Why these Megacities are Still Empty

All over the world, new megacities are being built from scratch. Some of them remain empty, while others seem more promising. In this video we look at Egypt's new administrative capital, Nusantara, Sejong and Naypyidaw. These are 4 huge mega projects built for millions of people. So why are they still empty? Will they succeed in the future? Let's find out. For more skyscraper & megaproject content make sure to subscribe to Top Luxury!
0:00 Empty Megacities
0:45 Naypyidaw
2:54 Sejong
5:26 Egypt's New Administrative Capital
8:36 Nusantara
#megaprojects #ghostcity #megacities
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[@MegaBuildsYT]

Would you want to live in one of them? 😊👇

[@wisnumegantoro]

Ummm... No!

[@luism7248]

if i had to chose i would probably move to sejong

[@louiswong7136]

If the new city has good planning, better standard of living, and provides more opportunities, why not?

[@sudulagantibalajojibabu9475]

Can you say about another ghost City in INDIA. It is Amaravati please 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@sudulagantibalajojibabu9475]

Please bro about Amaravati please 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@takatamashiho7906]

I live in NayPyiTaw. It is like upper class city of Myanmar, many wealty and middle class family and less poor households. There is so many green spaces , parks and lakes and no traffic. It is not as ghost as people says

[@sudulagantibalajojibabu9475]

I respect you

[@stanleytanyitfoong]

Totally agreed ... There are 750,000 people who lived in NayPyiTaw , My dear, it ain't a ghost town. Dont listen to those XxXxXx (you know, those westxxx bitcxxxxx) Well support from Malaysia.

[@drewh3224]

I would suspect this video host never stepped his foot to anyone of those new capitals. He've never been there, the content is just out from the blue and imagination!

[@D-angelin.Moarar]

Yeah sounds like a segregated fortress for the country's elite away from the masses. Sounds even more awful that way.

[@blackicee8836]

You should include the weather conditions and temperature in summer.Kinda silly huh!I live in myanmar too.But when i saw your comment about Nay ''Puuu!'' Taw🙄i can't keep my self not to comment under your silly lie🙄.

[@Revante.]

As for Naypyidaw, if you read the news about the situation there, you will understand why Myanmar's new capital has become a ghost town. The military there were so bad that they did not hesitate to kill their own people for the sake of state power. Naypydaw is a clear example of the military's ambition to build a city for itself, and it's clear the people don't want to live with a group of serial killers.

[@MrPoornakumar]

Riki This city lacks basic infrastructure needed for the people who would work there, housing (that was built partly), schools & colleges for their kids, transport to cater for the expected population of at least half a million. Three years ago, one of the school children (a girl) was raped, as children had to go to schools far away in a city without people but only buildings.

[@farnorthmyanmar5185]

You just tell a joke. You should finish your tertiary education, so as to consider reasonally.

[@ianjung3099]

sorry but it was already hopeless before the coup

[@Gulitize]

the same is true for Egypts too

[@dansaber4427]

Cities are obsolete because of the internet.

[@Yosh1az]

Naypyidaw and Egypt's new administrative capital share one characteristic: they were designed for the upper class, not the common or everyday people.

[@D-angelin.Moarar]

Yeah, they are meant as fortresses for the country's elites to cement authoritarianism.

[@kellrik66]

Given that their current cities are on the best farmland Egypt should be building as many cities in the desert as it can afford.

[@fadyazmy5686]

@@kellrik66 this is not the only city that egypt is currently building Egypt has at least planned 14 new cities (some oof them are near completion) and some of them are still in the planning faze www.newcities.gov.eg/english/New_Communities/default.aspx

[@LiArrowMaster]

Of course, all of these cities are designed to flee the poor and the crime associated with them. These cities are so bureaucrats will not be confronted by the accelerating failure of their policies.

[@bodyloverz30]

Add the military government to the list.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Myanmar is filled with groups that want to become their own country and they've been in civil war since 1948, so understanding it from that perspective makes more sense. Still, it's like the Tatmadaw played Cities: Skylines for a few hours and then said "You know, I'm something of a civil engineer myself". Myanmar has tried to legitimize Naypyidaw by hosting the 2013 SEA Games, an East Asia Summit, and two ASEAN summits, and yet the place still feels empty and spread out because the military doesn't know how to build a proper city. Heck, Naypyidaw is ironically probably most famous for a workout girl dancing while the military headed for the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw assembly complex during a coup in 2021.

[@NoirMorter]

Agreed, military barely know how to build a modern base/fort anymore let alone a city!

[@AL-lh2ht]

Correction: They don't want independence. They want the country to become a democracy, instead of a military dictatorship (junta)

[@luarbiasawaras8700]

Could you give us a clue how a city suppose to be built ? My country now building a new capital city

[@NoirMorter]

@@luarbiasawaras8700 Most of the stuff I'd trust that I have found is at youngest 500 years old from Europe. The oldest is a lot older still.

