it without taking to a content creator like neo 4th the new administration capital has been in progress for a couple of year so if they wanted to share something they would have shared it years ago so your comment is just sitting on the content creator and the country
@@acutee2 calling well established youtubers paid actors when they don't fit you narrative won't convince westerners, even egyptians won't fall for that .
Hey bro... I have only two simple questions... 1. From where will the new capital get the water in future coz Egypt is going through a water crisis.... 2. How will they complete this Ultra Mega project coz the financial condition of Egypt is not good on international level.... From my POV instead of making a new city by copying Dubai, Paris and Random US city... They should have to focus on how to develop the real Ciaro.... These are just my points...
Water will become a big problem due to climate change and the Ethiopian dam. The Nile will contain less water in the future. However, the government will probably just prioritize water flow to this new city as government members will live there. Meanwhile, Cairo and other cities will suffer the consequences. I don't even want to imagine the conditions in the slums of the old cities in the upcoming decades. New Cairo city will become the hub for Egyptian elites such as military members and government officials. At the same time they will try to invite companies from all over the world just like Dubai did. The city will become an isolated protected fortress for the rich and powerful.
1. The water problem in egypt and every middle east country tbh is complicated, 80% l of nile water that reaches egypt is used for agriculture, so supplying water to a city is no issue the issue is how to feed the growing population with scars water supply. 2. The government sold most the land to real estate companies foreign and egyption on the promise that they build the utility ( roads , electricity, water ) , so most if not all of the residential area for high mid class and the rich only They are developing Giza and Cairo even relocating a whole communities who lives in what you call a slums into new neighborhoods that built from scratch .
If planned cities are extremely reliant on cars, they are already half a failure. With a strong emphasis on public transport, you can plan a city compactly and efficiently. This is far too extensive, and a waste of a large amount of resources. You separate districts from one another through the multi-lane roads and reduce the life quality of the inhabitant unnecessarily.
the video ignored the transportation not the Egyptian government because there's 100 km light electric railway will connect the cairo subway lines to new capital from the north of the capital to its heart to the Olympic complex and will open in three months from now and there's 60 km monorail line begin from Cairo subway lines passing through new cairo and will be parallel to the green River and will connect with the electric train inthe heart of the capital and that will open next year and there's third transport project under construction which is high speed railway network consent of three lines first line under construction will connect the red sea to the Mediterranean sea passing through the new capital intersect with the light electric train in the Olympic complex and will pass through cairo giza alexandria and marsa matroh in the Mediterranean 660 km and there's another two high speed railway lines under negotiation one of them will be parallel to the nile
@@KemetEG I just Read your comment. And literally all the things you mentioned are things coming. Basic public transportation should already be the already there in cities where regular egyptians live. And if you want to ask. I have been to Cairo and public transport is very poor for An MEGACITY.
@@skrettsnerk508 You are wrong, an excessive 'Adam Something' enjoyer! But cars have annoyed me since I lived for the first time in a city 5 years ago. And we keep growing. Hopefully to a serious interest group soon.
@@hageneesje yes but this projects under construction not plans .. yes cairo has bad public transportation Only three subway lines to city host twenty millions but the government is building another two subway lines and third one under planning but you know subway projects need times compared with trains on the surface or even monorail and there's no space in Cairo so subway lines are the only solution but it need times
@@KemetEG I really hope that the projects Will succeed. Like not only for the new glamorous cities but also for the cities that already there. And that should come 1st
All the most interesting questions are not asked, much less answered: where will power and water come from? What kind of urban transport is the city being built for? What logistical hurdles does building and living in the desert present, and how will they be dealt with? What do futurists and urban planners think about this? Where else in.the world have other such cities and government mega-projects succeeded, and where have they failed? What lessons have been learned? What does this project say, good and bad, about Egypt as a society?
power is easy to solve given its a desert, wind and solar power are fairly easy to get. water is the harder part and will be a very interesting problem to solve
Egypt has a 30MW surplus of power that it exports, 20% from renewables, the rest from natural gas. Transport is electric bus, LTR, monorail, and highspeed electric rail. Egypt doesn't have a choice but to build in the desert, whatever hurdles there are they are nothing to compared to what awaits if they don't move out of the Nile valley, fast.
@@ofroaddude5859 Surplus of electricity production*. It's also a net exporter of natural gas, but that's a separate thing. The natural gas it imports (e.g. from Israel and Cyprus) is for liquidation and reexport, not local consumption.
As large as these new cities are, it should eleviate space so they can rebuilt large sections of Old Cairo to be more transit and buissness friendly while retaining some of the vital old neigboorhoods and individual buildings for tourist and cultural sake. Connecting all the cities by mass transit and make Cairo a world class city would be a must for that. it would be a shame if they tried to seperate the city to keep the common man out of these modern portions! I wished you displayed these aspects of the new city!
I see this city´s future being like one of those chinese abandoned mega-cities, or a vacation spot for the egyptian elite, like forest city in Malasya. It´s really hard to imagine the new capital sustaining a massive population with very clear problems (mainly water supply)
تخطيط المدينه يسع أربعين مليون مواطن هتقضي على الازدحام تماما والمياه لقد قمنا بالفعل بإنشاء محطات ضخمه للتحليه والنهر الأخضر قأئم على الصرف الزراعي من المياه المهدره وتوفير المياه للزراعه
Western media claim cities built by China like Kilamba are ghost towns but this is not true at all, they are full and vibrant, just watch videos from locals to see for yourself.
abandoned mega cities? lol, you mean like Shenzhen which China turned it from a small fishing village into the most futuristic city in the world with 12+ million population in just 40 years? I guess you are one of those people who prefer to be helped by westernern countries like USA. Speaking of Americans, they could only complete some 30 km length of high speed rail in the last 20 years while the Chinese has built a HSR network of 40,000 km during that time span. you should be grateful that China is working on this project, BTW, it's 2023 and the project is on schedule and soon will be handed into the hands of Egyptian government.
Very informative. As someone living in Egypt with little knowledge of the city, absolutely loved the video. My only concern is of how it's planning to tackle the water shortage and when is it expected to actually hit the country. Thanks for the video!
The government constructs the city and all other cities in the desert to shift population growth from the Nile valley to the desert. So, it will decrease the illegal building on fertile lands and inhibit population growth in old cities to maintain fertile lands for agriculture.
By tapping into underground water and using sra water distillation. There is no other choice. Egyptians will reach 150 million by 2030. The nile's water won't increase by 50%
This reminds me what happened here in Brazil during the 1950s With president Kubitschek. The dude decided to relocate the nation's capital (it was Rio at the time) to a more strategic location. Problem was that instead of picking a city like São Paulo or Belo Horizonte, the dude decide to create a new city from scratch (Brasília, our current capital) the amount of money that was lost at this project was so great that in the end the creation of Brasília brought more dispair than actual prosperity 😬
Actually the idea of making the capital at the central plateau wasn't his. It was already a century old at the time. And I dispute the Idea that Brasilia wasn't profitable: it is the 3rd largest city in Brazil today and it is at the very center of the area with the fastest growing sector in the country's economy: Tropical Agriculture.
It’s exciting to learn that Egypt is going big building for the future. With its unmatched history of architecture and distinct aesthetic I’m filled with anticipation of a new wonder all of humanity can take pride in.
@@martinbrown2268 can’t wait for this to sit as a half finished failure in the middle of a dessert just like what the saudis did. When will the Dumbass governments realize they can’t just will these grand cities into existence they are far to ambitious and the demand for the expensive housing and excessive sports venues will never be there. Not to mention moulding a city out of little districts connected with highways lacks so much foresight it’s almost unbelievable considering they problem they are trying to escape is congestion.
This is a great capture of the ongoing project but you missed one important topic which is transportation from the new capital to other cities and within the new capital itself. You should check it out, it's worth another episode. Keep up the good work bro 👌👏
I live in Australia and I can't help but find the construction of Egypt's new capital completely exciting! I am a bit of an Architect myself and I have fallen in love with the new design for Egypt. I cant wait to see the city in its full completion!
Ok sir . President Sisi has already ordered the gouvernment to move to the new capital . And inaurgation will be next year may be the 1st quarter The 1st phase is almost finished ,2nd one in 2025 and 3rd and final one in 2030
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
I appreciate the efforts to reference their history and Egyptian identity in their architecture and city planning. That is an apportunity that was squandered by cities like Dubai.
@@saptaccrvima3563 Fair point, but Dubai represents a region, and I'm sure I can think of a few designs that would distinctly reference Arabian heritage.
@@saptaccrvima3563 I wanted to comment in same vein. It is Egypt we're talking about here -- not some nondescript land; unless one doesn't know what Egypt means in history
@@RockBrentwood If these projects don't come to life and the economic and social situation worsens especially with the water crisis, people will revolt AGAIN, now that's something "Dubai and KSA" don't want! so sure.. they will fund this alright
The main problem in Egypt is education, while the elite do have access to great institutions most of the population doesn't, and the elite generally have ambitions to leave the country for opportunities elsewhere (there has been cases where highly educated individuals where denied exit so they stay and work there) You can hardly make an international city without a penchant for innovation
@@alexbrands11 Garbage? I don’t see why you would say such a thing. Go have a look at your country first then come and talk about another country. Solve your issues first then try and solve others.
Even the “great” institutions arnt that great in my opinion. Schools anyway, I don’t know much about collages, but the level of education in schools is about the same with public schools in places like the UK and the USA in Egypt the only differences I can think of are the campus school trips and extra curricular activities. The main reason people from elite school get good grades is because they take a lot of private lessons
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
achik ahmed amine yup I’m a bedouin with a history and ancestors who changed your culture and language and religion forever , now you+ your father & grand father are named with arabic bedouin names ! So proud to be a bedouin 😆🇸🇦
The people of Egypt deserve to be physically separated from their government with the one road leading to said centre of power being controlled with dozens of military checkpoints?
@@Sami-jg6fh your ancestors didn’t change it lmao, without Islam. Y’all would have been barbaric. Sorry brother but you forget tot mention the main thing
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
I love hearing about these projects. It’s great to hear news like this instead of the constant mentions of war, waste and oil. Those subjects are ever-present in the history of man and it’s much healthier to focus on constructive and creative matters.
Love how they're combining their heritage and history with the modernity of a metropolitan city and capital. Aspiring. Just hope it won't be an empty city like some cities built from scratch.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
Well 6 new cities have been built in cairo from scratch in the past 40 years and no they are thriving, i live and work in one, much better than central cairo. new cap is bigger than all of them combined. Note: don't mind the trolls who spam each comment with copy pasted replies.
@@ma.s2386 Those cities are great and are for the people and have nothing to do with this new capitol. This move for the regime buildings is simply a way for the dictator to avoid protestors knocking at his door circa 2011/13. Sometimes trolls stand for more than sycophants like Neo who are obviously being paid to spread lies and bolster Sisi's shit that is hurting Egypt, its people and its neighboring countries. RESIST.
@@acutee2 Again you're cluless, i work there, it's nothing like you say. You actively advocating against building, what is that ? Resist what ? Building a better future ?
todays egyptians heritage is basically just arabs who took over the country 700bc, some few might be related to the ancients of egypt but very slightly.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Cairo bids for the Summer Olympics sometime in the future. Most infrastructure is already there thanks to these new cities and especially in the new capital. Those two sports complexes are looking very promising.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@acutee2 lol you are copy pasting the same comment on every thread. For the 2 child law, he did mention that it was an initiative not a law. Am not sure from where are you but traffic is definitely a major problem in Cairo and Giza. "These new universities are not being built", lol my sister is already in one of these universities, you can check their websites. What a liar. For halaib triangle, it is an Egyptian territory. Deal with it.
@@acutee2 I dont know where you do get your info from and i dont know what your intentions are, but you are doing nothing but bullshitting. The universities are up and running already and i've been working on the monorail project myself so i know a thing or two about the country's direction on doing an outstanding transportation system.
So obsessed with the heavy use of pharaonic/ancient Egyptian architecture in building this new capital. Impressive and shows direct continuity in Egyptian history.
U would be amazed by all the Pharaonic structure there, everything has something pharaonic in it and the Governmental district looks like historical site itself
I really hope that this new capital is more of a city than a massive monument like Brazil's Brasília. A massive hell of oversized building and seas of concrete/asphalt doesn't stimulate innovation and economic prosperity, and it will probably just propagate the transit problem.
