A Closer Look at Global Megaprojects

With the explosion in urban populations comes the need to provide infrastructure on a massive scale for inhabitants. Roads, tunnels, dams, rail networks, airports, power plants, and even entire cities are all required, and the budget for these far exceeds the infrastructure of the past. A loose definition of a megaproject is that it costs over $1 billion, but in the case of developing nations, a megaproject can cost less (say, in the region of $100 million.)...