[@Your_Favorite]

@@luarbiasawaras8700 udah percayain aja, yg jadi otorita IKN itu dulu yg pegang Sinarmas, coba liat hasil kota yg di bikin Sinarmas. semuanya juga udah di desain, tinggal bangunnya aja.

[@_jpg]

Admittedly, with an area of 465 square kilometers and roughly a population of 400.000, Sejong is neither big, nor really dense compared to other Korean cities, but it was planned to only have 500.000 inhabitants by 2030, so I guess they're on a good way

[@d.e.b.b5788]

It's also further away from the North Korea border, which is always a plus when we remember what was going on back in the 1950's. The war still isn't over, it's still just a cease fire at the moment.

[@WB-se6nz]

​@@d.e.b.b5788yeah, North Korea's strategy of invading the South involves bombarding Seoul with chemical weapons.. better to have the capital not a stone's throw away from the DMZ

[@Harrappa]

@@d.e.b.b5788crazy a cease fire where the country on one side of border has developed so much while one has actually went backwards 😂 it might be technically a ceasefire but don’t worry at this point there is no threat that North Korea will try to take Seoul from south

[@lionljb]

Egypts new administrative district also makes it harder for less wealthy people to Protest close to government buildings, or try anything like the 2011 or 2013 Revolutions, when it's a 12 hour walk through the desert with several military checkpoints

[@hameley12]

I'm glad you see the problem ahead before the construction is even up. From the moment I started reading articles online, I could already see one hundred problems with the infrastructure (soulless buildings with no character or charm from its culture), movement (transportation), security (police + military), economy (buying + selling + trash again building up in mass throughout the city), societal cultures (there are so many religions, languages, and non-dialects that will clash), ecology (number of people who should buy cars, # people who should use public transportation, # people who will only need electric scooters, bicycles) also the input of Solar, Air, and Water based-clean energy. By some time in the future, there should be remote schooling and public school that allow students to arrive at their destination without fear of being shot while attending. Building a city seems exciting, risky and a great investment but they *the men and women behind the Govt should be adjusting and securing EVERYONE no matter what status or gender or religious belief their citizens are, through a law that says 'You are safe and we will make sure of it'. But they never will.* Some of these projects seem like vanity projects, while others are moving their people for security and prosperity. Sorry for the long explanation I had a lot on my mind. 😊

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

egypt is a mistake, somebody should pluck the "haram" pyramids out of it and see how their useless economy fairs

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

@@hameley12 this is good knowledge to have

[@goldenboy6667]

same with what will happened in nusantara indonesia. no one will get protest when the government move to nusantara lol

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

I think New Santara makes the most sense of the lot, as Jakarta is literally drowning. It's also the most likely city to see people moving to en masse for this reason.

[@stepheneastern7661]

Just for a little correction, it's called Nusantara, a Sanskrit word meaning the Archipelago basically, because Indonesia consists of thousands of islands, and also some old kingdom references from the history of old

[@KoeSeer]

eventhough jakarta is drowning, people don't want to move there even when it's done. reasons: most of people that have to be relocated is from jakarta to a new island across the sea in the middle of jungle. what they got? jakarta has anything they want. cinemas, malls, parks, transportation, night clubs, etc. what this "city" has? government office building, government complex, jungle, and ghosts and entities that live in jungle

[@stepheneastern7661]

@@KoeSeer well, there are several reasons why they inevitably have to move according to government regulations. first, they are civil servants. Their job is to fully serve the people, and be bound by government regulations. like it or not. Second, the government is not that stupid in building a new capital city. in the design that has been formalized by the new law, there are many buildings that will accommodate the secondary and tertiary needs of the civil servants, such as schools with good accreditation and international standards, lifestyle malls, international hospitals, massive public transportation that covers all areas of the city, modern residential blocks, recreation areas, city parks, places of worship, and so on with the hope that they will feel at home. and one more thing, the city will not be in the middle of a forest, but a city based on forests and nature. after all, by driving 20 minutes, the capital city is already surrounded by the two most developed big cities on the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, the cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda that will be the satellites cities in the metropolitan area of the capital. There is no reason for them not to feel comfortable anymore.

[@Tethloach1]

good point.

[@Your_Favorite]

it's Nusantara not New Santara, very different.

[@leadharsh0616]

honestly, naypyidaw was built by a publically unpopular govt who didnt make any arrangements to settle people. all others are known by the population, and being enough oppurtunities, they wont end up as naypyidaw

[@seltonk5136]

From my phone is not glamorous granny Goldie Hawn

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

Naypwidaw is beautiful city with traditional Burmese-Mon architecture, ornamentation and traditional roof style. most city today abandoned the traditional architecture. Indonesia and Malaysia have good architecture too but most of building in modern square glass and steel building. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan among that preserved the local culture and architecture.

