The Indonesian government is involving three international consulting firms in developing the masterplan of the country’s new capital city, which is to be located in East Kalimantan.
[...] American engineering company AECOM, consulting firm McKinsey & Company and Japanese architectural and engineering firm Nikken Sekkei would design the city, which is to feature the latest technology and be environmentally friendly at the same time.
— The Jakarta Post
In August 2019, Indonesian President Joko Widodo had announced the selection of a 450,000-acre site in East Kalimantan province on Borneo Island where the nation's new capital would be relocated to.
Jakarta, the current capital on Java Island, is traffic-choked, increasingly prone to floods, and some areas of the metropolitan area with a population of more than 30 million have been sinking as much as 10 inches a year, caused by the digging of underground aquifers and amplified by rising levels.
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I’ve found that fabricated experiences don’t improve human life. Piece-meal cities, like Rome, enrich quality of place.
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