Turkmenistan's $5BN Mega Ghost City

A titanic project is nearing completion. A city designed to be futuristic and modern has risen from the ground in Central Asia. In Turkmenistan, billions of dollars have been spent on the construction of Arkadag, the city of the future. In this new episode of Looking 4, I invite you to discover this mega ghost city 2.0.

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Text: Guillaume Fournier/Looking 4

00:00 Arkadag: a ghost town 2.0
00:32 Town inauguration
01:10 Arkadag presentation
02:37 A smart city at the cutting edge of technology
04:43 Turkmenistan and the environment
05:29 The origins of the Arkadag project
06:33 Arkadag city objectives
07:16 Guinness Book of Records in Turkmenistan
07:52 A real ghost town
09:01 Asman City in Kyrgyzstan
09:32 New Tashkent project in Uzbekistan

#construction #architecture #turkmenistan

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[Ricko]

as an introvert I prefer cities like this. away from engine noise and pollution. at one with nature but easily fulfills life's needs.

[MaikTiison]

its like someone played citybuilder game in real life.

[elmundo]

5 billion is such a reasonable price given what the cost of some new mega-towers in New York are costing.

[sriramcan]

first a railway and bus station needs to be built connecting the place to the city centre. Most of the projects across the world do this Mistake. Here in London where I live they build station along with the construction of residential townships as this gives one level of confidence in buying the properties.

[Desumilde]

It would be better to use this money to improve cities that already exist, such as sanitation and transport infrastructure, but governments never make the best decision when it comes to using taxes.

[tugudd]

I am from Turkmenistan, and not surprized that people far from understanding any non-western country claim it to be a ghost city. For many years, many bloggers have been calling our capital a ghost city, though more than 1 million people live there. They just film everything in the daytime when no one wants to be outside, especially when temperatures can reach 50 Celsius. Also, the city is relatively well designed and more modest compared to projects like Neom. A lot of people already moving to the city mostly because of subsidized mortgages, despite it being quite far from the capital and any other city.

[Jin]

Although I'm not a fan of copy-paste architecture and lo density development, I think it's too early to call it a ghost city, since it's just been completed and people haven't moved in yet.
I'm sure CNN will call it a Chinese debt trap or a huge waste of money but let's see how it looks in 20 years.

[ricopunojr.]

They put sidewalks, but who would walk in such an unwalkable city like that?

[coyotelong]

The amount of vanity projects this country builds for its ruling family while the people go hungry is crazy

[hdaviator]

If this where really futuristic, it would have a complex rail network like Tokyo, not wide roads like this.

[kazimkorkmaz]

How neat and clean everything is in this country.

[Ok....-]

Wow ..great city love to visit Turkmenistan one day ...Ameen

[abdallayoussef]

Please make a video on Egypt’s new Administrative capital

[francisthegreat]

The city looks gorgeous. If only the government allow its citizens to stroll around it.

[gilbertfranklin]

"If you build it, they will come..." A lot of people must have seen that movie. But they should also ask; "Can they afford it?"
So many countries are overbuilding infrastructure without considering recovering the cost of the investment, or the logistics of moving the mass of people needed to fill the area and make it prosperous. Sad, indeed. 🤥

[moosefactory]

5 billion doesn't sound like nearly enough to do all this. I hope it works out for the people living there.

[citizenoftrone]

This looks like my city in any strategic game when I was 12

[sayedmustafa]

The new administrative capital in Egypt will be like this, but with a large scale.

[mindspaceinvader]

Wow so good🎉 many Chinese construction workers thank you so much 🙏

[THEYUNOORGAMING]

India's only one Bridge cost 6.7 billion😅🤣