Desenvolvimentismo mais-que-tardio

The New York Times 08-10-2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/world/middleeast/egypt-new-administrative-capital.html
Sprawled across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, D.C., a showy new capital is rising in Egypt, imperial in scale and style, embodying the grandiose ambitions of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his mantle as the country’s unchallenged ruler.

The ministries area of Egypt’s new capital last month. Credit...Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/NYT via Shutterstock
Montagem: Àbeiradourbanismo

The new administrative capital just outside Cairo encompasses Africa’s tallest building, a crystal pyramid and a vast, disc-shaped palace for Mr. el-Sisi inspired by the symbols for an ancient Egyptian sun god. Six years in the making at an estimated cost of $59 billion, it is the grandest in a slew of megaprojects being built by a president determined to reshape Egypt.

Eight-lane highways swoop across the crumbling streets of Cairo, skirting ancient tombs and the pyramids of Giza. Giant bridges, freshly built, span the Nile. A new summer capital gleams on the Mediterranean coast, just outside the city of Alexandria. (..)

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