[@-1081]

​@@safuwanfauzi5014 "Most city today" You really haven't been to Europe, haven't you? There are numerous cities with traditional architecture that are even thriving in the general sense (some which are even the nation's capital like Amsterdam, Moskow, Madrid, Lisbon, Stokholm, among others). But unlike those cities, Naypyidaw is just all looks. The planning is shite, the structure is meh, the services are dwindling, and yet you people still boast about this city for being "traditional." Having traditional architecture is shite if your standard of living is one of the lowest in ASEAN. I would rather live in a dull city with all the necessary services and good infrasturcture planning than in a beautiful traditional city in which the infrastructure layout is bad.

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

@@-1081 I have be in Poland, old city of warsaw with beautiful old architecture, polish style roof and roof tiles, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, England, Germany.

[@chloewebb5526]

A lot of these cities were founded so long ago that the environment and situation has changed drastically. Most cities started as small settlements made by average workers looking for a place to prosper an settle down. No one knew cities would ever hold tens of millions of people in some cases. I feel like having modern knowledge and using it to plan the site of a new city can prove to steer some of these nations in a better direction with a more stable and secure capital. However, modern knowledge does not mean "infallible". These people can still make grave mistake in the planning, placement, or execution of these giant projects. It's a very difficult thing, to account for every possible thing that could be a problem for the new burgeoning cities.

[@Linkwii64]

The idea is to encourage those with high skills level to move out from the ghetto. Than those people will pay the tax which grow the economy and encourage oversea investors to settle in for business. Overall grow their GDP.

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

the world is run on mistakes, forever

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Sejong will NOT be the new national capital of the ROK but rather an ADMINISTRATIVE capital like the one Egypt is building. Meaning the ROK will have two capitals. Also, it wasn't 2002 but 2003 as it was ROK president Roh Moo-hyun who became president in February 2003, who proposed moving the national capital. But because of backlash from his opposition as well as a court ruling that Seoul MUST remain the national capital under the constitution, the Roh administration was forced to modify the project to relocate the majority of government ministries and institutions to Sejong. And it would become a special self-governing city in 2012, and eventually an administrative capital. Sejong was named in honor of King Sejong the Great, the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty

[@tacomusical1404]

thanks for the clarification kimjong-un!!

[@draculaknight]

@@tacomusical1404 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 bro

[@TheLonelyMoon]

thanks kimmy for the detailed explanation, i see that you're going great depth to plan out your invasion

[@user-sl3ue9dl8n]

김정은씨 북에서 유투브 열심히 하시넹

[@draculaknight]

@@TheLonelyMoon 💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂

[@dlshn]

by far the really urgent one is indonesia new capital, nusantara. since their current capital is literally on the verge of destruction. and i think it is a good thing to move it on another island because java island is the most advance and populated island of indonesia, this will help other island to be more populated and get a better infrastructure too.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

When Krakatoa blows again, the number of lives lost will greatly overshadow what happened in 1883.

[@daveverhoeven2288]

@@d.e.b.b5788 dont you think he knows that ?

[@goldenboy6667]

funfact i bet someday nusantara will get a lot of destruction thanks to flood and you will find later

[@udaramalam7348]

I am Indonesian, and that idea was the stupid one, there were other cities in Borneo island, why not choose one and develop, instead of building anything from scratch

[@dougf9900]

Interesting to see governments building new cities far removed from the people they represent. This mirrors what we see in most science fiction/future movies: the government class lives in gleaming, clean cities, while the rest of the population lives in squalor.

[@hameley12]

Exactly. If they are going to build something semi-new with old-world charm it should be inspired by their own cultures and songs (of some sonnets they had/still have). The new city could be their new base for city and town dwellings. While the previous city could be turned into smaller villages and reconstructed bridges, buildings, etc. These villages can be for the people who have lived there for so long. Similar to what Ireland and Britain have, old towns turned into villages where people continue to live and work and bring in tourism. And sharing their family's passed-down special skills. I have seen Jakarta's and South India's baskets, blankets and clothing made by hand. I bought a bunch of baskets that I brought home. We also found some amazing blankets, and scarfs *beautifully handmade* Now that would be awesome! I will gladly go back and continue to support the artisans, and even learn their ways and have those skills shown on KZbin so more people know about them.

[@seankane8628]

I'll take the squalor

[@teentitans0789]

I mean that’s always been their goal. They don’t want anything to do with us just control and money

[@cane6074]

Just like Versailles in france, before the revolution, a conflagration is coming!

[@zachparker9711]

That is the entire real reason Egypt is building the NAC.

[@Vox_Curio]

Building new capital cities farther away from flood or tsunami issues seems to be a shared trait of these places, even the island capital is on an island that is protected by close "barrier" islands. Sounds like a possible plan vs the world wide tsunami disaster upcoming.

