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A building boom is underway in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, and the country’s latest project is the most ambitious yet. Critics call it unrealistic.

 

There appears to be a new trend now happening in many Central Asian states where cities are built from nothing in the middle of nowhere with the hope that one day they will become major international economic hubs.  This ambition vision of urbanization is fraught with peril as there is not a great track record of success for these types of ventures.

 

The article also contains a video of what the new city of Lazika and its Special Economic Region (SER) will look like. The video was produced by an outfit called “Silk Road” which may have also produced a similar idealized video of the city of Beijing in time for the Olympics (Thanks for sharing Lily!). 

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