Qatar Is Building A $45 Billion City From Scratch For The World Cup That It Might Lose

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Qatar Is Building A $45 Billion City From Scratch For The World Cup That It Might Lose
By TONY MANFRED

"People tend to forget that a city is like a tree," the real estate developer in charge of turning the desert north of Doha into a 450,000-person metropolis wrote in 2010. "Without a proper foundation underground, nothing above will flourish."
As of now, Qatar will host the World Cup in 2022. It will almost certainly take place in winter. The final will be held at the not-yet-built Lusail Iconic Stadium in the not-yet-built city of Lusail — a massive planned community set to be completed by 2020 at a cost of an estimated $45 billion.

The most recent Lusail City master plan calls for two golf courses, a theme park, a lagoon, and two marinas. There will be 19 different districts and 22 different hotels in the 38-square-mile city. Pneumatic tubes will transport trash to a central location for processing. Residents can live in waterfront villas or garden villas or towering skyscrapers. There will eventually enough housing to accomodate 450,000 people, the developer claims — nearly 200,000 more than the number of citizens in the country.

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1. Slavery gets shit done.

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2. There was a horrifying story on ESPN's E:60 newsmag about this

a few months back. 90% of the work is being done by "guest workers" who live in what amounts to abject slavery.