[@davidjacobs8558]

Seoul itself was a planned city. then newly formed Chosen Dynasty moved it's capital away from previous Goryo Dynasty's capital in year 1394.

[@creative-name5279]

If I were Korean, Sejong would be like a dream to me. I'd imagine Seoul is also very nice and probably has the kind of charm that keeps residents as loyal as they are. Naypyidaw looks interesting, but it'd probably be a nightmare to live in given the road structure and lack of non-government jobs.

[@clarkkent7973]

Brazil also moved their capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.

[@dresdi]

No one cares about Brazil

[@sergelondon916]

@@dresdi Yet, you commented?

[@satyampandey9813]

​@@dresdi I do.

[@aromanticfranziskavonkarma]

@@satyampandey9813 I do, too.

[@LeonardoMenezes03]

And some say that Brasilia went wrong because it was more successful than anticipated. The city was planned to have 500.000 people maximum. But the city already surpassed 3 million inhabitants.

[@S.E.C-R]

I think I would love to live in a brand new city where nobody has lived before. It might be more doable in smaller phases though, it might be easier to complete and attract people to move there faster.

[@twitertaker]

You are talking about the usual development of a city. Growing when needed because space runs out.

[@uncle.d.]

I would not love to live in a new, soulless built city, I prefer the organically grown old cities, eventhough one must make compromises

[@jamesrawlins735]

You often end with a chicken or the egg quandry. People want to move but wont until there are store and businesses to support - but businesses and stores won't move in till there are enough customers to support them.

[@LexlutherVII]

the smell of new things! and the low traffic! is lovely 🥰💗

[@LexlutherVII]

@@uncle.d. okay! Boomer!

[@serjeantpepper2986]

I would love to visit all of these places and revisit them every few years to see how they grow

[@daximil]

Curious about what the success rate will be on these cities, since most population centers are where they are for some geographical reason. And it's always easier for a large population center to exist when you have a port, and most of these projects lack ports.

[@ananyabasu3770]

Well said. I too am interested in Geography.❤

[@Demopans5990]

Egypt has a case of infrastructure project + smooth brain dictator, as does Myanmar

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

The idea of building a brand new city like this is sort of contrary to how every city ever was made. You essentially start with a seed sowed in its location by geography, and it grows over time until the geography yet again makes it hard to keep building. Either you hit an ocean or a mountain or whatever. Like, what business is going to open up there not knowing if they will have enough employees or customers to stay afloat? What would keep people there without any history or extended family in the area? It's like half-assed socialism

[@adriennebrailsford6291]

With all the worry for climate changes, the weather we have been experiencing and the strange natural phenomena, matched with a great change in technology and ability since the building of the original cities, perhaps the move inland, or to “strategic” locations may be possible, necessary, definitely advantageous to some folk, a better way to organize and control the people, a better way to protect assets and maybe over all efficient and less burdensome for the ecosystem. And matched to the conspiracies shown in my feed in regards to extraterrestrials, what lies in the center of the earth and the depths of the oceans… who knows

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

@@adriennebrailsford6291 But that would still be an organic growth of a city in a sense. The need to move inland creating the drive, all that's needed is some basic land surveys to determine a suitable location to start. If nobody ever moves to a city like this for 10, 20 years... especially since more than likely coastal towns will just slowly be destroyed over many years rather than all at once... the new city might fall into disrepair before anyone ever feels inclined to move there. Yes, absolutely the world will need to figure out what to do with the billion+ people who will eventually be displaced by global warming. But this... idk, doesn't seem like the best way to plan for it

[@hoomanAdnan]

Amazing content 🙌🏼🔥 ❤ From Chittagong Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@indigofuture]

Very interesting video! Keep it up!

[@MegaBuildsYT]

Thank you! 💛

[@CHMichael]

It's really hard to build a livable new city. Hope they learned from Dubai and all the other concrete bubbles. There is something about naturally grown neighborhoods.

[@KuariThunderclaw]

@@KrisVango Except here's the thing. 15 minute cities are a sensible idea. You're right, culture will always win out. But sometimes that cultural stubbornness to change is self-sabotaging. With proper support, they'd be superior to modern planning in every objective measure, but the subjective nature of humanity makes it not that simple.

[@luana.desousa6398]

Naypyitaw is for elite, in Brazil we built Brasilia and made the builders settle there for free, the houses they built were their extra payment. Now it is the 3rd most populous at 5 million people and it has better life quality than Sao Paulo or any other city.

[@isadoraroque8691]

I was born there! Agreed.

[@mtbfever8578]

Vcs estão Viajando no maionese amigas 😂 Brasilia tá cheia de Ladrão Q trabalho no Governo Brasilia the home of brazils Corruption 🤗

[@stanrix]

I was thinking how weird this is… Then I remembered Australia did the same thing 110 years ago.

[@sieteocho]

Washington DC was also one of these futuristic cities in 1800.