@@leeo268 but, at least as it's shown in the video, the city is also inteded to be a economical/scientific center. And for that it needs to have the characteristics that bring people together.
my guess is that they are relying on the failed project of New Cairo & the surrounding cities to make it really work out fine. you have to cross New Cairo to go to the NCC from Cairo.
Don't worry, I can already smell a financial crisis for Egypt LOL. They are not capable of this project - This is a classic build like hell before a huge bust scenarios we have seen so many times before :p
I was in Cairo about six years ago and the biggest problem was not the traffic, it was the garbage. It piled up everywhere and our guide lived in a neighborhood that had a guards patrolling around the clock that no outsider could dump their garbage there. I hope, they are planning for those problems, too.
@@LlnusTechTips. I’m sure there are many mega projects in African countries that are being made. Like the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, and the Technology City in Kenya. And I also heard about the Dangote Oil Refinery in Nigeria.
@@Omer1996E.C I agree, these new mega projects that different countries are making is really interesting to hear. I just heard about the new capital city in Egypt. It’s fun to hear about great things coming in the future from many countries.
That looks like a nightmare for anyone outside of a car. Everything is spread so far apart and all the renderings seem to show 10-20 lane wide roads. Simply unbelievable that someone would think that's a good idea in 2021.
this isnt europe bro its too hot to expect the upper class to actually walk anywhere outdoors, although it would have been interesting to have an underground metro system for the public, and another underground system for the government, to facilitate below ground car-less traffic (this wasnt included in the video, but it was part of the planing for the city, not sure if its still as ambitious as it was intiially)
@@peterrooke5336 you are probably a black .. you guys the only ones that have this theory about us.. because you are trying to belong to any civilization to makeup for the oppression in your history by the Europeans.. but you picked the wrong civilization to stick yourself to it
This video really set this city as some Dubai in the making for some reason..but okay, they failed to mention the densely populated areas around the city and never-ending ports being built for the suez canal...and the facts that it's perfectly built to connect three of the biggest cities in the country and one of the richest and is going to be the heart of the country in every way shape and form
I really enjoyed this video and would like to answer the most commonly asked questions in the comments, 1- Regarding the transportation to/from and within the new Administrative Capital: Egypt is extending the highways and roads within the old Cairo and around it through establishing and upgrading the current road infrastructure. Egypt is also extending the Cairo Metro project to connect the western side of the Nile to the eastern side, and eventually linking the Metro to the biggest station connecting all railways: The Central Station "Adly Mansour" containing a subway station, an electrified train station, and a shuttle bus station to connect the Adly Mansour Central Station with the Cairo International Airport through a direct one trip. The Adly Mansour station also is the connecting station for the currently in-progress LRT (Light Rail Train). The LRT connects as far as the 6th of October City in the west, to the new Administrative Capital, and all the way to Ain Sokhna city on the western shore of the Red Sea's Gulf of Suez. The LRT would probably expand to reach the new Alamein city on the Mediterranean Sea western of Alexandria. In addition to all the projects established/under construction in the area of Giza, Alexandria, Cairo, New Cairo and the New Capital, the highways connecting all the governorates and cities in Egypt have been/are being upgraded in addition to a major overhaul of the railway lines and trains. 2- Regarding the no. 1 problem: Water poverty: Egypt is considering all the diplomatic solutions to solve any conflict around the construction of the GERD in Ethiopia. Moreover, Egypt is establishing a huge number of water treatment plants to repurpose agricultural and industrial waste for desert reclamation as "Bahr Al-Baqar Water Reclamation Plant" located on the western bank of the Suez Canal. It is considered the largest wastewater treatment plant in the world (The facility is composed of three plants which were garnered three titles from Guinness World Records, and they are the World’s Largest Water Treatment Plant; World’s Largest Sludge Plant; and, World’s Largest Ozone Generator). Egypt is also expanding in sea water desalination plants in newly established coastal cities especially in Sinai. In addition to the plans to increase the water resources, many governmental initiatives are on the ground to decrease water waste in homes, agriculture and industry as well. I tried to be as thorough as possible. All the details and further information regarding these projects and plans are available with a little Google search. I didn't want to put reference links in the comment in order not to be suspicious :D
@@freezingicy9457 If running an urban park six times larger than Central Park in the desert is an indication of how much thought they put in the entire project, then most likely it won't. This is why cities should be planned and built by people with degrees in the filed and not man-children with money and power.
Egyptian here living around 20 minutes away from the construction site. Say what you will about the government and their usual incompetence, but this project is honestly one of the few saving graces. Just hoping they do something so it doesn't turn into another traffic blackhole. I should also mention here that although this is inarguably the biggest ongoing project, work pace has picked up all over the country over the past two years, new roads are being built, thousands of miles and alternative routes. Infrastructure in general is going though a complete overhaul. New cities and housings etc. For once, I can proudly support their vision and what they're currently doing. Edit: Typos and phrasing
It’s annoying a.f. to write something that fucked so high by the people - everything should be measured to the perfection. But doesn’t stop higher to write something about so hard so much.
@@Raging103 so this popped up in notifications - so-no, they were praising cats, but were afraid of running out of water from the river Nile; so now they are not afraid of going out of water - no they probably are… but now the city is moved wouldn’t it demolish the density of the previous capitol that is still will be settled there? but being just less pointed out in the denying, but be not completely brought out … so: not bringing it out completely would be more likely… or pushing the thought to combine of the potentiality it could potentially overflow from the sea, when ocean water would be more moved by the fragility - which probably not - the hills and mountains take millions of years to flatter so it needs that to happen to let the water overflow the city that is old capitol or like more likely to overflow but that’s just a concept of a thought that is a concern
It is actually very pedestrian friendly in the way the neighbourhoods are designed and the way the Central Park (called the Green River) cuts the city in two halves with pedestrian friendly neighbourhoods branching out of it like “valleys”. The neighbourhoods in the city are called “wady” which which is the Arabic word for valley. The highways around the city are necessitated because the new capital is in the centre between Egypt’s most populous city Cairo and the Suez Canal Zone with all its manufacturing centres, so these routes are necessary for logistics and movement of trade goods.
Well, I hope people actually decide to migrate in once it’s fully built. A city without people can never be a city - various mega projects around the world have learned the hard way that country populations may not always embrace new developments Edit: yeah, I’ll be honest, reviewing this video again and this project is just a dictator throwing money around for the sake of it. There’s no way the average Egyptian citizen will be able to live here, this is just an excuse to siphon away funds needed to maintain infrastructure in places where people already live. It’s a city for the rich and powerful so they can ignore problems elsewhere in their country. I’m a bit ashamed it’s received so much attention.
I’m Egyptian too. Also we both have the same last name. We’ll sort of there was a problem when my parents moved so my dad had to change his last name and well you get the idea
@@ismailhabib97 It’s hard to explain. When my dad moved to America they got his fourth last name instead of his last name so my dad took a few years to change it back to his real last name. But he already had me and my sister so he didn’t change our last name until years later
This city is extremely centralized. While centralization is great to achieve top-performance and synergies in a very small area, it largely excludes the rest of the city from participating. The plan also pretty much dictates housing districts per income or occupation. This brings the danger of supporting inequality of income, opportunities and district development over the coming decades. The most "important" or promising districts will receive the most attention in city development while other districts will not receive the necessary funding and decline. The horrific dependency on traffic to reach centralized hot-spots will increase this disparity even further and is discussed as its own problem in other comments already. I wish them the best of luck with their new cities, they are going to need it!
The more compact government administration is the only thing they solved it would appear. The central park is nice, but will there be smaller neighborhood parks? I agree with many here who shake their head at the widely separated work, live, and play functions. If they could walk to some of these, it would be better. Public transportation yes, but not as a substitute for building things together rather than apart. This reminds me of zoning, where you cannot possibly live over a store because it must be in a zone all by itself. I see a reference to Washington, DC with the central axis of buildings.
Yeah I kept thinking this city was clearly built by a dictatorship. Centralized government buildings outside the core of the city screams that they don’t care about people’s voices. The elites will just stay together
The project is grandiose, and standards of living is well below poverty in the USA. Egypt needed to develop its own population, which can bring tourists to see the best monuments on earth. Clean streets, clean people would be my first priority if I was running Egypt.
@@southcolumbia402 The planners of this would probably shrug and wonder why people would balk at driving for groceries to park on a massive parking lot, drive to a massive one level shopping mall surrounded by miles of parking lots, drive to a massive central park to park on a massive parking lot to enjoy the park, drive miles to a massive government complex to park on a massive parking lot, and so on. Nothing wrong with spending half of a day in a car on massive ten lane freeways stopped in traffic.
finally egypt is upgrading itself it was very hard for them to modernise themselves due to ancient cities. its an old country im glad they are still growing stronger.
Although Sisi (President of Egypt) is a dictator, his mentality is literally different from all of his predecessors. He seeks to develop every inch of Egypt. I am Egyptian and it seems that this man will make me love the dictatorship.
@@fakeaccount6769 please stop listening to propaganda. I don't see any signs of dictatorship in Egypt. If you want to know what dictatorship means look at China or Soviet Russia or even North Korea, It's incomparable.
The video didn’t mention the 60 km long smart monorail line in the new capital that will open for commuters in late 2022 connecting the new capital to Cairo’s metro lines. There is also an electric LRT train in the new capital which will connect its neighbourhoods to the newer cities around it mentioned in the video (it will connect all of the industrial hubs east of Cairo, west of the Suez Canal economic zone and going through the New Capital). That LRT line is done and currently going through trials in order to open in early 2022. There is also Egypt’s first high speed rail line which starts in the Red Sea port of Ain Sokhna going through the New Capital, then Cairo then 6th of October all the way to Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea. The high speed rail work began mid 2021 and should be finished in 2023. All of the above modes of transport connect in a single node in the New Capital’s central transportation station which will be in the centre of the city, close to the downtown and will also be the main hub for the green buses in the city allowing easy transfer between lines. This city also has Egypt’s first bike friendly road network so people could cycle in the streets to anywhere they want to go! Besides that every residential neighbourhood in the city has a little “green valley or wadi” which are small mixed use green areas/parks which are connected to the Green River Central Park (which bisects the city in two), meaning you can go anywhere in the city by walking on the trails in this network of parks and pedestrian areas... Regarding some of the misinformed comments I saw here, sometimes I think westerners just don’t want to see developing countries like rise economically even though some of these developing “third world” countries were the birthplace of human civilizations like China, Egypt, India etc...
as the developed nations are moving away from the automobile, the third world seems to embrace it. Third world countries love to copy the worst parts of auto-oriented American urban planning which even America is moving away from in order to densify its cities. It seems like the third world is always behind the trend.....
@@user-or1rm1ol3q All countries that try to make a new capital from scratch struggle to infuse the city with organic charecter and life. On top of this the cities are always reliant on cars. Why dont you Egyptians take pride in the historical streetscape of Cairo, make it better and emulate it for your new capital instead of copying the worst of outdated 1960s american suburban planning.
@@MattPerdeck yes, the first metro line is made of light rail transit electric trains which were installed in October and are undergoing testing in order to open early 2022. There are I believe 11 stations in the new capital in that line which also branches out into near cities east of Cairo. The second line connects with the LRT line in the new capital main transportation station, but it is a monorail line which is stated to open late 2022, the piers for the monorail and its controlling systems are already installed with some of the monorail cars being installed by bombardier last month for testing.
It would be interesting to see how they solve their water issues or address them with this new city in the middle of the desert and whether they learn from the mistakes of North American infrastructure and neighborhoods. Would also be interesting to see how they fund the building of this new city.
uhmm im sure we all know how that will be resolved here. The Nile water will be redirected to the new HQ and yeah the peasants suffering from Cairo's water crisis maybe addressed later down the line.
@victor bruun love someone who claims to know excatly how to fix the world but cant form a proper sentence. where are we going to get all the radioactive materials and where is all the waste going to go?
Solar energy and Desalination plants. Why use fresh water when you have the energy in abundance to use sea water. Solar power to make Hydrogen+oxigen to transport. Hydrogen and Oxygen burning to drive turbines for electrical energy while having fresh water as waste product.
@@swankshire6939 modern nuclear power plants are efficient enough so how we get the material is a non-issue and can actually reuse nuclear waste for more fuel. Nuclear has advanced a lot in the past decades and the old dogma against it is almost all outdated now
Hey there Neo, your video is amazingly well done and it is clear you put an immense amount of effort into it. As an Egyptian myself whose school is in the heart of new capital I can tell you the progress is astonishing. In such little time they have done so much. For example, the iconic tower now is so high that I can see it from my home in El Sherouk city! And the city's gates are now complete. I'm excited for this new Egypt.
