01-05-2024, 06:44 PM
(01-04-2024, 04:02 PM)ac3r Wrote: The issue with cities like these is that they often fail to work. Not always - there are great examples of planned cities like Kyoto or Brasília - but there are so many examples of failed ones. Or they seem okay on the surface...you see people, buildings, infrastructure etc...but once you get into the nitty gritty of these places, they're awful.
Kyoto is a bit different from the others (Canberra, Brasilia, Sejong City, Nusantara, Astana, Egypt NAC etc) in that it was not a move of a capital city to a remote location, it was a redesign of an existing city. In some ways, the implementation Kyoto's plan was like the Paris urban plan, only a thousand years earlier.
The actual new capital cities (see above) have all struggled to various extents, it's definitely not easy to succeed with such a project, even if you control the government without any real opposition.