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infrastructures, including the problematic, and difficult to asses, regional land use and
mobility impacts which the eco-modernists perspective tends to underplay.
In the end, it is not really possible for the international promoters of the M0 to
interpret land use changes around the ring road as unforeseeable side-effects, e.g. an
outgrowth of a dynamic local economy independent of international trends. Implicit in
such an interpretation would be the admission that it was impossible to accurately assess
all key costs and benefits of the planned infrastructure investments during the project
identification stage. This, however, would in turn constitute an ex-post invalidation of
whatever cost-benefit assessment was originally used to financially and economically
justify the project in the first place.