Turkmenistan's $5BN Mega Ghost City
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- 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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5 billion is such a reasonable price given what the cost of some new mega-towers in New York are costing.
Mega towers, lol!! Nothing in the US even comes close to what China has.
Turkmenistan is poor thats why. For the most part
@@ishrendon6435it’s gas money but yeah. Turkmenistan is trynna do a Qatar when they should’ve instead done a Netherlands. Consequently what they now have is a few large and expensive cities that are empty. Kinda like Myanmar’s new capital.
New York’s mega project would generate equivalent or more profit than the cost it takes, contrary to Turkmenistan which is literally dumping money into waste despite country being poorer than State of Washington
Turkmenistan doesn’t have labor laws or unions
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.
Go and tell them ... Nobody cares about your opnion.
@@sihaanmand nobody on planet earth cares about Turkmenistan outside of its own people
Well you never make good decisions paying them
its like someone played citybuilder game in real life.
The amount of vanity projects this country builds for its ruling family while the people go hungry is crazy
On god. Except a few countries like NK that tries a few agricultural designs, i cant think of a poor country NOT trying mega projects
Who are you to judge?
@@sihaanm "Who are you to judge psychopathic dictators?" What a moronic question.
@@sihaanm
My apologies- Please explain to me the upside of building giant stupid marble monuments while the people live in poverty that I’m so ignorantly missing
At least they can build "Vanity" projects. In U.S you cannot properly build a project on time.
They put sidewalks, but who would walk in such an unwalkable city like that?
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.
Ikr , these creeps even refer chinese cities as "ghost cities" 🤡
@@Mr.China. After few decades they will refer Dhaka and Delhi also as a ghost Town. (If these two become developed and less populated)
nvm bud, its always foreigner opinion that as if they know everything. trust me, they never visit turkmenistan.
It's a beautiful city, it gives me inspiration.
Say whatever you want, it is within your right, as locals...
But the LARGER PICTURE IS.... throughout history, in all societies all over the world.... artificially built cities (where the Dear Great Leader waves his hand, benevolently, and structures started popping "very beautifully, the most beautiful," as Donald Trump would describe every thing he touches, including fake "Trump University" and money-losing Casinos, both shut down after some years, when more information came to light as to how idiotic such projects are, how badly run they were).... just don't thrive that well... especially, again, if such projects are undertaken by benevolent dictators.
It usually works well, if an organic, original town or city was there, with the benevolent dictators merely ENLARGING it.
But brand new, giant cities with "geniuses" working for dictators constructing everything new, to "amaze the people," etc... such projects, again, don't have a very good track record of self-sustainment, due to many serious issues... for example: ---- unpredicted ecological, corruption, dictatorial imposition from the top by the rulers, bad or inefficient municipality infrastructures (electricity, sewage, school & civil institutions, roads, transportation hubs not connecting well with tried & true cities elsewhere, etc).
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.
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.
If this where really futuristic, it would have a complex rail network like Tokyo, not wide roads like this.
I don't know why they can never understand that. Probably because they don't take public transit, but if they see a big grand highway every time they travel in their limo it makes them feel more accomplished.
That's what you get with what amounts to a vanity project not exactly built with people in mind.
as an introvert I prefer cities like this. away from engine noise and pollution. at one with nature but easily fulfills life's needs.
There is nothing futuristic here. Car-centric low density vanity project is a city concept from the past.
Sounds better than packing people in like sardines and keeping them from traveling outside of the city
Please make a video on Egypt’s new Administrative capital
It's funny because I will upload it next saturday :)
@@Looking4En woow 😊
Yeah
That city actually costed 60b dollars of new debt
@@YassuYasenI can't believe that city cost 10 times more than this city, even though it doesn't even look much better than this city in comparison.
5 billion doesn't sound like nearly enough to do all this. I hope it works out for the people living there.
I agree, they just approved a 65$ billion dollars for Ukraine to fight Putin's government?
This looks like my city in any strategic game when I was 12
The new administrative capital in Egypt will be like this, but with a large scale.
Wow so good🎉 many Chinese construction workers thank you so much 🙏
Tofu construction!🙂
sick
"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. 🤥
It's because these are vanity projects, motivated by the egos of dictators, not by practical realities.
Turkmenistan is our North Korea in Central Asia😂
Wow ..great city .....i love to visit Turkmenistan one day ...Ameen
Largest Star Shaped Building in the world: ✅
Food for citizens: 🤔
5 billion is a bargain for an entire city
Where are the people????
Maintenance of this inorganic monstrosity will bankrupt the city.
Anyone wants to bet?
They should let King remake the Langoliers here….would be worth the laugh at all the wasted money btw
With other places like this in Asia, it makes one wonder if they're expecting habitation at some point after a large scale world "event".
Yeah right because they have premonition powers and the rest of the world do not 😂😂😂😂
Not premonition, planning.
Impressive mega city!
Usually the cities development follows the people , here its ready , not many r willing , not many r able .