[@ChuckPalomo]

The concept of creating a new city first and then filling it with people is so weird to me. Like, you're so used to understanding cities as settlements that evolve and grow over time. Also, the fact that nowadays new cities are not founded, but are created from the conurbation of smaller towns or villages. The only modern exception to this rule I know of is Brasilia. Still, the whole thing seems so inhuman.

[@FalconX88]

The problem with grown cities is that they are super inefficient. Building a city from scratch can make it more efficient and more livable.

[@SaithMasu12]

@@FalconX88 its only inefficient if you fill it with inefficient people

[@FalconX88]

@@SaithMasu12 that's a stupid comment. It's inefficient because it's historically grown not designed, E.g. street layout

[@SaithMasu12]

@@FalconX88 You are talking nonsense. A city grows naturally and adds what it needs for its citizens. The only problem is when cities get filled unnaturally with people that dont work.

[@FalconX88]

@@SaithMasu12 dude. I live in a city where much of the street layout is based on needs 100+ years ago. It is most definitely not what is needed now so it's terribly inefficient...

[@Erik_Emer]

Sejong and Egypt's new capital can be summarized a such: the majority of city dwellers probably don't have the money, resources, or reason to move. Although, I'm very sure that Sejong is built purely for governmental reasons, so probably not so much for the common person.

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

Egypt's new capital is just plain elitist

[@torilan2672]

@@taffingtonboathouse5754It’s only built so that the dictator and his men can stay as far away from the commoners as possible.

[@Eosinophyllis]

a majority of people in South Korea in general don’t have the money or resources for much of anything in seoul, so I’d argue it’s a lose lose situation

[@shauncameron8390]

@@torilan2672 They remember what happened in 2011.

[@inuhundchien6041]

In Malaysia, we also made a new city, Putrajaya, for administration. I guess it's fine? Enough people to do everything, not enough for traffic jams.

[@koreacolin]

Seoul metropolitan area includes Gyeonggi province, not just Seoul. Seoul's population is 9 million, which is still high though..

[@Inspadave]

04:02 to 04:06 it shows the Tokyo Metro when talking about Sejong.

[@murphyhandy]

... and while not making any sense anyway ("workplace in Seoul" + "move to Sejong" = lol wtf?!)

[@ricktasker8248]

Well done. Thanks.

[@luxurynews_]

Great video!🔥

[@renatacantore3684]

I just hope that they are paying the construction workers a good salary & are treating them like humans.

[@realitytak7258]

Best content so far.

[@soumit3752]

Useful content

[@JustChillingNahhhhMean]

This video got me moist, in a good way!

[@BLESSEDTOBEABLESSING]

i would really love to visit these places. they look amazing.

[@jasondaveries9716]

Egypts new administrative capital seems like something out of dystopian science fiction

[@donovandelaney3171]

Yes I would move to Nusantara. But I wouldn't be living in a house. I would be living off grid in a Futuro House or an electric RV Trailer.

[@eddiethepothos2648]

We need a series of micro cities that are walkable and connected by high speed rails more than more mega cities

[@sabersz]

Yeah no thank you, that's what 15 minute cities are

[@starsshooter6539]

I lived in Brunei that was located in Borneo Island, where Nusantara will be created. That would mean it's 3,175.7 km or 70 hours away from Brunei to Nusantara. I'm not really sure how I feel about the new administrative capital of Indonesia since it's also my second home. Although, I know that Bruneians Investors are also interested in Nusantara.

[@bowonetpreneur894]

Are you scared?

[@Daniel_0778]

@@bowonetpreneur894why brunei even need to be scared? They live peacefully for all this time eventho sit between malaysia..

[@sarwarn2107]

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is not newly elected president of Egypt nor he represent the people. He forced himself to power after removing the first democratic president of the country named Morsi in 2014. He has been ruling the country with brut force since than under the protections of Israel and USA and killing anyone who undermine his rule.

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[@benardpatrick9482]

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[@michaeldelisieux5252]

Interesting to note : Myanmar ( Burma) is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, with a civil war going on for decades. Egypt ( a dictatorship) is completely and utterly broke. El Salvador ( a make beLIEve State), is also broke and the Bitcoin City is what it is: a big yuuuge joke. Indonesia is a case apart. Lots of possibilities of disintegration. It’s more diverse ( to be politically correct) than Russia. In short, a conglomerate of peoples and cultures and languages put together in a bag. What’s the common denominator? I let you answer by yourself. Edit: grammar issues.

[@Your_Favorite]

What disintegration? our country has always been like this even since the days of Majapahit era, as long as Europe and the West stay away from us, we will be fine.

[@michaeldelisieux5252]

@@Your_Favorite “our country” has NEVER worked as “one entity”. That’s the point of the argument presented.

[@Your_Favorite]

@@michaeldelisieux5252 That's because our country is still have a lot of native and a lot of ethnicity, I'm even pure Java without admixture, we're different then Europe a small country and one ethnicity or America where all the population is immigrants.