It's a new egypt build on the interest of a few leaving behind the poor and impoverished to rot in Cairo. You know nothing please watch the video I gave you.
@@Bamm1894 Well, your comment expresses lack of basic understanding of how Egypt's economy works, A large portion comes from tourism and the new capital completes the ancient rich history with the modern capability of today. Simply, look at the Emirates. A country whose people lived in tents just a few years ago now stands as a global destination for tourism changing their whole economy to the best. They played their cards right and Egypt is on that path. You ask how will that tower help the economy, just look at Khalifa tower for example, that brings MILLIONS every year alone for the Emirates. Think before you comment.
@@goldendragon4891 The way a tourism economy works, no matter where you go, is simple. Some people have it really good, everyone else gets fucked. In Dubai for instance they even have slavery that everyone pretends isn't slavery. Egypt, which can't even muster up the intelligence to create f'ing traffic laws is undoubtedly the same. All this project does is provide a shiny thing that makes the lucky few feel good about themselves while they grind their heels into the poor.
This has Brasilia's monumental axis and USA's suburbs written all over it. Both huge mistakes from the last century. I don't think this can go well, but surely hoping for the best.
It really looks like it will be beautiful. Seeing the lotus, ankh and vulture wings included in giant form in the layout is amazing and the giant Obelisk, quite nice.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@dollswithhistory3643 Oh no, now you're copying and pasting that too? Do you even know if that's true? The OP gave zero evidence, and most agree that it's completely nonsensical.
This was very impressive! It gave me a completely new perspective on Egypt! It will be fascinating to see how this new city develops in the future. I'd never heard of it before which also shows how much Europe or Eurpoean media still underestimate the big economies on the African continent.
underestimate or not give a shit about because it isn't even happening on the same continent, hence it's pointless to talk about..the world would be WAY better off without international "news"..
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
They're going to run into the SAME congestion/traffic problems because the new capital is designed like Houston, Texas. There is no walkability. I see neighborhoods spread out as far as the eye can see. I see highways cutting the "central park" off from the surrounding areas. It's going to be a very car-centric city unless they also invest HEAVILY in public transit (buses, trams, metro etc.). I can't help but feel that this money could have been better spent to uplift the living standards of millions of egyptians.
Well he failed to mention the monorail and various transportation options that will be in the new capital moreover misr mosque is the bigger than aftah el aleem mosque
You do realise this is IN the dessert? People cant walk around in the heat and whats wrong with cars, if the infrastructure has a built in tolerance for the expected growth.
@@ivzh5025 why would walking around the dessert be an issue. you DO realize that Egypt existed just fine prior to the car, right? it’s obvious that at least SOME architectural solutions to the heat have been beat. Car infrastructure is only going to cause more people to drive and make this new capital city just as congested and polluted as the last
As an architect and urban planner, planned cities never live up to its plans or ambitions but it is good to keep dreaming. One day we will figure out how to make sure everyone has a safe city, clean air etc.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
As an Egyptian I did study a lot about that but I feel happy to actually learn more about it and to see what other Non-Egyptians think about it!Proud to talk about my country!
Specialists in 22 arab countries according to Euronews said that Egypt was the country were there is the least amount of equality between men and women. My country is ranked 26th out of 189 countries in parity women/men against 116th for Egypt. I'm not saying my country's the greatest, even tho it is, but Egypt really has progress to do on this point.
@@user-or1rm1ol3q this ain't true, and the only reason for which it could potentially be true is because women in those kind of countries are afraid to be molested by local authorities if they try to defend themselves
I like this, good luck Egypt. I hope you guys prosper. I'm excited to visit the country one day, and by the looks of how these things are going. The pyramids and historical sites won't be the only places to visit in Egypt.
As a person who has family in Ethiopia, I'm happy that Egypt is being proactive to ease the tensions when it comes to the Nile. The East African region can't afford conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia, Let's all move forward to a better and more prosperous future! 😁
I went there about 3 months ago honestly I was impressed about the work they have done in such a short time it looked like how Dubai was 5 years ago when it was being built I was super impressed that I went and bought an apartment there in a compound for like 150k usd
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
I hope it works out Egypt 🇪🇬! Your plans look freaking amazing! I truly hope it works out the Egyptian folks! The plans are fascinating. I truly believe Egypt 🇪🇬 can lead the the entirety of Africa with economic innovation.
Ah yes, the hallmark of any contemporary urban planning handbook: Segregated, single zone developments with meandering streets that don't connect with the outside urban fabric.
Probably the one main thing i don't see people talking about in this comment section! Like you stated, the new city coud lack a mixture of the different functions that a city offers. if e.g. living, business, sports and/or recreational activities are not mixed together, it will lose out on one huge quality: (social) cohesion. If there's no social cohesion and the streets will not be used at certain times during the day, the city will feel 'empty' and maybe even a bit unsafe at times. I think this is something that you'd like to avoid.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
??? I assume you don't speak Arabic since you haven't been keeping up with what's actually being done, this city will be the meeting point of the entire country and you could travel from alexandria to Aswan in half an hour or so, this is a project that people have really been looking forward to, with 100 billion dollars being spent on this new entire city which will be operated 80% by green energy and electricity, people really can't get this city off their minds here. It's absolutely wildin
WOW!!!!! I'm really excited about all of this. It's simply astonishing! I wish the egyptian nation the best of luck and prosperity! All love and support from a fellow lebanese
It's just a giant vanity project for the ruling class of Egypt to show off and to insulate themselves from everyone else. The dictator and his friends enjoy such decadence whilst the average Egyptian barely gets by, living in makeshift huts in the slums. It's an absolute kick in the teeth to the Egyptian people. The King of France left Paris for Versailles, because out there, he could insulate himself from the peasantry, and that ended in some head chopping
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
من وجهه نظري الاسباب الرئيسيه للازدحام والتكدس السكاني والتي لا توجد فقط بالقاهره بل بتقريبا اغلب المدن المصريه هي عدم الاهتمام بالقري من حيث الخدمات وفرص العمل والمزارعين اللي بالغالب جزء منهم بيحتاج انه يسافر اقرب مدينه بشكل متواصل لقضاء احتياجه سواء بمصالح حكوميه او شراء متطلبات او للرغبه بالحصول علي حياه افضل او لفرص عمل افضل وبعد فتره من الوقت المدن اصبحت تعاني نفس القريه سواء من عدم توافر فرص عمل كافيه او لازدحامها وعندها يقرر الانتقال الي العاصمه وهكذا ، يجب الاهتمام بالمزارعين بالقريه وبالتالي توفير فرص عمل وعدم حاجتهم للانتقال بل سوف يحدث العكس لبحث الناس عن الهدوء لان بالاصل مصر دوله زراعيه .
Thanks for the video, it was interesting to see these projects in greater detail than short articles ever could. One small thing that I was hoping the video would touch on but didn't was how Chinese interests are very much in competition with western influence in Egypt. Funders, backers and stakeholders are important to review in any large infrastructure project.
I really wish countries that were really willing to spend this much money on from scratch cities would look back to their past for influences on their modern design. This is some of the best ive seen along with india's new capital. I just dont want another dubai, qatar or whatever glass skycraper city. Something unique would be amazing. recreate a modern version of the ancient egyptian cities
That's the plan, Egypt is using some really unique architecture in all its new cities (20 planned), you also have to remember that countries like Qatar and the UAE had nothing to draw from, so modern glass and steel is as much 'character' as you're gonna get.
The problem is it costs more money, even this project in Egypt will put massive strain on their balance sheet whilst most of the population will not benefit much.
@@jewellui The new admin capital (NAC), as all new Egyptian cities, is entirely funded from property sales, it doesn't affect the country's 'balance sheet' in any way. Each new Egyptian city is an independent company with its own balance sheet. The NAC itself will be publicly offered in the Egyptian exchange next year, with a $100B market cap.
@@MRawash what are you talking about? Property sales come after the property has been at least partly completed not before. Yes the NAC “will be listed”, the project is already taking place, more money will come later. Meanwhile the government has borrowed billions to make this happen.
@@jewellui The "government" hasn't borrowed a single cent to put into these cities. And the first phase of the NAC is already mostly sold out and being paid for by the private sector, they're the ones doing most of the development and selling to individuals, the government itself is only providing the infrastructure. Not sure where you're getting your information/confidence.
I hope the new city is pedestrian friendly. New cities have the chance to move away from relying heavily on cars hence reducing traffic, noise and pollution. Just hope they grab that chance. I’ve visited Dubai on many occasions and you can’t get from one neighbourhood to another without hitting a motorway. It would be great to see more thought, innovation and flair put into designing this new city.
Like roadway is used to be where foot traffic happened
We didn't lose the need for that much space to walk
Sadly it looks like its going to be car dependent.
With the amount of highways.
And how spread out the services are.
@@penguinpingu3807 There are smart mass transportation, and the large areas will be gardens and a green outlet to help cool the atmosphere in the summer. The city is expected to accommodate nearly ten million citizens. There must be a place in the design for the future. And everything is planned, even if they want to make a trolleybus or a frequency bus, its place will be ready
@@abomoaaz7245 I think a metro would be more feasible as for a city expecting to accommodate 10 million people. As a metro is able to move people in a larger capacity. And it won't disturb or even get stuck on traffic. But buses or tollybuses are better than nothing I suppose. I hope Egypt will have a bright future. (And I actually meant it.)
to be fair you can't just be walking in dubai lmao
You should have added that the new city is going to be between to Suez canal and Cairo. Also, the new capital city will be linked with the metro, monorail, and a High-speed railway.
a city has to have a certain density to generate ridership in public transport at a reasonable price!
@@gitgut4977 that’s bs because all of these transportation modes are not to “create ridership” to the new capital but to actually facilitate the movement of people between the populous cities in the Nile valley and the Suez Canal Special economic zone with all its surrounding manufacturing cities so that it facilitates creating jobs in the process and lift millions out of poverty. So we are following the Chinese model, in the future this new capital is bound to be fully populated because of its strategic location in a huge economic corridor connecting the Mediterranean and the red seas.
Cairo NEEDS more subways. It's so packed.
This guy said it all and it didn't even take the minimal amount of time to get flagged for being paiid. You're a Saint
I am scratching my head...it will place the nation in danger from the sky...like telling your enemies...bom here if you are angry with me.
Loved seeing the storytelling on this one. Making it a 15 minute long story with only voice over and maps must have been hard. Very informative, enjoyed it alot.
Sarcasm ?
@@clincpb8903 probably.. I enjoyed it though
@@clincpb8903 Nope
😂😂😂 please shut up
@@v12-s65 it’s just feedback…
Spent 4 days in Cairo in November 2018. Uninhabited apartment block buildings everywhere, most without glass in the windows. It was explained to me that purchasers/lessees were expected to buy the glass and appliances, etc. themselves. As far as I could see, then, many buildings had barely 50% occupancy. I don't, therefore, see the whole "housing shortage" issue. It looks like corrupt builders have been able to secure permissions with no oversight or reference to any kind of zoning or other planning regs. and have built willy-nilly all over the city. The massive grinding poverty in which the vast majority of the population lives makes such spaces unattainable and the shoddy construction means the middle classes don't want them. So much easier for elites to head out to the desert, build their own utopia, and let Cairo go to the starving dogs, cats, donkeys, people, and oblivious tourists. Nothing on the images you provide shows where the slaves on whose backs most of this will run are to live. Also, who is paying for all this? Has Egypt become progressive and gone for a tax the rich self-financing scheme or are the poor and middles classes shouldering a deeply unfair tax burden while the corrupt government goes heavily in debt to "whom"???? Reminds me of Greece just after joining the EU/euro. The generals and their cronies made out like bandits on all the loans and now ordinary Greeks have been suffering for 12 years and will keep on suffering for another decade at least. The average citizen of Cairo or rural Egypt will never see inside any of those facilities or benefit in the least from "the tallest building in Africa".
I totally agree. There are only two ways something like this works: incredible wealth, unity, and cooperation- or tyrannical slave labour. I guess Egypt really is resurrecting old traditions…
Here is the thing : the government published the master plan on the desert, land have zero value, then pledges to build the infrastructure and the land become worthy of investment..so then government sells huge plots to private real estate developers and then use the money to build the promised infrastructure and low cost housing mainly to house poor people who live in slums on long term subsidized cheap loans.
