Building anew, from former strategic geographical locations, is foolhardy. Let us take the case of the big metropolis like London, New York, and Paris globally, but more west.
All commercial, as well as capital cities, built on the banks of, major rivers deltas to great former shipping advantage of ports.
I have nothing, against new federal constructions. In case of Jakarta, which is sinking, but don't know about others, for a reason. Maybe, some are constructed, because of new found riches of oil, gold to tech, etc. But for Kolkata, which was abandoned for a more central location of Delhi, by British colonials.
New Delhi, which is a disaster in the making in terms of logistics. Spread over several neighbouring states, besides its own territory of old Delhi, into Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, etc. Call National Capital Region (NCR).
Let us hope, Geo Geoff, some modern wisdom prevails.
Washington DC was itself an artificial capital city and probably took at least a century to begin to really come into its own - and even at that it lost possibly a fifth of its original territory when the state of Virginia’s contribution was returned to the state in the 1840s (as the city’s population of freed former slaves was gaining economic and political ground.
Even an older capital like Canberra has that vibe (but it only exists due to a dispute between Melbourne and Sydney for the capital, so they put it in the middle of them)
Building anew, from former strategic geographical locations, is foolhardy. Let us take the case of the big metropolis like London, New York, and Paris globally, but more west.
All commercial, as well as capital cities, built on the banks of, major rivers deltas to great former shipping advantage of ports.
I have nothing, against new federal constructions. In case of Jakarta, which is sinking, but don't know about others, for a reason. Maybe, some are constructed, because of new found riches of oil, gold to tech, etc. But for Kolkata, which was abandoned for a more central location of Delhi, by British colonials.
New Delhi, which is a disaster in the making in terms of logistics. Spread over several neighbouring states, besides its own territory of old Delhi, into Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, etc. Call National Capital Region (NCR).
Let us hope, Geo Geoff, some modern wisdom prevails.
Canberra is not mentioned here but Canberra deserves F
Washington DC was itself an artificial capital city and probably took at least a century to begin to really come into its own - and even at that it lost possibly a fifth of its original territory when the state of Virginia’s contribution was returned to the state in the 1840s (as the city’s population of freed former slaves was gaining economic and political ground.
Even an older capital like Canberra has that vibe (but it only exists due to a dispute between Melbourne and Sydney for the capital, so they put it in the middle of them)