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> relieve pressure from Cairo. * relieve pressure for the elites in Cairo

• mc32 6y ago
  They expect to have six million people on the new city. If six million are elite, then they have a pretty good ratio of elite to commoner in Cairo. Anyhow, lowering Cairo’s pop by six million should make it more livable traffic and smog wise.
  • fakedang 6y ago
    You're going to believe the numbers of what is essentially a vanity project?
  • Ericson2314 6y ago
    Lowering population is not how cities become better. Building more floors and more public transit is.
    • mc32 6y ago
      Not if it's overcrowded and unhealthy. Cities improve by obviating slums/shanties and overdensity and by modernizing.
      • Ericson2314 6y ago
        "overdensity" as people per land area or per floor area? Because I pretty firmly believe the former doesn't exist.
  • pasttense01 6y ago
    The Cairo area was previously projected to grow another 6 million people in the next 12 years. https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22812/cairo/population https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22812/cairo/population It will take longer than 12 years for this new city to reach 6 million people. So what will happen is the population growth will slow some in Cairo; there will be NO population decline there.