INFOGRAPHIC: Turkey Is Spending Billions on Construction. Where Is All the Money Going?

INFOGRAPHIC: Turkey Is Spending Billions on Construction. Where Is All the Money Going?

This week’s Forefront details how Turkey has become a “constructocracy,” with “nearly $100 billion worth of construction projects on the drawing board. We’ve put together an infographic to show where the government is putting those billions.

In this week’s Forefront story, David Lepeska explores the construction boom transforming Istanbul and other fast-growing global cities. He points to the tens of billions that will be spent on Mumbai’s new metro lines and the $600 billion per year China has allocated for its current housing push, while digging into Istanbul’s rapid-fire redevelopment. “Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,” Lepeska writes, “has nearly $100 billion worth of construction projects on the drawing board.”

So where is all that money headed? See how the billions break down in the infographic below.

Cassie Owens is a regular contributor to Next City. Her writing has also appeared at CNN.com, Philadelphia City Paper and other publications.

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