The Line Saudi Arabia

2022 - 7 - 27

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Saudi Arabia plans 100-mile-long mirrored skyscraper megacity (The Guardian)

The Line – due to be just 200 metres wide – will make Neom world's most livable city 'by far', officials claim.

“But funding is only part of the equation … demand is harder to buy, especially when you’re asking people to be part of an experiment on living and working in the future,” Mogielnicki said. The “first phase” of the project, lasting until 2030, would cost 1.2tn Saudi riyals (about £265bn), Prince Mohammed said. Residents will have “all daily needs” reachable within a five-minute walk, while also having access to other perks, such as outdoor skiing facilities and “a high-speed rail with an end-to-end transit of 20 minutes”, according to a statement. Now it’s a vehicle for reimagining urban life on a footprint of just 13 sq miles (34 sq km), addressing what Prince Mohammed describes as “liveability and environmental crises”. “That’s the main purpose of building Neom, to raise the capacity of Saudi Arabia, get more citizens and more people in Saudi Arabia. And since we are doing it from nothing, why should we copy normal cities?” Neom was once touted as a regional “Silicon Valley”, a biotech and digital hub spread over about 10,000 sq miles (26,000 sq km).

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Future or fantasy? Designs unveiled for one-building city stretching ... (CNN)

"The Line" is touted as a one-building city in the desert which will stretch over 106 miles and house millions but critics have cast doubt on whether the ...

"The designs ... will challenge the traditional flat, horizontal cities and create a model for nature preservation and enhanced human livability. Similar ghost town fates befell other costly projectsin the Yujiapu Financial District in Tianjin, China, and Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar. The Line forms part of a Saudi rebrand plan ---coined Vision 2030--- to rival its Gulf neighbors such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi as travel hotspots and reshape the kingdom's economy. The group has been highly critical of Saudi Arabia's visa sponsorship system, known as kafala. "This was a heinous crime," bin Salman said in an interview with CBS in 2019. It will span 34 square kilometers (13 square miles), according to the press release.

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The Line: Saudi Arabia's City of the Future Design (Pro Tool Reviews)

Saudi Arabia Announces The Line As A Futuristic 100% Renewable Energy City ... We've often imagined what our cities of the future might look like, but I'll be the ...

They expect the first 1.5 million residents to be living in The Line by 2030. What will you be allowed to race? We’ve often imagined what our cities of the future might look like, but I’ll be the first to admit that Saudi Arabia’s The Line was nowhere on my radar.

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Saudi Arabia unveils plans for 170-km-long mirrored megacity ... (Daily Hive)

The Line will be 200 meters wide, but rise 500 meters into the sky and extend across 170 kilometers. The whole thing will be clad in mirrors.

They do, however, come with renderings reminiscent of a sci-fi film. There will be a year-round temperate microclimate with natural ventilation. The whole thing will be clad in mirrors.

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The Line: Saudi Arabia to build 75-mile long 'earthscraper' city (Globetrender)

The Line will take the form of mirrored glass 'earthscraper' that stretches across the Saudi Arabian desert.

“Neom will be a place for all people from across the globe to make their mark on the world in creative and innovative ways. The Line will tackle the challenges facing humanity in urban life today and will shine a light on alternative ways to live. “We cannot ignore the livability and environmental crises facing our world’s cities, and Neom is at the forefront of delivering new and imaginative solutions to address these issues. “The Line is designed as a series of unique communities providing equitable views and immediate access to the surrounding nature at the heart of the globe’s key trade routes. And the Line’s infrastructure means they will be able to travel end-to-end in 20 minutes, with no need for cars resulting in zero carbon emissions.” Instead, it will spearhead a new concept of “zero gravity urbanism”.

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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman revealed the first glimpses of what The Line will look like.

There was also a mention of a sports stadium built 1,000 feet above the ground and the issue of how the project could disrupt the migration of birds as well as snatch lands away from the tribes of the region. The Line is being designed to put humans first in the pecking order of urban planning and strip off the need for roads to move cars and buses around. “We cannot ignore the livability and environmental crises facing our world’s cities, and NEOM is at the forefront of delivering new and imaginative solutions to address these issues.

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'The Line': Saudi Arabia reveals ambitious carbon-zero city plan (NEWS.com.au)

Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans to introduce an eco-friendly megacity dubbed 'The Line'. The project features a unique design, taking the shape of a ...

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The Line: A grand vision of the future or a petrol-dollar fantasy? (Stuff.co.nz)

Bill Mackay, a senior lecturer of architecture and planning at the University of Auckland, says Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's hyped and hyper-modern city ...

“One of the key parts of it is that it's a linear community built around transport. All the shade that they generate allows people to walk. We have a lot of thinking to be done with our architecture.” And those articles are free. “I think architecture actually does solve the world's problems at times. But the reality would be nothing more than a giant land-stricken cruise ship, a New Zealand architecture professor says. Chicca said the production of The Line would have a far larger environmental impact than the construction of a normal dense city, because of how challenging it was to verticalise infrastructure. In the case of The Line it's an answer to which there actually wasn't much of a problem in the first place, but at least it's an answer. "It's already so boiling hot out there. But Mackay is dubious. “In Arab countries there is a real problem with linear glass and mirror glass because their buildings reflect things badly and light just bounces off each of them and the roads, and makes it a really unpleasant place to be out in. To counter that, the mirrors on the outside of the skyscrapers will reflect it away from the buildings inside The Line.

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Video reveals 170-kilometre-long mirrored skyscraper The Line in ... (Dezeen)

This video unveils the design for The Line, a 500-metre-tall mirror-clad skyscraper that will be built to house nine million people in Saudi Arabia.

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