Beautiful Abuja - Africa's purpose built and model city

[CasaMor]

Originally Posted by Tbite

12 Screen Cinema, One of the Largest in Africa if not the Largest

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12 screens??? It's not the largest!

[Matthias Offodile]

Ceddi plaza is really very small and mediocre at best, it is not a shopping mall!

Nigeria can do better than that

as for the other shopping centre it is an architectural eye-sore from the outside, the design is shockingly clumsy...(sorry, everything else would be a lie for my critical mind). However, I will have to see the inside first before I pass my final judgement.

Abuja Zoo, Stadium and Millenium Park are good and truly organized and well-planned..

Tbite, you know what I mean when I am critical, you have been to Asia and you live in OZ...you know that Nigeria can and MUST do much much much better to play in that league where I want it to be. Being happy with what has been achieved so far would be fatal and would be like looking to rose-tinted glasses.

I don´t know why I get so terribly misunderstood in here by certain forumers. Things are crystal-clear.

[Matthias Offodile]

Nigeria and especially a city like Abuja could and SHOULD build better malls and entertainement complexes like this...

[BUTEMBO21]

Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

many structures in Abuja were built by German and Italian construction companies...again this is fact!

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I thought it was just Nigerians that build all structures.

Cape Town is breathtakingly beautiful and offers so much for everybody, very appealing...Abuja is good as well but it is still horribly boring and as for the pics shown they don´t look that good, to be honest with you. This is no negative criticism.

That's a constructive criticism.

New Capitals are so boring. nothing more than Federal Buildings and some hotels.


You will never here an American saying , that I love to go to Washington DC. Because there is nothing special to do in the city.
The people that work in Government vacate every weekend to go to New York to have fun.

[JoHaN 15]

Here's my honest opinion. Abuja has very good infrastructure and roads, BUT it lacks soul. It looks like a really bleak and dull city. It's "skyline" looks too forced..

PS: Why was the Cape Town thread closed??

[Rdokoye]

Originally Posted by BUTEMBO21

New Capitals are so boring. nothing more than Federal Buildings and some hotels.

Yea, like Kinshasa; boring, drab and dirty

[greenandgold]

Ok this is my first comment maybe last.
I think Abuja is very clean and well planned which makes it way above most African capital cities. What is lacking in this city is an organic fluid feel and atmosphere. From the pictures I have seen I could not find some sense of life in the city and I could not find anything special accept that its a purpose built capital which is often rare.

Not all capitals are boring, I personally prefer Pretoria over Johannesburg in terms of entertainment. Pretoria is buzzing with students from UNISA, UP, TUT and other colleges and its my best city inland and it never disappoint in entertainment.

Im not comparing between cities but Im trying to say Abuja could add more so to have an urban lifestyle and attract more energy to the city.

[Alex Roney]

Wait since when is Washington D.C considered boring? Their is a ton of stuff to do there, it's actually rated as one of the best places in America for young people to live in.

[Skyprince]

What's wrong with Abuja ? I like it very much and it should never be compared to London, Dubai or other point-focused cities since it's built as a well planned, low-density city which can be grouped together with Canberra, Astana, Brasillia etc.

[Prince_7]

Thankyou Skyprince i totaly agree. but some people just cant see things for what they really are.. its so pathetic such a self esteem case"Mathis" haha

[popa1980]

Originally Posted by greenandgold

Ok this is my first comment maybe last.
I think Abuja is very clean and well planned which makes it way above most African capital cities. What is lacking in this city is an organic fluid feel and atmosphere. From the pictures I have seen I could not find some sense of life in the city and I could not find anything special accept that its a purpose built capital which is often rare.

Not all capitals are boring, I personally prefer Pretoria over Johannesburg in terms of entertainment. Pretoria is buzzing with students from UNISA, UP, TUT and other colleges and its my best city inland and it never disappoint in entertainment.

Im not comparing between cities but Im trying to say Abuja could add more so to have an urban lifestyle and attract more energy to the city.

Thats the thing though, anyone can build a city but you just cant create a vibrant atmosphere which is a natural progression. Abuka was a political stunt to appease the Northerners. If this money had been spent on improving Lagos it would have been much better. Im just not a fan of new planned places- im from a new town in Scotland and its the laughing stock of the UK- it was built and desgned from scratch after the war- very soulless.

[myirakazi]

Abuja seems like a nice city!
a step in the right direction. the"soul" will catch up eventually (if ppl think there is none)
there is infastructure, its clean and it seems to be properly planned and managed.

what do ppl want??
when we lack cities like abuja, we complain...
here lies Abuja, we complain WTF????

[kenndo]

Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

No, it was built by Africans (black and white) as well...it will never enter your head that Africans can also be non-black, won´t it?...wonderful, Europe´s far right wings thoughts have also also found ardently devoted members on African soil.

well i least agree with this,that capetown was built by both black and white just like south africa was.

[kenndo]

Originally Posted by Abidrovia

Yeah, its very common for nations to hire outside sources to build things for them.

- Brazil hired a man born in France named Lucio Costa; and he was the main urban planner of the city of Brasilia.
- The USA Port Authority (PATH) hired a Japanese man (Minoru Yamasaki) to build the World Trade Center in NYC.
- The USA and the much of the entire Western Hemisphere used slaves to build up their nations
- Dubai uses Indians and other Asians to build most of that cities amazing skyscrapers

My point is that NO country just uses its internal resources to build landmarks and if what you are saying is the case then NONE of the worlds nations can take credit for landmarks and other noteworthy things built in that particular country.

(But don't get me wrong, you definitely have a point and yes, the people who designed Abuja should be given their fair share of credit but the nation is always given the majority of the credit in this situation.)

I AGREE and Abuja looks first world and really nice.

[evany]

After all what is the capitol of nigeria??is lagos or abuja???Damn it...is so freakin complecated

[kenndo]

abuja now.

[CasaMor]

Originally Posted by kenndo

I AGREE and Abuja looks first world and really nice.

Come on! Have you already been to Europe?

[evany]

You guys should stop make this kinda of comparation...africa is not the third world as some limp dick assholes like to say it...everything born in here but I guess people are just forgetting this part...and for the record Africa is numero uno...we have everything...CasaMor...europe sucks..is beautiful I give that but the people are too fake, too cold, betrade you like you are some chicken or something...saddly this idiots are taking this kinda of behaviour into our continent

[CasaMor]

Originally Posted by evany

You guys should stop make this kinda of comparation...africa is not the third world as some limp dick assholes like to say it...everything born in here but I guess people are just forgetting this part...and for the record Africa is numero uno...we have everything...CasaMor...europe sucks..is beautiful I give that but the people are too fake, too cold, betrade you like you are some chicken or something...saddly this idiots are taking this kinda of behaviour into our continent

I'm talking about developpement! Their cities are developped, it's sad but it's the truth! The small villages in Spain are stunning and so developped!

[evany]

Originally Posted by CasaMor

I'm talking about developpement! Their cities are developped, it's sad but it's the truth! The small villages in Spain are stunning and so developped!

Developped??may have infrastructure and among some important stuff...but they have bad behaviour....but yes they are developped