@@MoReal2 Right but Egypt does not have any serious tourism except brief visits to the pyramids and the local population only makes like $130 a week. What are these real-estate companies going to do to make profit? Not to mention that they are trying to out do Dubai with less slave labour, no serious oil money or control over the global oil market, and while actively in a water shortage (soon war).
@@MoReal2 Why not just invest the billions of dollars into infrastructure and poverty in their current capital, that has access to the pyramids? Just seems like a dick measuring contest for oligarchs.
@@Peglegkickboxer not sure where you are getting your info from, but Egypt is a popular tourist destination for British, Germans, Italians and Russians. Cairo was already overcrowded with many slums in the old town occupying central cairo. This project is a master move by the gov as they get to stimulate the economy with private money, while moving poor people from slums into affordable low cost hosing for free while solving congestion problems too.
Egypt is not trying to out do dubai...Dubai real estate is intended for luxury buyers while Egypts real estate market is driven by internal demand..there are 5 to 6 million Egyptian expatriates in the gulf countries alone and they will def buy into this project..
Plus, Egypt have a diverse economy unlike the gulf countries which relies solely on revenues from oil and gas..
I hope Egypt makes sure, public transportation is a thing and doesn’t ignore it, traffic *cannot* be solved by building more streets. Even if some people thinks otherwise
There's fast electric train and also electric public busses
@Ondrej Vana this sounds about right
lol tell that to sisi i have been saying that for a while
building more streets actually creates more traffic
@@nathan3396 exactly
Love seeing these mega/legacy projects. Years later you see how these projects, initiatives have come together and whether they stayed true to original plans or not and whether they were sort on budget/encountered financial turmoil. Loved this video.
It will turn to a ghost city.
It feels like it will be a city without any soul. Planned out cities like this probably sound nice on paper and look impressive in the first moment but don't at all fit to egypt or its population. I am doubtful that this will be nice.
@@retf8977 it is already filled with people you wanna see?
@@felixgluck2874 it is already filled with people by the way
Don't worry this city will be filled with people like any other project especially since new laws are preventing the expansion of the new residential building in cities to make sure that these new cities have residents. For the funding and whether or not the project will be completed. I assure you it will be completed regardless of any problem it may face (other than the fall of the current regime) because it is controlled by the military and we are bleeded dry so that the government gets the money it needs to complete these projects.
My only question is how is this gonna solve the water shortage? Making a city with an artificial river in the desert certainly won’t help🤔
There is a very interesting plan in place that would put nuclear powerplants and desalinization plants in the South of Israel underground and Israel would share the energy and water with Jordan Saudi Arabia and Egypt. But most Egyptians are not in favor of this plan because they hate Israel. The countries that agree to the plan would gain huge strategic advantages.
@@bhalps Huge strategic advantages like being totally dependent on your greatest enemy.
Sounds good.
@@kaisersaltyvonsaltenburg3298 Egypt and Israel have no competing geopoltiical interests. The only reason they've been at odds is Egypt's sympathy for the Palestinians, which with Pan-Arabism and Pan-Islamism increasingly disfavoured by the Egyptian establishment, is less of a factor now. Egypt and Israel are today de-facto allies, supporting each other's plans for economic development and cooperating to resist Turkish attempts to dominate the eastern Mediterranean.
Of course, if Egypt were to become an actual democracy at some point, and the will of the Egyptian people started to factor into Egypt's foreign policy, this could change very rapidly.
@@MDFification1 Turkey 🇹🇷 should be the role model not Israel for Egypt
They can do what they do in the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and create desalination plants.
To summarize :
1. They have too much traffic but instead of developing public transportation they build more roads and a new city centre.
2. They have a systemic water shortage and will solve it by building a city in the desert.
Great plans, good luck Egypt!
I think since you are illiterate, you don't need to know more.
Regarding the first point
They aren't solving traffic problems with developing more roads and the new capital will have accessible public transportation
In cairo we are expanding metro lines,monroals and building a new railway same with the capital,we don't have much cars problem is that more than 22 million of us live in cairo,density is extreme .
Regarding 2nd point I agree with it,I have no clue how we are gonna irrigate it
@@ahmedelnokrashi8324 Egypt with 100M inhabitants cannot rely anymore only on the Nile river even without the Ethiopian dam, the only solution is water desalination and a more severe birth control. 100M in the desert is insane
@@HTProducer I am aware of that that is why I said I have no idea how he is gonna supply a man made river a park 6× central park plus different plantings and neighbourhood parks
@@HTProducer EGYPT IS NOT A DESERT🙄 🏜️😡
Seems like they are building this new city to be very car dependent. If that is the case it might even worsen the traffic situation in old Cairo as well.
Yea. I've critiqued and critiqued but they don't understand. Dubai has huge highways and huge roads but faces congestion I'm occasionally too because of how car dependant the city is.
Yeah everything seems to be so disconnected
seems pretty counterproductive in that aspect
Not a single mention of trains or metro's so yeah, its going to be completely depended on road traffic.
It's going to be a US asphalt dystopian hellhole
They're just doing another 1950s American style shitty car dependent development. I'm surprised they never learn.
I'm glad that they're building the new cities in the desert. I remember when my family and I stayed in Egypt and visited Alexandria, an Austrian architect told my dad he was sick and tired of having to call the Ministry of Antiquities every time they dug a hole for construction because they keep finding historical artifacts that needed to be cleared! 😂😂😂 We saw Ptolemaic coins they found. Very cool! Only in Egypt!
We have saying in egypt. That’s goes in Africa they dig and find gold, in Arabia they dig and find oil, in egypt we dig and find history (p.s ik Egypt is in Africa lol)
@@AlexanderMemeing an unfortunate find in a place to build your house haha
I am still mustering the will to get a shovel and check a strange pile of ancient rooftiles in my fields
99% chance I'll lose half a day digging for more broken tiles, but anyways
@@Masregypt6203 - EGYPT is NOT in AFRICA but in Arabia. Egypt is a Member of the ARAB REGION.
@@alonsobrazzel3011 it isn't in africa but in middle east
I was literally wondering when this video would come out just a few hours ago and then boom, here it is! Loved it, turned out great!!!
Are going there? Probably again
You are the best youtuber who ever came to Egypt! We love you man!
@@OmarKhaled-uj6cc thanks omar!
Love you Doug from Alexandria
And youtube showed it to you. Google fucking owns us.
As an Egyptian it really hurts to see that Cairo will no longer be Egypt’s capital
Yeah i get it they made it to stop the traffic madness in Cairo but Cairo is VERY old that it’s actually older than some countries and it contains a lot of history every cm if you really want to end the “traffic madness “ then renovate the other cities in Egypt if u looked at us you will find the most of the Egyptians only live Alexandria and Cairo ( i said most ) so why not put some attention to the other cities and put people to work there instead of them traveling here to find a job
على فكرة اسكندرية كانت عاصمة مصر لفترة طويلة جدا لحد ما اتعملت القاهرة وبقت العاصمة هو ده حال الدنيا . عموما القاهرة بما فيها تاريخ وحضارة هتتحول لمدينة سياحية من الطراز الاول لما تتنقل العاصمة والقاهرة تنفض الغبار اللي عليها هتبقا احسن واشهر بكتير من دلوقتي
Dont worry its a tradition to change capital every 500 years
Your right, this new city is just here for the rich evil elite and dictator
have you ever considered using the dot Symbol on your keyboard? Looks like this: .
Will Cairo function like Kyoto of Japan (old heritage city, former capital) when the new one gets built and runs?
I love these sorts of modern takes of ancient architecture, the buildings look pharaonic and modern at the same time, it is amazing.
It looks Arabic
@@wrux and like ancient Egypt at the same time so it's a mixture of what the Egyptians are know for !
@@wrux no it’s not
Most buildings designs are based on pharaonic Egyptian symbols some of them is already built and finished
It’s a failure.
@@newagain9964 no elaboration or anything just talking shite for the sake of it
After reading a lot comments talking about public transportation, I can tell you as an architect involved with the construction of several parts of the new capital, I've come in contact with a lot of ambitious public transportation projects being built already. To name a few; Transportation Hub, Mono Rail, LRT, Electric Bus network, and the High Speed train. I'm not an expert on this manner, but I can tell you that the planners did put a lot of work in solving these problems before they occur.
The Mono rail for example will link horizontally from East (Red Sea city called Ein Sokna) to West of Cairo (Industrial district of 6th October city) thus reducing a trip that usually takes more than two hours to less than an hour.
The LRT will link diagonally the different urban cities around Cairo.
I believe that the creator can make a whole video talking about the new transportation infrastructure being built.
@فرحن جما تركت كل اللي قاله و ركزت على اسمه🤦🏻♂️
@فرحن جما that’s not the n word though
like any city lool
@@tigress63 we don't know for sure if self driving cars will take over, either way it will be a long time for a country like egypt to implement this even when its established in the west.
also please don't speak on behave of the Egyptian people if you're not egyptian, the culture and the education level here is very different from the west and you probably don't understand what egyptians want.
Regardless of transportation plans etc., that layout of super wide avenues will deter the pedestrians and likely cycles - the two most sustainable means of transportation
Two of my concerns:
1) Water? How will it get it?
2) Public Transport? Considering the amount of congestion that initiated this thing in the whole place, what public transport systems will be implemented?
edit:
I've read all of your comments.
From what I've gathered:
- Water should not be as big of an issue human consumption wise, as supposedly it is only an issue in the Agriculture sector.
- As for Public Transport, I can see that there are plans to expand the metro and bus systems (very cool), a High-speed railway to link the major cities (also very cool), and build an LRT and monorail system in New Cairo. Implementing monorail would be rather challenging as not many transport systems use it, so sticking to just LRT would probably be a safer choice, but better than nothing I suppose.
- There are arguments on the grounds that Egypt's military is sucking Egyptian coffers dry. Due to my political beliefs, I do agree to some extent with this statement, but ultimately it is the choice of the Egyptian and only the Egyptian people to decide what they want in a Government, and if they demand a strong military, then so be it.
TL;DR Egypt is making good strides towards their vision of the Cairo Metro (and surrounding cities), but things can most certainly be made even better.
Water was never a problem and never will be a problem for Egyptians. It is a problem for crops, for agriculture. Egyptians have plenty of drinking water and compared to Gulf countries Egyptians seldom drink mineral water and all drink tap water and filter tap water. Water bill is extremely cheap in Egypt and water outage is rare. Drinking water is abundant in Egypt. Problem comes when it has to do with agriculture. In that vein, Egypt needs a lot more water than it has now to feed all its agricultural lands. This means Egypt either has to modernize and make their farms more efficient or increase water share from elsewhere. But in the context of an urban city with 0 crops, who cares?
Public transport plans are already in development whether the monorail or the LRT, but either way Egyptians are not strangers to long distances in Cairo. This city is not the first neighbourhood to be built miles away from central Cairo, this trend has been going on for decades. Cities like Madinity, Shorouk, New Cairo, October, Sheikh Zayed, are all plenty of distance away from central Cairo, and are self-sufficient and travel is by car. Since this is an important capital though, Egypt plans to introduce actual transport systems like LRT and Monorail, which will not only help get to the capital but help all those suburbs I mentioned earlier to be better reached. This trend is probably even older than you think as cities like Nasr city are the older generation of these outskirt plans but now it is fully integrated into Cairo.
Lol do you think any of the government officials that thought this stuff up actually care about public transport? They just get chauffered around in their Limos and have police make space in traffic jams. The plebians can be stuck in traffic jams who cares lol got my Octagon (get it, it's more than PENTAgon)
@@ChaplainDMK yes government officials in Egypt care about public transport they already built a Monorail line & an LRT Train to transport people to & from The New Administrative Capital , additionally a new train is being built right now and will be fully finished in 2024/2025
@@MohamedYasser-xq8ks Dude, that's not public transport. Public transport is a system that needs to connect people to different suburbs, their work, places of recreation and leisure, commerical districts etc.. A monorail to and from the administrative capital is nothing. You need rapid transirt - suburban railroads, metro, and tram networks that connect New Cairo to all other districts and central Cairo.
The Cairo public transport system is a joke for 20 million people. It's comparable to Prague, a city 5% the size of Cairo proper. Forget about places like Istanbul, Paris, London, Berlin etc. that have dozens of lines and hundreds of kilometers of metro and suburban rail, tram and bus services connecting every part of the city with intervals of 3-10 minutes 24/7.
