Mongolia's building boom traps capital residents in concrete jungle
Otgoo recalls running around freely as a child in Mongolia's once sparsely populated capital city, but he fears a rapid construction boom has now trapped his children in a concrete jungle.. The haphazard and rapid mushrooming of the capital city -- its population growing from half a million in the 1990s to roughly two million in 2022 -- has also led to massive daily traffic jams, trapping people in often hours-long commutes to and from work.
