The Line - Saudi Arabia
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:19 pm
Ok, don't shoot me if this has been posted elsewhere.
I saw an ad for this on SBS and had to look it up because it was one of the strangest concepts I have seen so far for a new city.
https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline
Basically a line of buildings encompassed within a sleek facade.
It is 200m wide, 500m high and 170km long
There are no cars and it is supposedly fully self-sustaining.
And they say it will eventually house 9 million residents.
It talks about automation through autonomous vehicles, high speed trains yada yada.
The one thing it doesn't discuss is ports
Airports, freight ports etc. and how this is distributed through the city.
It is an interesting concept, and it would be extremely interesting if even one section of this got built.
However I think it will stay in the concept basket
I saw an ad for this on SBS and had to look it up because it was one of the strangest concepts I have seen so far for a new city.
https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline
Basically a line of buildings encompassed within a sleek facade.
It is 200m wide, 500m high and 170km long
There are no cars and it is supposedly fully self-sustaining.
And they say it will eventually house 9 million residents.
It talks about automation through autonomous vehicles, high speed trains yada yada.
The one thing it doesn't discuss is ports
Airports, freight ports etc. and how this is distributed through the city.
It is an interesting concept, and it would be extremely interesting if even one section of this got built.
However I think it will stay in the concept basket