Instead of the government investing in creating this and also solving the traffic issues in central Cairo, they decide to run away to a vanity project out in the desert with enormous government buildings, palaces, and parks for the ultra wealth and powerful, while leaving the poor and working class to deal with the traffic and pollution of "Old" Cairo.
@@ChaplainDMK The Monorail will have 6 stations inside the city to transport people to and from places INSIDE the new Administrative Capital , The LRT Train will have 3 or 4 stations working inside the city, sure they could do more but you're acting as if they can't build a metro line or do further expansions in the future for public transportation, they're already building a huge bus stations that will deliver people from and to the New Capital and of course serve people needs within the city itself
Wish all the best to our ancient brothers, much love from Greece! 🇬🇷❤️🇪🇬
Thanks dude it's really heartwarming to see such a nice comment from someone at Greece Greece us Egyptians may god bring peace and blessings to your land my friend
@@1Light14 that is one good dad joke you pulled right there my friend
Thanks bro, Greeks, and Egyptians are like honey and sugar, they're both sweet! ❤❤❤
@@gumballsbrotheriforgothisn5263 Gumball's brother is "Darwin"
There is a huge difference between a master and a brother, Greeks came here to learn and we gave you knowledge and that's it we are not brothers.
I’ve been reading about the new administrative capital of Egypt for some time now. Your video is excellent, one of the best I’ve seen yet and it gives me an even greater reason to visit Egypt in the next decade. Thank you!
Greetings from egypt. 2026 would be when everything comes together regarding mega projects in egypt. It would be a great time to see how the old meets the new.
That's if Egypt lasts. country doesn't seem long for this world.
@@JamesJJSMilton
Lol, it lasted for 5300 years through wars, occupations, famines, natural disasters, civil wars. It will last till the day the world ends. Cause Egypt is not based on, ethnicity, race, religion, tibe, dynasty, language, abundance of resources. It's based on a resilient idea and ideas don't die.
I was in Egypt in October and let me tell ya, they are building at a pace i never thought possible. New vs Old Cairo are going to be night and day.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@acutee2 bruh chill out first
2nd he took all of those pictures from the internet and it was posted only by Egyptian government so you won't find any other website post about it
3rd it isn't sponsored by the Egyptian government and if egypt would like to share such a thing they would just share it without taking to a content creator like neo
4th the new administration capital has been in progress for a couple of year so if they wanted to share something they would have shared it years ago so your comment is just sitting on the content creator and the country
@@acutee2
Stop! dummy
@@acutee2 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Enough illustrated
@@acutee2 calling well established youtubers paid actors when they don't fit you narrative won't convince westerners, even egyptians won't fall for that .
نرجو لمصر الشقيقة كل الخير و النمو و عسى ان يكون حالكم افضل مع مرور الزمن فأنتم تستحقون كل خير سادتي
تحية لإخواننا المصريين الأعزاء من العراق
Hey bro...
I have only two simple questions...
1. From where will the new capital get the water in future coz Egypt is going through a water crisis....
2. How will they complete this Ultra Mega project coz the financial condition of Egypt is not good on international level....
From my POV instead of making a new city by copying Dubai, Paris and Random US city... They should have to focus on how to develop the real Ciaro....
These are just my points...
Water will become a big problem due to climate change and the Ethiopian dam. The Nile will contain less water in the future.
However, the government will probably just prioritize water flow to this new city as government members will live there. Meanwhile, Cairo and other cities will suffer the consequences.
I don't even want to imagine the conditions in the slums of the old cities in the upcoming decades.
New Cairo city will become the hub for Egyptian elites such as military members and government officials. At the same time they will try to invite companies from all over the world just like Dubai did. The city will become an isolated protected fortress for the rich and powerful.
should Ethiopia canceling the dam
1. The water problem in egypt and every middle east country tbh is complicated, 80% l of nile water that reaches egypt is used for agriculture, so supplying water to a city is no issue the issue is how to feed the growing population with scars water supply.
2. The government sold most the land to real estate companies foreign and egyption on the promise that they build the utility ( roads , electricity, water ) , so most if not all of the residential area for high mid class and the rich only
They are developing Giza and Cairo even relocating a whole communities who lives in what you call a slums into new neighborhoods that built from scratch .
@@wavyy this is not new cairo dummy
Now now... don't let real problems get in the way of some dictator's vanity project.
If planned cities are extremely reliant on cars, they are already half a failure. With a strong emphasis on public transport, you can plan a city compactly and efficiently. This is far too extensive, and a waste of a large amount of resources. You separate districts from one another through the multi-lane roads and reduce the life quality of the inhabitant unnecessarily.
the video ignored the transportation not the Egyptian government because there's 100 km light electric railway will connect the cairo subway lines to new capital from the north of the capital to its heart to the Olympic complex and will open in three months from now and there's 60 km monorail line begin from Cairo subway lines passing through new cairo and will be parallel to the green River and will connect with the electric train inthe heart of the capital and that will open next year and there's third transport project under construction which is high speed railway network consent of three lines first line under construction will connect the red sea to the Mediterranean sea passing through the new capital intersect with the light electric train in the Olympic complex and will pass through cairo giza alexandria and marsa matroh in the Mediterranean 660 km and there's another two high speed railway lines under negotiation one of them will be parallel to the nile
@@KemetEG I just Read your comment. And literally all the things you mentioned are things coming. Basic public transportation should already be the already there in cities where regular egyptians live. And if you want to ask. I have been to Cairo and public transport is very poor for An MEGACITY.
@@skrettsnerk508 You are wrong, an excessive 'Adam Something' enjoyer! But cars have annoyed me since I lived for the first time in a city 5 years ago. And we keep growing. Hopefully to a serious interest group soon.
@@hageneesje yes but this projects under construction not plans .. yes cairo has bad public transportation Only three subway lines to city host twenty millions but the government is building another two subway lines and third one under planning but you know subway projects need times compared with trains on the surface or even monorail and there's no space in Cairo so subway lines are the only solution but it need times
@@KemetEG I really hope that the projects Will succeed. Like not only for the new glamorous cities but also for the cities that already there. And that should come 1st
All the most interesting questions are not asked, much less answered: where will power and water come from? What kind of urban transport is the city being built for? What logistical hurdles does building and living in the desert present, and how will they be dealt with? What do futurists and urban planners think about this? Where else in.the world have other such cities and government mega-projects succeeded, and where have they failed? What lessons have been learned? What does this project say, good and bad, about Egypt as a society?
power is easy to solve given its a desert, wind and solar power are fairly easy to get. water is the harder part and will be a very interesting problem to solve
This has "bad idea" written all over it, but I'm not in charge of a country. I'm just a man, calling a spade a spade.
Egypt has a 30MW surplus of power that it exports, 20% from renewables, the rest from natural gas. Transport is electric bus, LTR, monorail, and highspeed electric rail. Egypt doesn't have a choice but to build in the desert, whatever hurdles there are they are nothing to compared to what awaits if they don't move out of the Nile valley, fast.
@@MRawash
How does it have a surplus form natural gas when it purchase natural gas from near by countries?
@@ofroaddude5859 Surplus of electricity production*. It's also a net exporter of natural gas, but that's a separate thing. The natural gas it imports (e.g. from Israel and Cyprus) is for liquidation and reexport, not local consumption.
As large as these new cities are, it should eleviate space so they can rebuilt large sections of Old Cairo to be more transit and buissness friendly while retaining some of the vital old neigboorhoods and individual buildings for tourist and cultural sake. Connecting all the cities by mass transit and make Cairo a world class city would be a must for that. it would be a shame if they tried to seperate the city to keep the common man out of these modern portions! I wished you displayed these aspects of the new city!
we allready do this research bro
Yeah im pretty sure we are trying that already
@@ahmedawad4508 Well, the video didn't cover any of these did they?
They're building this new city very traffic unfriendly, so I doubt that they're gonna play those cards well
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 the video is specifically covering only the new administrative capital not cairo
I see this city´s future being like one of those chinese abandoned mega-cities, or a vacation spot for the egyptian elite, like forest city in Malasya. It´s really hard to imagine
the new capital sustaining a massive population with very clear problems (mainly water supply)
تخطيط المدينه يسع أربعين مليون مواطن هتقضي على الازدحام تماما والمياه لقد قمنا بالفعل بإنشاء محطات ضخمه للتحليه والنهر الأخضر قأئم على الصرف الزراعي من المياه المهدره وتوفير المياه للزراعه
@@alaazakaria5738 that sounds really awesome!
Western media claim cities built by China like Kilamba are ghost towns but this is not true at all, they are full and vibrant, just watch videos from locals to see for yourself.
you under estimate the power of corruption in Egypt.
abandoned mega cities? lol, you mean like Shenzhen which China turned it from a small fishing village into the most futuristic city in the world with 12+ million population in just 40 years? I guess you are one of those people who prefer to be helped by westernern countries like USA. Speaking of Americans, they could only complete some 30 km length of high speed rail in the last 20 years while the Chinese has built a HSR network of 40,000 km during that time span. you should be grateful that China is working on this project, BTW, it's 2023 and the project is on schedule and soon will be handed into the hands of Egyptian government.
Very informative. As someone living in Egypt with little knowledge of the city, absolutely loved the video. My only concern is of how it's planning to tackle the water shortage and when is it expected to actually hit the country. Thanks for the video!
The government constructs the city and all other cities in the desert to shift population growth from the Nile valley to the desert. So, it will decrease the illegal building on fertile lands and inhibit population growth in old cities to maintain fertile lands for agriculture.
By tapping into underground water and using sra water distillation. There is no other choice. Egyptians will reach 150 million by 2030. The nile's water won't increase by 50%
You will certainly not live in this city
Ey nice, someone else from Egypt
@@SSGuvola
Why not?
This reminds me what happened here in Brazil during the 1950s With president Kubitschek. The dude decided to relocate the nation's capital (it was Rio at the time) to a more strategic location. Problem was that instead of picking a city like São Paulo or Belo Horizonte, the dude decide to create a new city from scratch (Brasília, our current capital) the amount of money that was lost at this project was so great that in the end the creation of Brasília brought more dispair than actual prosperity 😬
Actually the idea of making the capital at the central plateau wasn't his. It was already a century old at the time. And I dispute the Idea that Brasilia wasn't profitable: it is the 3rd largest city in Brazil today and it is at the very center of the area with the fastest growing sector in the country's economy: Tropical Agriculture.
What’s crazy is how the entire city was built in 41 months, quite a milestone for its time.
@@alexpecktacular how much money did they spent
@@zarits11mode23 pretty sure like $1.4B
imagine how much taxpayer money would be spent hauling politicians by helicopter if they moved the capital to são paulo...
It’s exciting to learn that Egypt is going big building for the future. With its unmatched history of architecture and distinct aesthetic I’m filled with anticipation of a new wonder all of humanity can take pride in.
It is built upon oppression, wanna take pride in that ?
@@omartaher3600 Yes humans are flawed. If you or I held real power we would be corrupted also. Suck it up.
@@omartaher3600
Shut up !
@@martinbrown2268 can’t wait for this to sit as a half finished failure in the middle of a dessert just like what the saudis did.
When will the Dumbass governments realize they can’t just will these grand cities into existence they are far to ambitious and the demand for the expensive housing and excessive sports venues will never be there.
Not to mention moulding a city out of little districts connected with highways lacks so much foresight it’s almost unbelievable considering they problem they are trying to escape is congestion.
@@omartaher3600 found the islamist.
This is a great capture of the ongoing project but you missed one important topic which is transportation from the new capital to other cities and within the new capital itself. You should check it out, it's worth another episode. Keep up the good work bro 👌👏
I live in Australia and I can't help but find the construction of Egypt's new capital completely exciting! I am a bit of an Architect myself and I have fallen in love with the new design for Egypt. I cant wait to see the city in its full completion!
Ok sir . President Sisi has already ordered the gouvernment to move to the new capital . And inaurgation will be next year may be the 1st quarter
The 1st phase is almost finished ,2nd one in 2025 and 3rd and final one in 2030
If you are visiting Egypt soon I can give you a tour there
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@acutee2 Show proof that the Egyptian government paid this channel. If not, shut up and sit down.
I appreciate the efforts to reference their history and Egyptian identity in their architecture and city planning. That is an apportunity that was squandered by cities like Dubai.