Pls make Baku❤
India's only one Bridge cost 6.7 billion😅🤣
کشور هندوستان که خیلی بدتر از ترکمنستان است. مردمانی بسیار بی فرهنگ جاهل ونادان هستند و در خرافه پرستی در دنیا لنگه ندارند. 👌👍👋گاو را میگویند خدا!!!؟؟🐃🐃🐃😂😂😂
Because it has that much material used in it :)
Really? What name of this bridge? Can u tell more about this?
My friend, a bridge can be built for 1 million dollars or 100 million dollars.
Nice, they use the Soviets as inspiration.
The city looks gorgeous. If only the government allow its citizens to stroll around it.
Arkadagh is next to Iranian border, a country with 90 million inhabitants and one of the fastest growing economy and biggest startup ecosystem in west Asia. The Iranian city of Mashhad with almost similar population as country of Turkmenistan is right next to arkadagh. Possibly they need to invite Iranian investors to come into the play, and startups to settle in there.
New cities often neglects the lower class people. You see in a conventional city there is room for people of every class be it slum or lavish mansions. Every city needs some unregulated areas and it needs some place for lower class people because at the end of the day they are the ones that provide labour and much needed cashflow in the city economy. Thats my take on the situation. You are free to give your own opinion and correct me if i am wrong
Yaşasın Türkiye Cumhuriyetleri hep beraber Çok Güçlüyüz☝️🤲💪🇹🇷💯🇹🇷
Sasha Cohen (a.k.a. Borat) would like to visit this place in the middle of the desert.
if you build it they will come
Honestly, just having a quick look at the satellite photos is more than enough to dispel the vast majority of claims that are being made about this city. Many of the most important governmental buildings are quite literally built in front of a highway. Quite a few of the parks and monuments seem to be way out there, cut off from the rest of the city. Theses are spaces that are meant to be looked at from a distance and never interacted with. It does not get much worse than that in terms of design.
“No one wants to be outside, especially when temperature can reach 50 Celsius”… Man, it matches the definition of a ghost town.
At the same time, at 50 degree people can still enjoy Arabian coffee on the streets of Doha. The economy and city planning just have to catch up.
City of the future looking mighty similar to a Soviet bloc-style city from the 1900s. I do agree with the sentiment though that it may end up being a populated city once more time has passed. Time will tell though.
LOL sounds like infomercial
Utopia!
there's no public transport like bus's may by but there's no trams/light rail.
Sorry, I have to make this joke:
Is "futuristic" in the room with us?
Beautiful City
Its good send all refugees from Syria Palestinians Pakistani Iraqi Somali Sudanese
Yallah to saudi arabia, not Turkmenistan.
Onların aid olduğu yer Ortadoğu coğrafyası, Orta Asya Türk Cumhuriyetleri değil...
Cehaletinizi bize bulaştırmayın...
Percentage of residents using the Internet in Turkmenistan 19,3% for comparison in Bangladesh this value is 76%
I am sure 75 percent Bangladeshis don't use Internet on regular basis.
It maybe around 40 percent.
@@abhimanyunath2001 Data from Wikipedia
Bcz strict sencership
Percentage using internet is 50% but most parts of the country is covered with the Internet. Plus, landlocked countries have it harder when it comes to network integration with the globe.
@@tugudd There are much poorer countries with worse geography and a much higher percentage of inhabitants having access to and using the Internet, such as Bangladesh, which I gave as an example. In the case of Turmenistan, you also need to take into account Internet censorship, even if you have access to it, there are not many websites on it, such as RUclips, Facebook and many others, other legally available ones are also controlled by government censorship, just like in China.
It's not a ghost city, over 1 million people live there.
Also Turkmenistan has an extreme weather, most of these videos were filmed during peak hours of the day when nobody is outside because temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius.
So no, this city is not a ghost town.
Still badly designed city if u know that shortcomings but still build it the way it is with large streets etc. Good citis are alive and support economic activities
People will come gradually
Big budget, big dreams, big buildings = pollution. Tons and tons of diesel was used in the construction of these.
Tons of C02 is produced just creating concrete to build this city so it is starting off FAR from being green.
Not to mention, truck loads of silicon to adhere all the tons of fancy glass to inefficient star-shaped designs.
WOW...White...just like my neighbors, just like my neighbors, just like my neighbors, just like my neighbors...
City looks great.
must be joking
it's amazing they built such a beautiful city of at least 1 million population with only $1 billion!
beautiful .. its horrorfull. wide big street , no bike or puplic traffic , all same housestyp , so mush space between houses that you need cars and can´t walking.
Dystopian is more like it. It’s horrible.
Did China developers builds this ghost city too??? I know there is one in Johor Malaysia oo!
The Chinese must certainly be involved in this.
People call it ghost city, I call it mega cemetery
The buildings dont look futuristic at all
At one with nature….squares of grass, with evenly planted trees.
we have more in common with each other ➡️central Asian countries
Afghanistan
Kazakhstan
Iran
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
And we should be proud to be united central Asian
🇦🇫 🇹🇯 🇹🇲 🇰🇬 🇺🇿 🇮🇷 🇰🇿 💪🏻🌟
The country is too poor to waste such money on a capital city. Thanks 😮
My gosh the soon dictator of Turkmenistan is so hot 😂
So cool Turkmenistan❤ I hope our new capital city, Nusantara City can be as beautiful as Ashkabad. Greetings from indonesia
Not bad! It is clear that there is development. But the level of Europe is still 80-100 years away
do they also worship the hawk?
