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28 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD MAY <strong>2015</strong> perspectivenews These proposed cities aim to relieve congestion, control urban sprawl, and generate investment. But this wave of Middle Eastern cities comes at a time when major historic centers in Syria and Iraq have been seriously damaged by war, wide-scale human displacement is taking place, and mass protests have erupted against dictatorships across the region and been silenced by authorities. In Egypt, plans for a new administrative district have circulated before, most notably as new ones on a tabula rasa. Since the 1970s, there has been a policy of building desert housing developments to absorb population growth, but these efforts, in spite of huge expenditures, have largely failed because of poor planning, management, and lack of efficient transport. The Capital Cairo also has the potential to become the world’s first privatized capital city. While the Egyptian government, with various ministries including the Housing Ministry, is providing legal and logistical support for the “has nothing to do with the project” and that another company, Capital City Partners Limited (for which Alabbar is also a founding partner), is the primary developer of the new capital. There are also conflicting reports about the expected date of completing the proposed capital city. While the initial announcement promised that the city would be partially completed in seven years, the Egyptian minister of housing announced that the full realization of the city—and housing for the The new capital will be located less than 75 miles away from present-day Cairo on a swath of military-controlled desert. Other Egyptian efforts to build satellite cities, including New Cairo and 6th of October City, have largely failed. part of the Cairo 2<strong>05</strong>0 vision, a plan proposed in 2007 calling for the redistribution of the city’s population and the demolition of areas with unsafe buildings. However, there was no public knowledge or discussion regarding the recently announced new capital city prior to the plan’s unveiling. Not surprisingly, reception of the project is marred by controversy. Arguments against the proposal contend that the Egyptian constitution, ratified in January 2014, clearly defines Cairo as the capital city of Egypt, and that planning and announcing a new capital city in the absence of a parliament and without public dialogue is a clear violation of the rule of law. Others argue that the government is simply escaping its responsibilities, allowing existing cities to continue to deteriorate and building project, the Egyptian military controls the desert land where the project is to be realized. A 1997 presidential decree gave the military control over undeveloped land, with little to no oversight from civilian institutions. Since then, the military has made several deals with private companies to develop exclusive communities for maximum profit. President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi clarified in a statement that The Capital Cairo will not be built with public funds, clearing the way for the possibility of private capital to take over entirely. In the case of The Capital Cairo, the private developer is a company in the United Arab Emirates. According to a spokesperson from SOM, the client is Eagle Hills, an Abu Dhabi– based company with Mohamed Alabbar (who, with his company Emaar, also developed the Burj Khalifa) on its board. A representative from Eagle Hills, Amira El Zoheary, however, told record in an e-mail that the company projected 7 million people—might take as long as 40 years. The feasibility of the project seems uncertain, given greater Cairo’s demographic realities—a population of 18 million set to double by the time the capital is completed. More important, it is unclear if the SOMplanned city will provide low-cost housing to the majority who need it. Egypt’s government has signed a deal with Arabtec, another UAE company, to build 1 million affordable housing units across 13 sites at a total cost of $40 billion. The relationship between these immense projects, if any, has not been clarified. When asked for comment on the project, a spokesperson from SOM wrote in an e-mail, “We are not pursuing interviews at this time, per our leadership’s request.” ■ Mohamed Elshahed is the founding editor of Cairobserver.com and a postdoctoral fellow at the Forum Transeregionale Studien in Berlin.
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