Dubai really doesn't have history, prior to discovery of oil, it was a fishing village for nomads
@@saptaccrvima3563 Fair point, but Dubai represents a region, and I'm sure I can think of a few designs that would distinctly reference Arabian heritage.
@@saptaccrvima3563 I wanted to comment in same vein. It is Egypt we're talking about here -- not some nondescript land; unless one doesn't know what Egypt means in history
And....Dubai and KSA will help fund this....fyi
@@RockBrentwood If these projects don't come to life and the economic and social situation worsens especially with the water crisis, people will revolt AGAIN, now that's something "Dubai and KSA" don't want! so sure.. they will fund this alright
The main problem in Egypt is education, while the elite do have access to great institutions most of the population doesn't, and the elite generally have ambitions to leave the country for opportunities elsewhere (there has been cases where highly educated individuals where denied exit so they stay and work there) You can hardly make an international city without a penchant for innovation
Главная проблема Египта,то что до 2030 года половину бабок на строительство всей этой херни спиздят!! И уже начали..🤣🌺🤣
@@alexbrands11 Garbage? I don’t see why you would say such a thing. Go have a look at your country first then come and talk about another country. Solve your issues first then try and solve others.
Even the “great” institutions arnt that great in my opinion. Schools anyway, I don’t know much about collages, but the level of education in schools is about the same with public schools in places like the UK and the USA in Egypt the only differences I can think of are the campus school trips and extra curricular activities. The main reason people from elite school get good grades is because they take a lot of private lessons
Even with half decent education in some fields, there are no work or research aspects for the tech sector.
@@oxolord they’re trying 🤷♂️
It’s so heart warming seeing someone creative like you interested in Egypt . I wish to see more similar videos 😊
Please fire the guy in charge of naming all of this
Not the final name, only a temp
lmao fr
Lol
What was the title ?
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
That makes me happy! People of Egypt deserve the best, greetings from Saudi 🇸🇦
You are literally a Bedouin
achik ahmed amine yup I’m a bedouin with a history and ancestors who changed your culture and language and religion forever , now you+ your father & grand father are named with arabic bedouin names ! So proud to be a bedouin 😆🇸🇦
This city won't give them anything
The people of Egypt deserve to be physically separated from their government with the one road leading to said centre of power being controlled with dozens of military checkpoints?
@@Sami-jg6fh your ancestors didn’t change it lmao, without Islam. Y’all would have been barbaric. Sorry brother but you forget tot mention the main thing
"Traffic is bad, boss"
"You're right, let's build more cloverleaf interchanges."
*facepalm*
Ah, the boss is a fellow Cities Skylines player I see.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@acutee2 perhaps you should move your comment to the main thread as it has nothing to do with our city skylines reference
@@runcoltrun He is literally just shitposting that same comment on all threads.
@@nicolainielsen7700 well... It is the internet after all
I love hearing about these projects. It’s great to hear news like this instead of the constant mentions of war, waste and oil. Those subjects are ever-present in the history of man and it’s much healthier to focus on constructive and creative matters.
100% agreed
To bad this is related still
For so long Egypt had been waiting for their time to shine. This is it. Love from India!
Except that it's not Ancient Egyptian rising again but a more islamic Egypt. How can we Indians be glad?
@@varoonnone7159 Well if only hindus mind their own business
@@varoonnone7159 You can cry...
@@varoonnone7159 They will not shine as an Islamic country
@@glitchmatrix8699 Ok hindu bingo 3rd world guy.
Love how they're combining their heritage and history with the modernity of a metropolitan city and capital. Aspiring. Just hope it won't be an empty city like some cities built from scratch.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
Well 6 new cities have been built in cairo from scratch in the past 40 years and no they are thriving, i live and work in one, much better than central cairo.
new cap is bigger than all of them combined.
Note: don't mind the trolls who spam each comment with copy pasted replies.
@@ma.s2386 Those cities are great and are for the people and have nothing to do with this new capitol. This move for the regime buildings is simply a way for the dictator to avoid protestors knocking at his door circa 2011/13. Sometimes trolls stand for more than sycophants like Neo who are obviously being paid to spread lies and bolster Sisi's shit that is hurting Egypt, its people and its neighboring countries. RESIST.
@@acutee2
Again you're cluless, i work there, it's nothing like you say.
You actively advocating against building, what is that ? Resist what ? Building a better future ?
todays egyptians heritage is basically just arabs who took over the country 700bc, some few might be related to the ancients of egypt but very slightly.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Cairo bids for the Summer Olympics sometime in the future. Most infrastructure is already there thanks to these new cities and especially in the new capital. Those two sports complexes are looking very promising.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@acutee2 lol you are copy pasting the same comment on every thread. For the 2 child law, he did mention that it was an initiative not a law. Am not sure from where are you but traffic is definitely a major problem in Cairo and Giza. "These new universities are not being built", lol my sister is already in one of these universities, you can check their websites. What a liar. For halaib triangle, it is an Egyptian territory. Deal with it.
@@acutee2 I dont know where you do get your info from and i dont know what your intentions are, but you are doing nothing but bullshitting. The universities are up and running already and i've been working on the monorail project myself so i know a thing or two about the country's direction on doing an outstanding transportation system.
I think you meant Olimpia Greece ) they have all the original infrastructures )
@@acutee2 thank you for being the voice of reason! Something is very wrong with this regime. Egypt is going down a dangerous road
So obsessed with the heavy use of pharaonic/ancient Egyptian architecture in building this new capital. Impressive and shows direct continuity in Egyptian history.
U would be amazed by all the Pharaonic structure there, everything has something pharaonic in it and the Governmental district looks like historical site itself
damn. hopefully everything goes well in egypt.
I’m excited to see the new Egypt in the coming years! Way to go Egypt! 🇪🇬
Welcome to here "Egypt".
I really like that the Oblisco is pretty much a modernized version of the historical monument. So cool!
The presidential palace is better
Both are very cool looking buildings I hope to see them realized and viewed for real.
thats what they say at 11:58
Best building to be owned by a egyptian Mega-Corp which acts as godly overlords over all the small poor people. XD
@@g0lgrim1 the people in Egyptian prisons live better than the citizens of your country
I really hope that this new capital is more of a city than a massive monument like Brazil's Brasília. A massive hell of oversized building and seas of concrete/asphalt doesn't stimulate innovation and economic prosperity, and it will probably just propagate the transit problem.
It is a political city. For government.
@@leeo268 but, at least as it's shown in the video, the city is also inteded to be a economical/scientific center. And for that it needs to have the characteristics that bring people together.
As a Brazilian, I
totally agree. Based on the images, its not exactly a new city. Its part of the great Cairo and this will help with density.
my guess is that they are relying on the failed project of New Cairo & the surrounding cities to make it really work out fine. you have to cross New Cairo to go to the NCC from Cairo.
Don't worry, I can already smell a financial crisis for Egypt LOL.
They are not capable of this project - This is a classic build like hell before a huge bust scenarios we have seen so many times before :p
I was in Cairo about six years ago and the biggest problem was not the traffic, it was the garbage. It piled up everywhere and our guide lived in a neighborhood that had a guards patrolling around the clock that no outsider could dump their garbage there. I hope, they are planning for those problems, too.
I'm so happy you made this, I hope we'll see more about middle eastern, African and Asian megaprojects that we often not hear about
Most of the worlds recent mega projects have been in Asia and Middle East I think you just don’t watch the news
@@LlnusTechTips. I watch, I want others to know about us
@@LlnusTechTips. I’m sure there are many mega projects in African countries that are being made. Like the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, and the Technology City in Kenya. And I also heard about the Dangote Oil Refinery in Nigeria.
@@Omer1996E.C I agree, these new mega projects that different countries are making is really interesting to hear. I just heard about the new capital city in Egypt. It’s fun to hear about great things coming in the future from many countries.
China has reversed desertification....as USA wallows in xenophobia and hatred.
That looks like a nightmare for anyone outside of a car. Everything is spread so far apart and all the renderings seem to show 10-20 lane wide roads. Simply unbelievable that someone would think that's a good idea in 2021.
It is an international city after all, adopting American urban design is but the cherry on top ;)
Yeah bad news pal, that's the truth for every city in desert, who would walk on even a kilos on 40°C
@@putraduha3176 so how does middle eastern lives before cars?
this isnt europe bro its too hot to expect the upper class to actually walk anywhere outdoors, although it would have been interesting to have an underground metro system for the public, and another underground system for the government, to facilitate below ground car-less traffic (this wasnt included in the video, but it was part of the planing for the city, not sure if its still as ambitious as it was intiially)
@@gruzit2622 make densely packed cities, like old cairo
Egypt: the pioneer and venue of megaprojects since 3000 BC
But not with the same people
@@peterrooke5336 Yes they were some joggers from Detroit, right?
@@peterrooke5336 same people same land, only a buffooon thinks otherwise.
@@desertpeon7831 he's probably one of these nazi s**theads who think ancient Egyptians and Sumerians were nordic white
@@peterrooke5336 you are probably a black .. you guys the only ones that have this theory about us.. because you are trying to belong to any civilization to makeup for the oppression in your history by the Europeans.. but you picked the wrong civilization to stick yourself to it
such a good video. I am so invested in this and I cant wait to see the end result!!!
W video
W Egypt
It really looks like the city of the future, like a futuristic ancient egyptian city.
Let's just hope it's not going to be another Dubai.
This video really set this city as some Dubai in the making for some reason..but okay, they failed to mention the densely populated areas around the city and never-ending ports being built for the suez canal...and the facts that it's perfectly built to connect three of the biggest cities in the country and one of the richest and is going to be the heart of the country in every way shape and form
Yea I hope it's not going to be like Dubai too
What is wrong with dubai??
@@lordwar4585 It's a façade. It literally feels fake.
@@nicolainielsen7700 true ...no true spirit
I really enjoyed this video and would like to answer the most commonly asked questions in the comments,
1- Regarding the transportation to/from and within the new Administrative Capital:
Egypt is extending the highways and roads within the old Cairo and around it through establishing and upgrading the current road infrastructure.
Egypt is also extending the Cairo Metro project to connect the western side of the Nile to the eastern side, and eventually linking the Metro to the biggest station connecting all railways: The Central Station "Adly Mansour" containing a subway station, an electrified train station, and a shuttle bus station to connect the Adly Mansour Central Station with the Cairo International Airport through a direct one trip.
The Adly Mansour station also is the connecting station for the currently in-progress LRT (Light Rail Train). The LRT connects as far as the 6th of October City in the west, to the new Administrative Capital, and all the way to Ain Sokhna city on the western shore of the Red Sea's Gulf of Suez. The LRT would probably expand to reach the new Alamein city on the Mediterranean Sea western of Alexandria.
In addition to all the projects established/under construction in the area of Giza, Alexandria, Cairo, New Cairo and the New Capital, the highways connecting all the governorates and cities in Egypt have been/are being upgraded in addition to a major overhaul of the railway lines and trains.
2- Regarding the no. 1 problem: Water poverty:
Egypt is considering all the diplomatic solutions to solve any conflict around the construction of the GERD in Ethiopia.
Moreover, Egypt is establishing a huge number of water treatment plants to repurpose agricultural and industrial waste for desert reclamation as "Bahr Al-Baqar Water Reclamation Plant" located on the western bank of the Suez Canal. It is considered the largest wastewater treatment plant in the world (The facility is composed of three plants which were garnered three titles from Guinness World Records, and they are the World’s Largest Water Treatment Plant; World’s Largest Sludge Plant; and, World’s Largest Ozone Generator).
Egypt is also expanding in sea water desalination plants in newly established coastal cities especially in Sinai.
In addition to the plans to increase the water resources, many governmental initiatives are on the ground to decrease water waste in homes, agriculture and industry as well.
I tried to be as thorough as possible. All the details and further information regarding these projects and plans are available with a little Google search. I didn't want to put reference links in the comment in order not to be suspicious :D
THANK YOU !
@@dee_hfgblank1617 welcome!
Building more lanes and more highways will not fix the congestion problem. It never does. They are stuck in the 1970s with that thinking.
@@Am-Not-Jarvis it does actually
@@Am-Not-Jarvis
so you know the real solution to fix it ?
I'm not Egyptian yet I feel happy watching this. Respect from Syria 🇸🇾❤🇪🇬
Wow, this is a great idea and surely won’t be a huge disaster! I am so excited about this!!1!!11!
Literally every dictator has done this with varying levels of success.