[@classiclife7204]

Not a single word about public transportation, except in Sejong, where there is evidently not enough, given the clearly visible American-style car-centric suburban plan. Promoting electric cars and calling your city "green" is not nearly enough, and it's not even green. Trains and buses and no far-flung suburbs are the way forward, but all that oil money that builds these cities disagrees.

[@anantpathak2899]

Fax

[@casbrowne9055]

It doesn't even deserve the name American style

[@marethmok5635]

Great new!

[@LeagueofJay137]

Interesting video

[@moonlitnightmare]

I think cities are meant to grow organically not planned from top down. Usually it starts with some economic activity or geographical feature...

[@dougriter2510]

Only 750,000 people? Not exactly what I'd call a ghost town.

[@mosswaxy]

compare to other 50.9 million ppl who has to live in poverty and to those 750,000 blood sucking fascists?

[@eggycarrot]

750 thousand might sound a lot but you see for the size of Naypyidaw it is very spread out. Lets compare it to a capital of similar population Naypyidaw , Washington, D.C which has around 712,816 for 177km^2 in comparsion Naypyidaw has around 750,000 for 7054 KM^2 if you calculate the desnsity of population , Naypyidaw has 106.3 people PER KM^2 but Washington has 4027 PER KM^2 thats a 3799% difference!

[@dannyazucena3376]

Mostly cronies and family.

[@P4Tri0t420]

Indonesia "We have a fully overcrowded City on a Coast inside a Jungle... LETS MOVE TO ANOTHER JUNGLE-COAST AND SLAY DOWN THOSE RAINFOREST YEAAAAH"

[@JoeNielsen44]

Very interesting 🤔

[@izuanijuhairi7840]

Waiting to see your video uploaded while sipping nescafe, very relaxing

[@MegaBuildsYT]

💛☕

[@drewh3224]

Will I like to live one of them? The answer is hell yea! Just like cycle of life and forces of market economy, these new capitals will be filled over time with new opportunities.

[@FalconX88]

I like the idea of building a city from scratch because it allows you to plan it in a way that makes sense today. I live in one of the most livable cities worldwide but there are so many annoying things because it's "historically grown" and improvements are prevented for various reasons like historic preservation.

[@SumanthLatestTech]

9:28 is picture of Hyderabad city ,Telangana state in India .. how can you show that flood picture in Jakarta .. the telugu language is shown clearly visible 😅

[@robinharwood5044]

Because honesty and climate change propaganda do not go together.

[@123dodo4]

It doesn't matter when the actual jakarta flood happens it still looks the same lol

[@SumanthLatestTech]

@@123dodo4 haha that small poor countrys population is just our one states population lol 😆🤭🤣🤣.. don't even know about Indian legacy and world class ancient history Indian has poor fellow 😂🤣

[@cokesquirrel]

I can't recall exactly how many years ago at least 10. I recall seeing articles and videos about all the ghost cities in china. When I moved there in 2017 I told a few people I wanted to go visit them. Apparently they are no longer empty, Weather people move there by choice or were forced to move there by the government I'm not sure. But I'm sure super later these cities will fill up

[@nicyt7391]

7:55 when you want the ‘temporary’ skyscraper option

[@reyguarinnjbchannel5850]

Thanks

[@simonfea2]

That Egyptian oblisk tower is pretty cool.

[@rekkt5980]

There are ''smart city'' and no one want to life in a Prison ...

[@Alexco7999]

When you pre-build huge infrastructures in Cities Skylines and have to wait for the population to fill the areas

[@RivoKuhu]

Woooowww... 😮😮

[@natalassblaster]

I think mega cities are just the cool thing to do atm, kind of like keeping up with the jones on a stupidly massive level

[@diogo082]

I think the title better suit as '' Why these Megacities are Still ALMOST Empty ".

[@gplorsan]

Egypt's administrative capital hasn't even opened yet. But all the units were sold

[@gabe9346]

​@Gplor San units all get sold as investments. Very few will actually move in.

[@florentinusastro5735]

jadi inget ibukota nusantara, Indonesia

[@diegomendez5646]

That might be a good solution for a populated city when traffic has become one of the biggest problems. In my country, it would be a good idea to solve the transportation issue as well as pollution. Although the big deal here will be the corruption and disorganization that such a colossal project probably would be impossible to finish.

[@kimmmmm871]

sejong is pretty nice, i think what people mean by transportation means its 3 hours away from Seoul 😂😂😂 actually transportation im sejong is pretty good, with almost no traffic. bigger problem seems to be high price. everything is expensive in sejong. mainly due to high rent making new stores hard to survive.

[@pmw84]

Great video as always! Please do a video about the developments in Kuwait. They have an amazing vision like Qatar and KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

[@robertosborne7542]

Expect lots of fatalities of underpaid,overworked cheap labour-see the recent WC in Qatar.

