8/15/2022

The Line - Saudi Arabia future city





A tall and narrow stripe of a city more than 1097 km long, with 9 million residents and running entirely on renewable energy — that's the vision Saudi Arabia's leaders have for The Line, part of a "giga-project" that will reshape the kingdom's northwest.

The Line will stretch from the Red Sea eastward across the desert and into a mountain range.

New stats and designs revealed on Monday include:

  It will be a walled city
  It will be only 200 meters wide
  It will be enclosed on both sides by a mirrored façade
 It will rise 500 meters above sea level — higher than the Empire State Building
 Residents will be able to run errands with a five-minute walk
 There will be no cars or roads
  High-speed rail will carry people from end to end in 20 minutes
It will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to build

When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman showed the new designs .he said "The designs revealed today for The Line will challenge the traditional flat, horizontal cities and create a model for nature preservation and human livability,"

The structure will maintain an ideal climate year-round, thanks to its mix of shade, sunlight and ventilation.

But not everyone liked the concept of living between gigantic walls in the Saudi desert.

 “I've been working on a dystopian game for a while and these videos are such a great source of inspiration”. one commenter wrote in reply to a video of The Line posted by the Saudi Press Agency.

“Seems like a city from an episode of Black Mirror. Isn't this how horror stories start?”

“Can't wait to see what the abandoned version is going to look like. Must be nice to have so much money, you can spend endlessly on future failures such as this.” 



 


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Article from NPR (edited)  

Screenshots NPR and NEOM THE LINE






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