@@TheWoollyFrog it might be a success for the dictator but will it be a success for the economy?
@@freezingicy9457 If running an urban park six times larger than Central Park in the desert is an indication of how much thought they put in the entire project, then most likely it won't. This is why cities should be planned and built by people with degrees in the filed and not man-children with money and power.
Egyptian here living around 20 minutes away from the construction site. Say what you will about the government and their usual incompetence, but this project is honestly one of the few saving graces. Just hoping they do something so it doesn't turn into another traffic blackhole.
I should also mention here that although this is inarguably the biggest ongoing project, work pace has picked up all over the country over the past two years, new roads are being built, thousands of miles and alternative routes. Infrastructure in general is going though a complete overhaul. New cities and housings etc.
For once, I can proudly support their vision and what they're currently doing.
Edit: Typos and phrasing
It’s annoying a.f. to write something that fucked so high by the people - everything should be measured to the perfection. But doesn’t stop higher to write something about so hard so much.
Where are they getting the Water for all this?
@@Raging103 so this popped up in notifications - so-no, they were praising cats, but were afraid of running out of water from the river Nile; so now they are not afraid of going out of water - no they probably are… but now the city is moved wouldn’t it demolish the density of the previous capitol that is still will be settled there? but being just less pointed out in the denying, but be not completely brought out … so: not bringing it out completely would be more likely… or pushing the thought to combine of the potentiality it could potentially overflow from the sea, when ocean water would be more moved by the fragility - which probably not - the hills and mountains take millions of years to flatter so it needs that to happen to let the water overflow the city that is old capitol or like more likely to overflow but that’s just a concept of a thought that is a concern
What about war with Ethiopia?
@@jakesmall8875 there isn’t a war?
It’s because Cairo got destroyed in the transformers movie if you remember, so they gotta build a whole new city
I love this 😭❤️
Hahah😂🤔🤔
I'm loving how Egypt is really taking in the ancient ancestry in they're building
Their ancestors smile upon them.
There ancestors were pagans
@@saheb-jg9nj And it's a pity they became monotheists. Paganism was the rootcause of all the ancient civilisations' greatness
@@saheb-jg9nj that literally every one ancestors
thankfully. imagine they would make a new dubai. would be horrible
The intro song name is CONTINENT by Adrian Berger (ANBR) 0:40
thank you my good sir
looks so unlivable, with those massive highways cutting through everything
I suspect a lot looks like that from satellites.
exactly! looks like something i would design in cities skylines!
Not just unbelievable, also not sustainable. but this capital is build to enable military control of the state
It is actually very pedestrian friendly in the way the neighbourhoods are designed and the way the Central Park (called the Green River) cuts the city in two halves with pedestrian friendly neighbourhoods branching out of it like “valleys”. The neighbourhoods in the city are called “wady” which which is the Arabic word for valley. The highways around the city are necessitated because the new capital is in the centre between Egypt’s most populous city Cairo and the Suez Canal Zone with all its manufacturing centres, so these routes are necessary for logistics and movement of trade goods.
@@gitgut4977 What makes you say that?
Well, I hope people actually decide to migrate in once it’s fully built. A city without people can never be a city - various mega projects around the world have learned the hard way that country populations may not always embrace new developments
Edit: yeah, I’ll be honest, reviewing this video again and this project is just a dictator throwing money around for the sake of it. There’s no way the average Egyptian citizen will be able to live here, this is just an excuse to siphon away funds needed to maintain infrastructure in places where people already live. It’s a city for the rich and powerful so they can ignore problems elsewhere in their country. I’m a bit ashamed it’s received so much attention.
His gonna force them he said it 😂😂
From my experience, egyptians love to migrate to new cities
China has it's own very specific reasons for uninhabited cities, such are extremely rare anywhere else.
@@piuthemagicman What are their reasons?
@@zarits11mode23 you hate Egyptian rule don't you? No body will force anything
As an Egyptian living in Cairo, I'm really blown away by this. I just realized how oblivious I was of the change that's happening around me.
I’m Egyptian too. Also we both have the same last name. We’ll sort of there was a problem when my parents moved so my dad had to change his last name and well you get the idea
@@superiorflame2654 that's cool I was living in Saudi Arabia, were you too?
@@ismailhabib97 No my parents moved to America
@@superiorflame2654 oh so your last name was Habib now it's not, understandable
@@ismailhabib97 It’s hard to explain. When my dad moved to America they got his fourth last name instead of his last name so my dad took a few years to change it back to his real last name. But he already had me and my sister so he didn’t change our last name until years later
Amazing. Would love to see it when its completed. Good job Egypt, from Hungary.
ماشاءالله حفظكم الله اخواننا في مصر 🇪🇬🤍🇰🇼
This city is extremely centralized. While centralization is great to achieve top-performance and synergies in a very small area, it largely excludes the rest of the city from participating. The plan also pretty much dictates housing districts per income or occupation. This brings the danger of supporting inequality of income, opportunities and district development over the coming decades. The most "important" or promising districts will receive the most attention in city development while other districts will not receive the necessary funding and decline. The horrific dependency on traffic to reach centralized hot-spots will increase this disparity even further and is discussed as its own problem in other comments already.
I wish them the best of luck with their new cities, they are going to need it!
The more compact government administration is the only thing they solved it would appear. The central park is nice, but will there be smaller neighborhood parks? I agree with many here who shake their head at the widely separated work, live, and play functions. If they could walk to some of these, it would be better. Public transportation yes, but not as a substitute for building things together rather than apart. This reminds me of zoning, where you cannot possibly live over a store because it must be in a zone all by itself. I see a reference to Washington, DC with the central axis of buildings.
Yeah I kept thinking this city was clearly built by a dictatorship. Centralized government buildings outside the core of the city screams that they don’t care about people’s voices. The elites will just stay together
The project is grandiose, and standards of living is well below poverty in the USA. Egypt needed to develop its own population, which can bring tourists to see the best monuments on earth. Clean streets, clean people would be my first priority if I was running Egypt.
Its all seperated mess make you need to have a car
@@southcolumbia402 The planners of this would probably shrug and wonder why people would balk at driving for groceries to park on a massive parking lot, drive to a massive one level shopping mall surrounded by miles of parking lots, drive to a massive central park to park on a massive parking lot to enjoy the park, drive miles to a massive government complex to park on a massive parking lot, and so on. Nothing wrong with spending half of a day in a car on massive ten lane freeways stopped in traffic.
Glad to see Egypt return to prosperity. What an amazing country that represents all of humanity.
I wouldn't call borrowing billions from China 'prosperity'
@@building_keevo Neither would I.
@@building_keevo well their GDP has grown 🤷🏻♂️
Marig
Dream on.
@@BalkanReport It's easy to grow an economy that's recovering from uprisings...
So cool. This city looks amazing, I look forward to visiting it - and the pyramids / red sea - when it is completed.
finally egypt is upgrading itself it was very hard for them to modernise themselves due to ancient cities. its an old country im glad they are still growing stronger.
Although Sisi (President of Egypt) is a dictator, his mentality is literally different from all of his predecessors. He seeks to develop every inch of Egypt. I am Egyptian and it seems that this man will make me love the dictatorship.
@@fakeaccount6769 please stop listening to propaganda. I don't see any signs of dictatorship in Egypt. If you want to know what dictatorship means look at China or Soviet Russia or even North Korea, It's incomparable.
The video didn’t mention the 60 km long smart monorail line in the new capital that will open for commuters in late 2022 connecting the new capital to Cairo’s metro lines. There is also an electric LRT train in the new capital which will connect its neighbourhoods to the newer cities around it mentioned in the video (it will connect all of the industrial hubs east of Cairo, west of the Suez Canal economic zone and going through the New Capital). That LRT line is done and currently going through trials in order to open in early 2022. There is also Egypt’s first high speed rail line which starts in the Red Sea port of Ain Sokhna going through the New Capital, then Cairo then 6th of October all the way to Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea. The high speed rail work began mid 2021 and should be finished in 2023. All of the above modes of transport connect in a single node in the New Capital’s central transportation station which will be in the centre of the city, close to the downtown and will also be the main hub for the green buses in the city allowing easy transfer between lines. This city also has Egypt’s first bike friendly road network so people could cycle in the streets to anywhere they want to go! Besides that every residential neighbourhood in the city has a little “green valley or wadi” which are small mixed use green areas/parks which are connected to the Green River Central Park (which bisects the city in two), meaning you can go anywhere in the city by walking on the trails in this network of parks and pedestrian areas...
Regarding some of the misinformed comments I saw here, sometimes I think westerners just don’t want to see developing countries like rise economically even though some of these developing “third world” countries were the birthplace of human civilizations like China, Egypt, India etc...
as the developed nations are moving away from the automobile, the third world seems to embrace it. Third world countries love to copy the worst parts of auto-oriented American urban planning which even America is moving away from in order to densify its cities. It seems like the third world is always behind the trend.....
@@anantpathak2899 by 2030 Egypt will be come a green energy country dummy uses everything with clean energy
@@user-or1rm1ol3q All countries that try to make a new capital from scratch struggle to infuse the city with organic charecter and life. On top of this the cities are always reliant on cars. Why dont you Egyptians take pride in the historical streetscape of Cairo, make it better and emulate it for your new capital instead of copying the worst of outdated 1960s american suburban planning.
In addition to buses, will this city have higher capacity public transport, such as a metro system?
@@MattPerdeck yes, the first metro line is made of light rail transit electric trains which were installed in October and are undergoing testing in order to open early 2022. There are I believe 11 stations in the new capital in that line which also branches out into near cities east of Cairo. The second line connects with the LRT line in the new capital main transportation station, but it is a monorail line which is stated to open late 2022, the piers for the monorail and its controlling systems are already installed with some of the monorail cars being installed by bombardier last month for testing.
It would be interesting to see how they solve their water issues or address them with this new city in the middle of the desert and whether they learn from the mistakes of North American infrastructure and neighborhoods. Would also be interesting to see how they fund the building of this new city.
uhmm im sure we all know how that will be resolved here. The Nile water will be redirected to the new HQ and yeah the peasants suffering from Cairo's water crisis maybe addressed later down the line.
what problems? are you referring to the very old and dilapadated places run by democrats for 50 years?
@victor bruun love someone who claims to know excatly how to fix the world but cant form a proper sentence. where are we going to get all the radioactive materials and where is all the waste going to go?
Solar energy and Desalination plants. Why use fresh water when you have the energy in abundance to use sea water. Solar power to make Hydrogen+oxigen to transport. Hydrogen and Oxygen burning to drive turbines for electrical energy while having fresh water as waste product.
@@swankshire6939 modern nuclear power plants are efficient enough so how we get the material is a non-issue and can actually reuse nuclear waste for more fuel. Nuclear has advanced a lot in the past decades and the old dogma against it is almost all outdated now
Hey there Neo, your video is amazingly well done and it is clear you put an immense amount of effort into it. As an Egyptian myself whose school is in the heart of new capital I can tell you the progress is astonishing. In such little time they have done so much. For example, the iconic tower now is so high that I can see it from my home in El Sherouk city! And the city's gates are now complete. I'm excited for this new Egypt.
How is that big tower helping the poverty and corruption in your country?
It's a new egypt build on the interest of a few leaving behind the poor and impoverished to rot in Cairo. You know nothing please watch the video I gave you.
@@Bamm1894 Well, your comment expresses lack of basic understanding of how Egypt's economy works,
A large portion comes from tourism and the new capital completes the ancient rich history with the modern capability of today. Simply, look at the Emirates. A country whose people lived in tents just a few years ago now stands as a global destination for tourism changing their whole economy to the best. They played their cards right and Egypt is on that path. You ask how will that tower help the economy, just look at Khalifa tower for example, that brings MILLIONS every year alone for the Emirates.
Think before you comment.
@@goldendragon4891 The way a tourism economy works, no matter where you go, is simple.
Some people have it really good, everyone else gets fucked.
In Dubai for instance they even have slavery that everyone pretends isn't slavery.
Egypt, which can't even muster up the intelligence to create f'ing traffic laws is undoubtedly the same.
All this project does is provide a shiny thing that makes the lucky few feel good about themselves while they grind their heels into the poor.
What’s the point of seeing the iconic tower when you live under poverty line ?
The great thing is that Egypt is building many other cities at the same time other than the new capital .
