Forget the pyramids, Tahrir Square and the Nile. Egypt is ready to ditch Cairo and build a shiny new capital if the government has its way.

忘卻金字塔、解放廣場還有尼羅河了。埃及準備拋棄開羅，建造一個閃亮新首都，如果埃及政府這一想法能順利實施的話。

 Fed up with pollution, traffic gridlock, a packed population with soaring rents and creaking infrastructure, Egypt is teaming up with a developer in the United Arab Emirates to build a city in what could be one of the world's most ambitious infrastructure programs。

Construction is already under way. According to Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper, engineers have begun work on infrastructure including bridges and 210 kilometers of roads.

城市建設已經在進行中。據埃及《金字塔報》報導，工程師們已經開始建造橋樑和長210公里的公路等基礎設施。

The yet-to-be-named city will spread out over 150 square miles, or roughly the size of Denver, and could eventually be home to 7 million people, the developers and government announced Friday。

開發商和政府宣佈，這個尚未被命名的城市將占地150平方英里(388平方公里)，大概就是丹佛市(美國科羅拉多州最大的城市)的大小，大概能容納700萬名居民。

"The new towns produced housing that is unaffordable, unobtainable and inaccessible for the majority of Cairo's inhabitants," says Sims. "The new towns were built with a high modernist approach that did not allow the informal enterprises and activities that most Egyptians rely on."

“新城鎮建造的住房是大多數開羅居民買不起、買不到也無法理解的。新城鎮根據高度現代化的方式建造，禁止了大多數埃及人依靠的非正規企業和活動。”

“公共服務匱乏的程度令人震驚。政府應為保障人們獲得公共服務和公共設施的公平權利而投資。讓我們先思考如何為現有城市開發更好的治理結構，然後再建設新城市。”