Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis

If you don't get past the headline you might miss the most interesting part of this story. Bhutan is building a special economic-zone city, based on Singapore as a model, and designed by Bjarke Ingels. The renders are really striking, many of the major and most important buildings are designed to double as bridges over the river. Skip to 16:52 in the video to see the renders of the planned development "Gelephu Mindfulness City".

how about renaming it to Lhotshampa hatefulness city ?

In case anyone wondered this is referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_in_Bhutan

This is an interesting thread related to the subject

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gisa55/why_d...

IMO also a good exploration of the ethnic cleansing of Lhotsampa and the subsequent hardships faced by the refugees is The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan, edited by Venkat Pulla.

> designed by Bjarke Ingels

Well, designed by his company which is called BIG.

I always find it weird that people name-drop famous architects as if one person could design a city or even a single large skyscraper. That doesn't happen with other industries.