Well the supernatural can always throw our estimates into disarray, but when you’re talking the physical rebuilding of a city, that has certain practical constraints. Even giving it to the Army Corps of Engineers.
I could look for spiritual senses of some things. Babylon, perhaps, is a thing that lives even more in the soul than as a physical city. And that would be more in tune with its fundamentally wicked nature. Falling for evil can happen very quickly. Just ask Nazi Germany.
I beleive it’s goign to be a physical babylon- Daniel describes it as a center of commerce I believe- a place where the4 world’s rich will flock- a place by the way that will be so wicked that demons will roam openly in the city (again- do listen to that Jeremiah video- he details a lot of stuff backed up by scripture that will take place- it’s well worth the listen, even if you dont’ agree with him on some issues-