[@dr.winstonsmith]

@@robertosborne7542 Almost all were Covid deaths.

[@hatac]

These cities will fill. People said the same things about Canberra in Australia in the 1930's and Brasilia in the 1970's. They fill over time and that's the intension. You covered the defensive aspect in Myanmar but the same thing applies for the others. Seoul is within range of North Korean artillery. Cairo and Jakarta have had 2 civil wars each and both are hot beds of hardline islamist activity. The other locations are neutral and defendable. Even the line in Saudi Arabia meet the same criteria. Its along way from their enemies, its religiously neutral, its uncrowded, it fosters the idea of modernity and innovation. In all cases history and heritage does not block growth. Ever tried to run optic fiber though 14 hundred year old walls?

[@chaotiongsai]

Hilarious. Canberra is still relatively empty by world standard. The worst thing is nobody knows about it. It’s simply unknown. Compare that to Washington DC. World famous capital.

[@hatac]

@@chaotiongsai We call it the bush capital. It full in the sense that rents are unaffordable and public transport stops at the ACT border. We have land but we are not allowed to build on it and the abundance of land just over the dotted line is hard to reach with the public transport problem.

[@chriswhite3692]

0:58 My daily commute to work is just like this. I HATE bumper-to-bumper traffic like this.

[@NO1jkpg]

I love this mega project around their world.

[@Kronosbattlemaps]

Lets be real. The real reason they want everyone to move to Sejong is that Seoul is well in range of ballistic missiles from North Korea.

[@kavink3x]

12:09 can someone from Indonesia give me a context here regarding the map. Does your map always include Brunei, Sabah and Sarawak too?

[@asantaraliner]

Yes, although borderline is usually drawn on maps.

[@kavink3x]

@@asantaraliner I see. Thanks bud.

[@msakbar12345]

the context here, both brunei and sabah sarawak will join indonesia in the future 😉

[@kavink3x]

@@msakbar12345 In your dream man

[@LinLin-kl5ei]

@@msakbar12345 Hahhah sabah dan sarawak lebih makmur berbanding kalimantan, riau,Papua lah ada hati nak minta gabung

[@user-um7tw6kx4r6]

Sejong seems like a good idea that will work out in the next 10 years

[@caryandrae9952]

It is similar when malaysia moved govt administration to putrajaya and built that new city. It takes a long time to build population but it is getting there.

[@adhisarakridowasono1019]

Indonesia is not entirely move Jakarta but only the capital. So it won't affect the economy. Jakarta still become the hub for the Indonesian economy. Just like Wahington and New York.

[@indomie.seedap]

Brah the video never mentioning about economy problem... So no one cares about ur statement here

[@adhisarakridowasono1019]

@@indomie.seedap then you didn't watch it entirely, anyway, you care about my comment... 😂

[@jittapootowasakun1960]

i care more about the rainforest's ecosystem and oranutan in Kalimantan than the economy.

[@adhisarakridowasono1019]

@@jittapootowasakun1960 no worry, the project is build on industrial forest and located far from the rainforest.

[@harnikovna]

The comments here seem randomly agressive while you are promoting/defending the change and that's fun as hell, looks like you are the one building the new capital

[@aRVeesBlog]

Very interesting video on these megacities

[@namjupark2663]

Specifically the area around Seoul which includes Gyeongis popoulation is around 26million and Seoul itself is around 9.42 millon

[@PrimericanIdol]

The US should change its capital to be somewhere in the middle of Kansas.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Wichita?

[@Immortal_BP]

that skyscraper they are planning to build in egypt looks really cool, like a modern take on the pyramids.

[@jameskeith7608]

The top floor swaying noticeably until eventually breaks due to unforeseen high winds

[@k-studio8112]

More like Obelisk for pharaoh

[@hausoflaboratories]

But kinda sad because the people can't decide what name city will be 😢

[@otaviosouza9386]

You added pictures from Brasília, the capital of Brazil in the Sejong part

[@spoonetata]

4'11'': That bridge is in Brasilia, Brazil

[@fabiorodrigues8465]

the idea is not new, USA, brazil did the change almost a century ago. I think it helps a lot on both the administrative and economic side to separate government area to industrial area, I mean by bean in different cities.

[@gplorsan]

Yes. Egypt is planning to do this too as the government is making an industrial capital in Sini, a Touristy capital near the Pyramids and an Agricultural one around the Great Artificial River

[@antonlavrentiev5249]

The last capital of Western Roman Empire was not Rome, but Ravenna

[@lucaosswald1752]

Bitcoin City always gets me. It reminds me of how roided up this century truly is.

[@LLN_Roscoe]

These videos are like the NCAA of cities. "I've been watching Nusantara since the foundation years."

[@Dostoron]

i am surprised egypt is putting up with that, they had a ruler like that way back in the day too, akhenaten. just compare the notes between them, it's uncanny.