Their garbage city looks like a soviet gulag - not a 21st century city.
The very first ghost city reported by the media is a district in Shanghai.
Today, that ‘ghost city’, Pudong is so vibrant, it will ranked within top thirty GDP in the world if it is a country.
Maybe. Still a soulless pile of glass and concrete
bro this is literally just a plain city
If it hasn’t been completed yet, how can it be a ghost town?
People in Turkmenistan are hungry and there is not enough bread. But for kitschy projects like this ghost town money is spent. Turkmenistan remains one of the most bizarre dictatorships, like North Korea.
i did not know Jimmy Carr was President of Turkmenistan.
Can i ask someone. Has anyone noticed alot of ghost cities are built with foreign investments. No one move there.
вы были в Туркменистане?
Ким Чен Ин отдыхает 😂
Better than any city here in USA
Ghost city
But kittle or no public transport , either train or bus in the city or leading to it , this will be a failure
САМЫЙ ЗАКРЫТЫЙ страны мира как северной керея
When will Turkmenistan allow foreigners to travel here
One day, travel is possible but residence is never. Turkmenistan does not need non-Turkic immigrants.
@@nadirhikmetkuleli7335 that’s stupid. Then how would the economy grow
@@r-labs9357 Turkmenistan economy will never grow, they are foolish!
@@r-labs9357Growth does not require invading foreign populations. Natural growth rates of Turkic lands are more than enough to sustain economic development in these countries. Effects of foreign migrants are well seen in Europe. Multiculturalism is not sustainable. So Keep away from Turkic lands, and go whereever you want, but never to Turkic lands. Got it? We Turkic people do not want aliens in our lands. We do not want you. You are unwanted and stop insisting. Stop it. Go away, Be away! Understood?! Turkic people are different from soft Europeans who are unable to do anything against invading foreigners, do not try your chance in Turkic lands, returning from there may turn out to be in a ugly way, even result in bloodshed. So do not even think about it, ever never! Clear? Should be.
Lunatics.
Poor people who live in this ghost city.
It’s hardly look futuristic. Not daring to imagine far enough; however, it looks great. I am sure it isn’t to be ghostly. This narrator makes it sound like it’s hopeless. I am sure they have plans to populate. Where are all the people then?
🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿❤️
This is forward planning at its best👌🤝
土库曼斯坦政府做的很好,在国家的收入持续增加时政府有必要做长期或跨越式规划,这是远见而且相当高效率的做法。在这种人居环境中生活本身就是一种幸福,收入再高也无法无法替代这种条件
希望有生之年能访问贵国
Didn’t know this was a country. Hmm. The more you know!
O'lik shaxar
Looks like a modern gulag.
It got me thinking, this city build for who?
The self appointed god. Bow down or get disappeared.
dictators' projects... see: dubai
Not dictator but rich people, sinners just like Jeffrey Epstein Island, las Vegas, ....
With zero taxes and much luxury, makes u wanna stay there.
is it me or are artificial mega cities the newest trend among countries with wealthy government officials and poor(er) populations
I think it's you
@@user-yn1qo4qm9q lol open your eyes
well, good big infestructure projects are good
turkmenistan is no different than NK. it is just NK has nukes, a popular dictator, and enemy of USA which gives NK more popularity.
Turkmenistan is not at war and probably wont be for the foreseeable future. It's also not quite nearly as brutal as the government in North Korea. Far worse places exists in the world, including North Korea.
I don't believe what the media tells me unless you go out and see it for yourself. There are too many stories about ghost towns, but what happened next?
Very beautiful and clean city .
Yes👍I have Aşhgabad city Bountiful👌❤🏢🏚🏛🕌🏩🏨🏯💒
Cars cars cars. Rich and dictators are always so stupid.
This city is anything but futuristic. It is a heinous disaster built for cars; no wonder it is a ghost town. Who would want to live in such filth? Lol, smh.
What is a horse circus. Also so you know nobody can afford to live there. Everyone in the country is disgustingly poor n the dictator does not want or claim them
Không có biển thì rất khó cho 1 quốc gia phát triển hùng cường
They don't have access to sea?
There is 100% guarantee it's built by China, Almost anything built by China in foreign have similar fate 😂😂
And What India ever built?!
1000 years from now ,people will be reviewing such cities
Пустой город для показа иностранцам
5Billion $ is such a reasonable price considering the fact that NEOM is to be build at cost of more than 500billion $
Why build something your own people can’t afford to live in?
I’ve nominated arkadag to Guinness for world’s most boring cityscape. Can’t lose. This city looks like every other new or capital city in Eurasian countries run by autocrats, and I include Dubai on that list. Dubai is shiny and new but also soulless and dull in the same way as Pyongyang. Arkadag is just another bland vanity project dreamed up by some petrostate emperor. Who in the world would prefer to walk around arkadag rather than Rome or Copenhagen?