Some suspect the new city is largely meant to benefit Jordan’s powerful and their business cronies. Today, Amman is home to more than 40 percent of Jordan’s population of 9.5 million. He plans to rule from the new city by 2019, leaving behind unruly Cairo, the Arab world’s largest city. The city is meant to ease overcrowding in Amman and Zarqa, a working-class city of 1.3 million. Critics also predict it will sap any development in Amman and Jordan’s other cities, chaotic and decidedly not high-tech and gleaming.

Source: Egypt Independent December 08, 2017 06:11 UTC