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by ajsnigrutin 1258 days ago
Also, there are areas on the edge of lisbon, that could become a new manhattan there.

Look at Belgrade for example... after the war, when the city was "full", the communists decided to build more, took an empty swampy area across the sava river, and started building... A LOT:

before: https://www.4zida.rs/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/novi-be...

After (a tiny part): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Be...

I live in slovenia, and similar projects were built here, and A LOT of them... somehow all the building stopped after we gained independence.