[@philipmurphy2]

This is like if the UK decides to move the capital city from London to a new area because London is no longer big enough.

[@_jpg]

Not really...Myanmar's was moved because the Military dictatorship had too much money and was in fear to get overthrown easily in population centers (now more than ever, after they overthrew the kinda democratically elected government in 2021); South Korea moved because Sejong is more central and therefore easier to access, while the real estate prices were planned to be lower, which they currently are. In Egypt...probably the same as in Myanmar I would guess, at the same time following a trend on the Arabian peninsula with crazy prestige projects. And Nusantra mostly happened because of the rising sealevel.

[@philipmurphy2]

@@_jpg Through the only issue with London when one thinks about is that it's at the mercy of the Thames, The Barrier can only defend for so long.

[@ballom29]

@@_jpg Sejong ironically like Myanmar had a military advantage : it's further away from north Korea. In case of a war declaration from NK (or ww3 finally come) Seoul will be immediatly in range Seoul used to be the center of Korea...but south korea? not so much.

[@donaldcarey114]

@@_jpg Jakarta is sinking, sea level changes are not the real reason.

[@_jpg]

@@donaldcarey114 Well, it's definitely accelerating the issue, isn't it?

[@AnthonyAdrianAcker]

I would love to live in a low density city like these. I loved Portland under lockdowns.

[@khanhduytran3129]

Theres something like a megacity built near my place and it failed because they focus on soo much futuristic stuff that they forgot about the basic like school, market, basic service like car repair, church/temple, street food and places that offer job combine with the price of living there is higher for no reason.

[@ReptilianAnusWizzard]

As sombody living in West europe, this looks like heaven, i doubt you would have to pay 1/4 of your salary for a tiny 20² apartment.

[@derekaskaridupont]

wonderful for real!!!!!!!!!

[@transit-future]

Now it's not anymore just a Tower of Babel, now it's cities of Babel. Well we will see.

[@andybilakshow260]

The problem building these cities in advance is they'll be outdated by the time they're occupied.

[@DannyMancheno]

That’s why i usually wait for the S generation. Living in nyc, it’s so outdated, why does anybody live here 👀, it’s such a problem

[@andybilakshow260]

@@DannyMancheno Big money knows no intelligence..🤣

[@_jpg]

Some of them are already occupied though ^^

[@andybilakshow260]

@@_jpg So those "occupants" will be outdated too🤣

[@_jpg]

@@andybilakshow260 Not if they make new ones o.o Although I hope that will only be the case in Korea and Indonesia, the other cities' goals don't seem very inviting...

[@rick5078]

0:28 the answer to that first question is very very simple and straightforward. to artificially raise their GDP.

[@hyorke7917]

2023년 기준 세종시는 살기 좋은 동네지 고속철도 역이 조금 떨어졌다고해도 쾌적하고 도시 바로 근처에 큰 도시도 많고… 서울도 가기 편하고(세종에서 서울까지 버스로 2시간이면 족히 가니까)… 근데 제일 문제는 집 값이 서울급이니 (물론 강북 정도지만) 그돈이면 서울에 살거나 서울 근교에서 살지.

[@geckoo9190]

I live near Mexico City, today I don't even want to go out because of the pollution, of course I would move to those cities.

[@imperiumgrim4717]

True

[@yusuffabriziobosco9841]

“The new elected president, Abdel Fattah El Sisi”… Ehm

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

Yes and we will elect him again in 2024

[@yusuffabriziobosco9841]

@@user-or1rm1ol3q well the problem is that he didn’t come in power through elections, but with a coup

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

@@yusuffabriziobosco9841 no through elections. In 2014. The revolution against Muslims brotherhood in 2013 and. The elections was in 2014 and he resigned from the military before the elections. So he is a civilian

[@nicoletambasco9210]

Brand new beautiful city ? Who wouldn’t want to give it a shot?

[@jmstransit]

4:06 can't fool the subway folks by showing the Ginza Line in Tokyo

[@danielhanawalt4998]

I grew up till my mid teens in the country. I lived in cities for many years. Back in the country now and have no desire to live in a city. I've heard some about the new mega cities being built and I wonder about one reason for them. Control. People are easier to control when population is concentrated. There are other reasons I'm sure, but control I think is one and maybe the main reason.

[@superiortroy2929]

Being in rural areas is for lonely people it's to isolated there's nothing to do

[@danielhanawalt4998]

@@superiortroy2929 Maybe true for some. For others not so much. One is never lonely as long as there are birds and animals. Plenty of those in rural areas. And growing a garden keeps one busy in warm months and surviving the cold months will keep one busy. It is nice to have a social life of course. That can also be found in rural ares. You might be thinking of rural is the far away places where hardly anyone else lives. Some make a life in those places too. I'm one who is comfortable with people as well as myself. I wouldn't care much for being completely isolated.