Egypt doesn't like their capital so they're building a new one from scratch

Egypt doesn't like their capital so they're building a new one from scratch.

Why hasn't your country built a new capital yet?

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Are buildings bombproof or smthng?

Well at least Cairo was historical.

It costs a lot of money to build a capital and D.C isn't dangerously overcrowded or polluted like Cairo is.

There is no reason to change the capital.

We won't need to move it until climate change floods the potomac valley

because ours is much better

But we did.

>Courtesy of China
Stop chinese colonialism

A have a sudden urge to break all those fences.

I thought your God emperor declared such talk double plus ungood you eco terrorist.

>shit what do we do with all this steel capacity?
>lets just give out loans to shitholes so they use our steel

Relax they're muslim, they'll eventually get mad at china and start sending terrorists.

Because we are not Brazil, pictured is the official seat of the executive power, in the exact place where Moctezuma lived and later Cortés.

So Egypt's going to join the list of countries with bland, soulless, uninteresting capitals that no one would miss if it were nuked?

Good for them.

Our capital was Constantinople.
Athens was essentially built from scratch since it had like 5,000 people by the 1800s and it was irrelevant since like the 1300s (before that it was like the 3rd or 4th largest city)

Ottawa's sort of on a knife'edge between being a boring planned capital and a historic eastern Canadian city.

It's a planned capital, but it was built mimicking Westminster. So it's not Brasilia or Canberra tier, but its charms are very surface-level and it's a very uneventful and unhistoric city really.

>Courtesy of China
>"We dont like whitey colonizing us!"
>"S-sure China we accept your money"
It's not like there's never been a nation that was turned into a protectorate by their foreign financeers calling in their payments, r-right? What was their name again? Smreat Spritain or something? Nah, can't be. Must be thinking of something else.

Nice buzzwords.

Washington DC was built as a planned capital city due to states rights issues; it was considered better to set aside a separate area (the District of Columbia) so it couldn't be used by states as a political football.

The first capital of Canada was Quebec City, then Montreal (functionally), then Kingston, and finally Ottawa.

Quebec was the French capital. When French Canada was conquered by the British Empire, for a long while the blossoming metropole of Montreal (largest city on the continent) served as the functional capital, before the establishment of Kingston, Ontario.

When the US-Canada border was defined, the capital was too close to the US border, and since an invasion by the US was still a possibility, the capital flew north to Ottawa, a major tributary of the St. Lawrence river between Ontario and Quebec. It made sense symbolically to put the capital on the border between Ontario and Quebec.

Are Chinese building the city or Egyptians?
Or are Chinese just investing in it?
Egyptians would be gullible to let Chinese lay a brick as Chinese made buildings often collapse as Chinese are fucking shit at building quality structures.

Obviously Egyptians are building. It's in their DNA.

Even after all of the Arab dicking, the Egyptians still retain their excellence in slavishly constructing massive things.

we can't even build an airport in our current one

yah nah m8, the chinese are paying for their own construction companies to build in the Egyptian cities. It's corruption on a whole different level for the chinese politicians

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Wait what? How can we tell the Egyptians that Chinese will build cardboard skyscrapers? Their hearts will be shattered when they find out how crappy Chinese are.

Why would China itself fund any of it?

If the ground already exists you aren't building it from scratch.

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London is an all consuming beast which cannot be stopped or overpowered. If we built a new capital London will just end up devouring it.

I can see my home on here

holy shit it looks like a bad cyberpunk dream, what have you done to it

>mfw chinese steel is absolute shit tier unless QA'd by westerners

Shh, no tears now, only L O N D O N

No idea, Warsaw is a disaster

This tbch, was disappointed by the frankencity. At least Paris is still nice.

Looks nice

Washington D.C. is already a capital created from scratch. It must be the only legit "capital" city in the world.

>At least Paris is still nice
About that...

But we did. We call it "Fantasy Island"

No point. Our capital was already built from scratch and it's widely regarded as one of the most boring places in the country.

pls China gib new capital, London needs to be nuked

It was also built on top of a swamp.

To be fair, the whole country is pretty boring.

Canberra, DC and Brasilia are among some of the most uninspiring capital cities in the world. Why would you choose that?

its probably a very good idea to build a new functional capital

>Why hasn't your country built a new capital yet?
But they did

Every capital was built from scratch, it just depends how far back in time you look. The city of Oslo was founded around year 1000.

>Paris
>nice

Sure, if you like trash everywhere and gypos fighting muslims. Though the former is pretty fun.

I have been in Cairo. I can honestly say that building a new capital from a scratch is probably the best solution, after all, bombing 90% of city into rubble would probably be frowned upon by westerners.

>consuming beast which cannot be stopped or overpowered
Oh, how I understand you

At least you have plenty of room unlike brits. Still it's pretty funny when someone points to a cluster of commieblocks and says it used to be a resort town where some 18th century composer or writer would spend their summers to draw inspiration.

it must feed

looks like theyre building a generic glass shithole with no soul

at least when brazil did it they made unique style with national architect

it really looks awful for fucks sake

>muh China quality meme

>At least you have plenty of room unlike brits.
I mean finances, resourses etc. Moscow and less Spb devour too much of it to the detriment of other regions.

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What about those Japs.

Yup, which is another reason I'm glad we got out.

Yeah but at least they have an absurd amount of forests elsewhere to compensate

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>67% forest area

Exactly m8, it might look crowded on an island like Great Britain or even Japan, but the vast majority of the land here isn't built on.

>Courtesy of China
>China
>What could go wrong?

>Greater Tokyo Area
How the hell did those Japs holed UK?

neat

We really should. Dublin is a shithole and the least Irish city on the island. We should make one in Meath since that was the historical capital of Ireland. But the government's full of wankers that won't spend money on anything other than motorways going out to nowhere.

>historical gaelic capital
>least irish city on the island

Corkfag detected.

those glass ones are where concrete ones were, due to a certain mr hitler and post war depression, its an improvement.

>>historical gaelic capital
Founded by vikings and taken over by the English very shortly after. Glasgow is more Irish than Dublin.

When someone else succeeds, do you simply deny it happened because it hurts your feelings?

the UK in reality has a shit ton of space to build in, the vast vast majority of land in the UK is not built on, it's just owned by old aristocrats who'd rather get unlimited subsidies from the EU than build houses on it and deal with peasants.

>turku burns down
>r*ssians pay for the new capital
like pottery

Those forests are only there because they're on mountainous land that's not suitable for building tbf.

More cultural links between the two than China and Egypt though, so unlikely it'll occur at that scale.

This.