Deh-Sabz - "Green City" - will appear 10 km north of Kabul, and its area will be 400 square meters. km. By 2030, its population may reach 3 million.
The need to build this metropolis is explained by the fact that since the late 1970s, half of the country's population was forced to leave their homes, and many of this number moved to the capital. By that time, no more than 700,000 people lived in Kabul, and its urban planning structure was designed precisely for this number. Currently, about 3.5 million inhabitants live there, of which 80% are in slums or in areas of unauthorized development. The population suffers from interruptions in the supply of drinking water and electricity, not to mention access to education and health systems. Therefore, the Afghan government ordered Arshitektur-Studio, along with a team of ethnologists, sociologists and engineers of various specializations, to develop a project for a new satellite city for the country's capital. Deh Sabz should become the new economic and political center of Afghanistan, removing most of the burden from the old city.
The implementation of such a large-scale project will be financed through the sale of state land, private investment and assistance from international organizations; construction work in the new city will create about 2 million jobs.
The place for construction is a desert plateau, cut by ravines, where now there are practically no buildings or agricultural land. The project is a rigid modular system; in Deh-Sabz there will be no center as such; instead, a park will be laid out in the geometric middle of the city, triangular in plan. The main mosque, a sports complex and a cultural center (university, museum, etc.) will be located in this green area. Urban development will be limited and protected from the wind by a belt of greenery and cultivated fields.
The peculiarity of the area chosen for the construction of the new city is the presence of ravines dug by melt and rainwater flowing down from the spurs of the nearby mountain ranges. Within the boundaries of Deh-Sabz, these gorges will be converted into landscaping areas, also used for collecting water.
In the city, as mentioned above, there will be no center, as well as no division into functional zones; instead, it will be divided into districts (80,000 inhabitants), districts (40,000), micro-districts (17-20,000) and neighborhoods (5,000), each with a possible variety of buildings and infrastructure. Each separate module zone will contain residential and office complexes, hospitals, schools and colleges, theaters and libraries, courts, mosques, etc.
Special attention of the designers was paid to the problem of public transport. An extensive network of tram and bus lines will be built in Deh-Sabz, and the use of bicycles will be actively promoted. For the convenience of pedestrians, the sidewalks will be wide. The satellite city will be connected to Kabul by a tunnel, primarily intended for public transport.
The architects did not ignore the problem of the energy activity of the new metropolis: the city will itself satisfy its energy demand by 90% - thanks to renewable energy sources and a policy of resource conservation. It is also planned to actively use rainwater and purify already used water, which should cover about 80% of the city's needs for this resource.
Given the recent political history of Afghanistan, no one will vouch for the implementation of this ambitious urban development project - but the authors of the "Deh-Sabz plan" believe that one cannot be sure of the opposite.
