What stands out is the contrast with Tatu City. Konza shows how state-led megaprojects can stall under bureaucracy, while privately built cities sometimes move faster because investors demand progress. Its not just about tech or infrastructure, but also governance models. #newcities
Billions in Idle Tech Undermine Konza Smart City’s Ambitions
Konza Technopolis, is sitting on billions of shillings in idle technology equipment as major infrastructure projects drag on.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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China's megaprojects dazzle the world but its distributed energy generation is shattering records and teeing up a fundamental contradiction: the more its electricity production decentralizes, the more the control of its grid must be centralized.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I'm all for incremental development (I helped pass the most ambitious MMH program in the country!) but I gotta say, Mahron's quasi-fanatical devotion to localism is very odd. Yes, highway megaprojects are bad—but so is NIMBYism! Lionization of local control is exactly what created the housing crisis
September 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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trying to understand ea's offered owners got me back to reading about the saudi arabian megaprojects and god, it's just unbelievably fucked up. they will make a stupid Ozymandias city that doesn't exist and force you out of your home for it, and if you resist they shoot you in the head
September 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Simon Whistler, does a bunch of YouTube channels on a range of topics, used to host Toptenz until the creators fucked it up and he left. His yt channels include Megaprojects, into the shadows and the Casual Criminalist. He'd be a better presenter if he didn't laugh all the time.
September 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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#NewCities NEOM’s management pitfalls reflect wider pitfalls of state-led megaprojects. MBS recruited world-class planners with salaries too high to refuse. Doubt or resistance was discouraged, and design was driven by spectacle rather than practicality.
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Neom, Pt 2: The Emperor’s New Clothes
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September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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It's not because they randomly arrest foreign business travelers! It's because they're horrifically bad at project management, and buy things for prestige rather than utility. Everything I read about infrastructure megaprojects in the Gulf makes me think they're even worse than the US.
September 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The Venture Capital and Private Credit industry CANNOT afford the $250bn+ that OpenAI needs to fulfil their contract with Oracle, and at the current pace, *all* US venture capital will be exhausted in the next six quarters, if not faster.
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September 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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gotta say it reflects poorly on an engineering youtube series when they use a thumbnail which clearly demonstrates a total lack of understanding about how a bridge stands up
September 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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which makes the underbuilding of affordable housing a trigger for the preemption of local zoning for dense megaprojects, so there's just...not much for people to do policy-wise in housing except hope for NYC and increasingly Philly to fix their shit so we can stop absorbing all the demand growth
September 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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That’s why we owe it to our region to invent a Sound Transit future that’s affordable, reliable & boldly reimagined. Let's review the option of building a second downtown tunnel, explore creative ways to break up megaprojects into manageable portions & deliver service that works for riders.
Seattle isn't perfect, but it is one of the best places to live car-free and car-light in the U.S. We need to build on this momentum.
“In 2023, there were a record 74,100 carless households, representing 20% of all Seattle households. That’s up from 53,200, or 16% of households, in 2017.”
September 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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And then, there’s @cityobservatory.bsky.social’s Joe Cortright, somewhat in a league of his own on this issue. Unlike many of the conservative opponents of the bill, Cortright isn’t calling out ODOT for its allegedly “woke” overspending. But he does think the agency has major budget problems.
August 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Republican lawmakers and their constituents appear to be encouraging each other to come out strongly against the bill, mostly because of its proposed tax increases—but also because of a relatively new (for them) focus on ODOT’s alleged accountability issues.
August 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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ICYMI, the Ontario premier who is breaking laws and ignoring environmental and safety protections to build highway megaprojects and rip up bike lanes in the name of his war on congestion has ordered tens of thousands more people to get into their cars every day.
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Ontario ordering public servants back into office full time | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford’s government is ordering Ontario public servants to work from the office four days a week starting this fall and then full time in January.
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August 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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There’s so much discourse about megaprojects it sucks the air out of the room for everything else. I thought I’d list several smaller transit projects ideas in New Jersey, some of which come from NJT’s famously ambitious 2000 strategic plan (pictured) and some of which are mine or others’ ideas.
August 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Reforms on the table tomorrow:
- state-wide standards
- state certification of environmental review
- forcing utilities to promptly engage with projects
- formula funding over patchwork grants*
- state capacity for design, planning, engineering*
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- state-wide standards
- state certification of environmental review
- forcing utilities to promptly engage with projects
- formula funding over patchwork grants*
- state capacity for design, planning, engineering*
*Our additions
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August 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Newsflash bitch. I still write.
Or more precisely, I still OCCASIONALLY write.
With two megaprojects in the oven for over a year or two now, I think it's finally time to go public with them.
More infor here: www.furaffinity.net/journal/1120...
Newsflash bitch. I still write.
Or more precisely, I still OCCASIONALLY write.
With two megaprojects in the oven for over a year or two now, I think it's finally time to go public with them.
More infor here: www.furaffinity.net/journal/1120...
So contrary to popular belief... I never stopped writing. -- Rise the Drake's Journal
Ever since I joined the 3D medium I have started writing less and less, until at a certain point I just stopped opening up for writing c ...
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August 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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“We want to ensure that the province and our workforce is prepared to meet the demand that we’ll have once these projects come online,” says McCormick.
Federation of Labour Calling for Strategy to Help Meet Demand Sparked by Future Hydro Megaprojects https://vocm.com/2025/01/07/federation-of-labo…
Federation of Labour Calling for Strategy to Help Meet Demand Sparked by Future Hydro Megaprojects https://vocm.com/2025/01/07/federation-of-labo…
Federation of Labour Calling for Strategy to Help Meet Demand Sparked by Future Hydro Megaprojects
The Federation of Labour is calling on government to come up with a comprehensive strategy to meet future labo...
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January 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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nobody looked at these desert megaprojects seriously and didn't see a statue of Ozymandias
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SKAO – Square Kilometre Array Observatory: Recording The Universe Airwaves Super Telescopes As...
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February 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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MBS overhauled the PIF’s governance framework and concentrated an immense degree of control and oversight of the fund into his own hands, enabling him to unilaterally direct enormous sums of state wealth to megaprojects.
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The Northwest Seaport Alliance is here to really have some pointed concerns about the recissions to funds for ship-to-shore electrification and zero-emission freight demonstration.
Also SR 509 and SR 167 projects should have 'equitable treatment' to other megaprojects. Nice tie.
Also SR 509 and SR 167 projects should have 'equitable treatment' to other megaprojects. Nice tie.
March 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Also look into the project management lit on cost overruns on megaprojects eprhaps
November 16, 2023 at 1:26 PM
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New #article from Xue et al: Configurational Effects of Social Capital and Dynamic Capability on Project Resilience in Megaprojects
TL;DR: The findings verify the complementary effect of social capital and dynamic capabilities on project resilience
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TL;DR: The findings verify the complementary effect of social capital and dynamic capabilities on project resilience
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March 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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