>>1887474>>1887485>>1887498Most countries that have in the past 50 years moved their capital to some *newly* built city are authoritarian, or at least politically unstable, shitholes.
Brasilia, Naypyidaw, Putrajaya (lmao), Astana, Gaborone, Islamabad etc.
They have some or all of these characteristics:
>Low density - double story housing or widely separated commieblocks.>Cul-de-sacs - pockets of housing are isolated with only one exit>wide highways/freeways slicing up the city into sections>no purpose built public transportation infrastructure (trams, light rail etc.), only buses>overall hostility towards utilitarian non-car travelThe cities are very deliberately and similarly planned. Not necessarily to piss off urbanites but sure as hell with political instability in mind. The design discourages protest assembly and eases crowd control with military/police vehicles by allowing them unhindered access no matter how big the crowd gets. Car-oriented infrastructure is just something that comes with it.
Commies do it too. Compare pre- vs post-soviet St. Petersburg districts and try to imagine where protestors would assemble more easily and where you would find it harder to disperse and prosecute them.
Density and intermodality are the enemies of authoritarianism.