From 5% inhabited lands to 25% in the the coming years
@@user-or1rm1ol3q
Wooow
@@user-or1rm1ol3q كداب اوى من 7 % ل 14%
@@moazkhaled6381 ده اللي اتعمل في ٢٠٢٢ يا كصمك انما مشروع توشكي و محطه بحر البقر و الدلتا الجديده هيخليهم ٢٥ في ٢٠٣٠
I'm in one of the universities that already opened in the knowledge city ( Egypt University of informatics) and I'm really excited for everything.
هي خاصة و بفلوس غالية؟
@@Nnnnnn7-f6j بس يا فقير
@@Nnnnnn7-f6j ...إنت صدقت
This has Brasilia's monumental axis and USA's suburbs written all over it. Both huge mistakes from the last century. I don't think this can go well, but surely hoping for the best.
Very professional presentation
Im so proud f Egypt and Egyptian❤❤ people eventhough im not Egyptian
Im from saudi💚
It really looks like it will be beautiful. Seeing the lotus, ankh and vulture wings included in giant form in the layout is amazing and the giant Obelisk, quite nice.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@dollswithhistory3643 Oh no, now you're copying and pasting that too? Do you even know if that's true? The OP gave zero evidence, and most agree that it's completely nonsensical.
This was very impressive! It gave me a completely new perspective on Egypt! It will be fascinating to see how this new city develops in the future. I'd never heard of it before which also shows how much Europe or Eurpoean media still underestimate the big economies on the African continent.
Strange, it didn't give me any new perspective at all. Must not be 'European media' but just u then.
underestimate or not give a shit about because it isn't even happening on the same continent, hence it's pointless to talk about..the world would be WAY better off without international "news"..
@Der Traubengott Ok und du bist vermutlich AfD-Wähler.
You got quite a number of negative comments. I guess they shouldn't watch YT videos if they aren't interested in what happens on other continents.
@@sendmorerum8241 Yes, say it louder so everyone can hear you 💯
Egypt has WAY more money than I had thought. These are some serious goals.
They got the Suez canal
this huge project is truly fascinating and i cant wait to see it completed. definitely puting Egypt into my bucket list once it is finished.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@dollswithhistory3643 Ugh.
They're going to run into the SAME congestion/traffic problems because the new capital is designed like Houston, Texas. There is no walkability. I see neighborhoods spread out as far as the eye can see. I see highways cutting the "central park" off from the surrounding areas. It's going to be a very car-centric city unless they also invest HEAVILY in public transit (buses, trams, metro etc.). I can't help but feel that this money could have been better spent to uplift the living standards of millions of egyptians.
Well he failed to mention the monorail and various transportation options that will be in the new capital moreover misr mosque is the bigger than aftah el aleem mosque
You do realise this is IN the dessert? People cant walk around in the heat and whats wrong with cars, if the infrastructure has a built in tolerance for the expected growth.
@@ivzh5025 why would walking around the dessert be an issue. you DO realize that Egypt existed just fine prior to the car, right? it’s obvious that at least SOME architectural solutions to the heat have been beat. Car infrastructure is only going to cause more people to drive and make this new capital city just as congested and polluted as the last
@@ivzh5025 Do you live IN an Egyptian desert? I practically live in a "desert" and the temperatures are lovely
@@ivzh5025 that's the exact reason why sqare miles upon miles of black, sun-oven asphalt is a bad idea.
As an architect and urban planner, planned cities never live up to its plans or ambitions but it is good to keep dreaming. One day we will figure out how to make sure everyone has a safe city, clean air etc.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
Nice of you to say “planned cities never live up to its plans” as a planner. Maybe the problem is not the planned cities, but corrupted planners?
تحيا مصر من السعودية ♥
تحيا ارض الحرمين الشريفين من ام الدنيا ❤️💜❤️
As an Egyptian I did study a lot about that but I feel happy to actually learn more about it and to see what other Non-Egyptians think about it!Proud to talk about my country!
I don’t like it. Deserts are boring g
@@drdavinsky ok
@@drdavinsky do you have any other opinion? Where should we build our country? We don't have any other place but desert
I think its ambitious but it is likely not a long term feasible thing to make a city of that massive size, in a desert with so few water.
@@drdavinsky tbh it is motivational if they can build such grand city in the middle of nowhere
I've been to Cairo twice now and I don't know but I love the city. I saw this New Cairo City and it's actually amazing.
It's all plastic, fake and being built by Sisi slave labour! $5 a day construction workers are on. No safety measures, no contract!
@@clintireland389 😂 who you trying to fool
@@Buccallmann456 no tourists no investment no freedom no future with evil Sisi. Your the fool,
Egypt is one of coolest(cool not cold) countries in the world. Rich histroy, but also great location and nice weather. Also like their flag
maybe for men, but 99% of women experienced sexual harassment and sexual agressions.
@@TheKilianCod every country has its own set of problems and no country is perfect
@@TheKilianCod do you know that sexual harassment is higher in your country?
Specialists in 22 arab countries according to Euronews said that Egypt was the country were there is the least amount of equality between men and women. My country is ranked 26th out of 189 countries in parity women/men against 116th for Egypt. I'm not saying my country's the greatest, even tho it is, but Egypt really has progress to do on this point.
@@user-or1rm1ol3q this ain't true, and the only reason for which it could potentially be true is because women in those kind of countries are afraid to be molested by local authorities if they try to defend themselves
I like this, good luck Egypt. I hope you guys prosper. I'm excited to visit the country one day, and by the looks of how these things are going. The pyramids and historical sites won't be the only places to visit in Egypt.
they wont
egyptians arent free. the junta rules with us support
But don't you think it's really car-dependent? They actually build highways to connect different part of the city. And the city is just too widespread
Light train and monorail and high speed train is under construction
Cairo is pretty dense but people still use cars even for short distances for some reason
@@IllusiveDude I'm guessing it's hot as balls
@@julm7744
Yes, we know that because it hasn't been developed for decades
It is currently being developed and a number of new lines are being built
@@julm7744 Cairo metro is not bad it just covers limited areas but it is pretty good.
As a person who has family in Ethiopia, I'm happy that Egypt is being proactive to ease the tensions when it comes to the Nile. The East African region can't afford conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia, Let's all move forward to a better and more prosperous future! 😁
As an Egyptian, I agree
Conflict benefits no one. Ethiopia is also doing big things.
@@amerhamad4577 doing big ethnic cleansing.
Egypt has never wanted conflict despite the various attempts to provoke one.
@@ConquerorAR They have to cull their angry overpopulated male youth somehow...
I went there about 3 months ago honestly I was impressed about the work they have done in such a short time it looked like how Dubai was 5 years ago when it was being built I was super impressed that I went and bought an apartment there in a compound for like 150k usd
dubai 25 years ago not 5 years u mean !
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@acutee2 ?
@@acutee2 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@acutee2 keep crying
Great video, beautiful and immersive graphics
I hope it works out Egypt 🇪🇬! Your plans look freaking amazing! I truly hope it works out the Egyptian folks! The plans are fascinating. I truly believe Egypt 🇪🇬 can lead the the entirety of Africa with economic innovation.
Ah yes, the hallmark of any contemporary urban planning handbook: Segregated, single zone developments with meandering streets that don't connect with the outside urban fabric.
Probably the one main thing i don't see people talking about in this comment section! Like you stated, the new city coud lack a mixture of the different functions that a city offers. if e.g. living, business, sports and/or recreational activities are not mixed together, it will lose out on one huge quality: (social) cohesion. If there's no social cohesion and the streets will not be used at certain times during the day, the city will feel 'empty' and maybe even a bit unsafe at times. I think this is something that you'd like to avoid.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
according to other comments, there will be metro, light rail and monorail throughout this new development.
??? I assume you don't speak Arabic since you haven't been keeping up with what's actually being done, this city will be the meeting point of the entire country and you could travel from alexandria to Aswan in half an hour or so, this is a project that people have really been looking forward to, with 100 billion dollars being spent on this new entire city which will be operated 80% by green energy and electricity, people really can't get this city off their minds here. It's absolutely wildin
@@acutee2 And May you show the proof of that?
Pretty cool design/layout. I would love to see it when it is completed. I always wanted to go to Egypt.
WOW!!!!! I'm really excited about all of this. It's simply astonishing! I wish the egyptian nation the best of luck and prosperity! All love and support from a fellow lebanese
It's just a giant vanity project for the ruling class of Egypt to show off and to insulate themselves from everyone else. The dictator and his friends enjoy such decadence whilst the average Egyptian barely gets by, living in makeshift huts in the slums. It's an absolute kick in the teeth to the Egyptian people. The King of France left Paris for Versailles, because out there, he could insulate himself from the peasantry, and that ended in some head chopping
Almost 700k subs and absolutely deserved.
I like that they made most of the new buildings look like the ancient buildings of old.
Well if your gonna waste a ton of money on building a new city you might as well make it look nice
Our ancestors , we Egyptians proud of them and respect Their brain and what they did ❤️
More countries should do that. Instead we have this modernist bullshit that makes cities look lifeless.
This video is deeply false and is an ad by the Egyptian government. This is very clear as the map includes disputed territory only the government includes in its maps. These universities are not being built in the new capital according the schools, their is no 2 child law, the Mogamma closed years ago and is not a traffic issue. This video should be removed or at least marked as a advertisement. Neo should be ashamed for supporting a dictator and dishonoring the Egyptian people.
@@dollswithhistory3643 Yeah ok I lie , Don't come to our bad country 🥺
We somali 🇸🇴 we call Egypt masar(misir) the mother of the world now the Pearl of Africa proud of you Egypt🇪🇬
You are not welcome in Egypt
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@@Иваниван200 👎👎👎👎
you are most welcome in egypt
@@tahaelgebaly nope they aren't
من وجهه نظري الاسباب الرئيسيه للازدحام والتكدس السكاني والتي لا توجد فقط بالقاهره بل بتقريبا اغلب المدن المصريه هي عدم الاهتمام بالقري من حيث الخدمات وفرص العمل والمزارعين اللي بالغالب جزء منهم بيحتاج انه يسافر اقرب مدينه بشكل متواصل لقضاء احتياجه سواء بمصالح حكوميه او شراء متطلبات او للرغبه بالحصول علي حياه افضل او لفرص عمل افضل وبعد فتره من الوقت المدن اصبحت تعاني نفس القريه سواء من عدم توافر فرص عمل كافيه او لازدحامها وعندها يقرر الانتقال الي العاصمه وهكذا ، يجب الاهتمام بالمزارعين بالقريه وبالتالي توفير فرص عمل وعدم حاجتهم للانتقال بل سوف يحدث العكس لبحث الناس عن الهدوء لان بالاصل مصر دوله زراعيه .
Thanks for the video, it was interesting to see these projects in greater detail than short articles ever could. One small thing that I was hoping the video would touch on but didn't was how Chinese interests are very much in competition with western influence in Egypt. Funders, backers and stakeholders are important to review in any large infrastructure project.
could you please elaborate ?
(sigh) Should have known chinese loans would be involved.........
Woow , That'a so impressive . Go Egypt 🇪🇬 towards glory . good luck . love you from morocco 🇲🇦
I really wish countries that were really willing to spend this much money on from scratch cities would look back to their past for influences on their modern design. This is some of the best ive seen along with india's new capital. I just dont want another dubai, qatar or whatever glass skycraper city. Something unique would be amazing. recreate a modern version of the ancient egyptian cities
That's the plan, Egypt is using some really unique architecture in all its new cities (20 planned), you also have to remember that countries like Qatar and the UAE had nothing to draw from, so modern glass and steel is as much 'character' as you're gonna get.
The problem is it costs more money, even this project in Egypt will put massive strain on their balance sheet whilst most of the population will not benefit much.
@@jewellui The new admin capital (NAC), as all new Egyptian cities, is entirely funded from property sales, it doesn't affect the country's 'balance sheet' in any way. Each new Egyptian city is an independent company with its own balance sheet. The NAC itself will be publicly offered in the Egyptian exchange next year, with a $100B market cap.
@@MRawash what are you talking about? Property sales come after the property has been at least partly completed not before.
Yes the NAC “will be listed”, the project is already taking place, more money will come later. Meanwhile the government has borrowed billions to make this happen.
@@jewellui The "government" hasn't borrowed a single cent to put into these cities. And the first phase of the NAC is already mostly sold out and being paid for by the private sector, they're the ones doing most of the development and selling to individuals, the government itself is only providing the infrastructure. Not sure where you're getting your information/confidence.
people seriosly thing this is a good idea