The Line, Saudi Arabia

[wjfox]

News and updates on this bizarre but futuristic project.

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Plans unveiled for 100-mile long, 200 metre wide ‘mirrored’ vertical city

Wednesday 27 Jul 2022 7:27 am

Saudi Arabia is planning to build an entire city along a single line 100 miles long and just 200m wide.

Flanked by 500m high mirrored walls, officials say the megastructure will offer up to 9 million residents a temperate climate and short commutes, all powered by 100% renewable energy.

Named ‘the Line,’ Saudi officials say the project is ‘the city of the future’: a car-free metropolis that will run on 100% renewable energy and offer its residents clean air in an ever more polluted world.

It’s designed to host businesses as well as housing inside numerous vertically-stacked neighbourhoods, with residents facing a maximum commute of 20 minutes from one end of the city to the other.

Saudia Arabia’s press agency released a clip of the latest designs for the city on Monday. They show a sleek, futuristic and surprisingly green utopia, with a rooftop garden and ‘equitable views’ from any point.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/27/saudi-ar ... -17072161/

[erowind]

If they actually build it would this be considered the first major arcology?

[MythOfProgress]

hmm, not an urban planner but this seems fishy. would like to know adam something's thoughts about this one, thats for sure.

[MythOfProgress]

hmm, not an urban planner but this seems fishy. would like to know adam something's thoughts about this one, thats for sure.

luckily he came in clutch with an upload.

[R8Z]

I think it is pretty cool. Should've been a circle instead of a line, though.

[ThomasPowers]

I have heard that they already started working on it and I can't wait to see when it is all completed. No one ever thought of this idea before. I really like it.

[wjfox]

Satellite Image Shows Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity 'The Line' Is Actually Being Built

Published Yesterday 3:54PM

Saudi Arabia’s bizarre new megacity, “The Line,” is going full steam ahead. While construction began on the project in October, new satellite images have revealed how much ground the project has covered, the scale of the city’s length, and the layout of its construction site.

MIT’s Technology Review reviewed satellite images of The Line’s construction site from an Australian company called Soar, with a photo of the main base camp having been taken by a satellite from Chang Guang Satellite Technology Corporation on October 22, 2022. This main base camp is located at 28.10 degrees latitude and 35.30 degrees longitude on the eastern side of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, but Soar user Urban uploaded several images of construction occurring all along the length of the Line.

https://gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia-line-c ... 1849875521

[Jakob]

Still don't get the purpose of having a line, it's going to be very annoying if the thing you're looking for is all the way on the other end of the city. An actually sensible innovation would be to have a cubical city with vertical/horizontal elevator pods taking you wherever you need to go.

[PineappleDuckCurry]

In early 2021, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia announced The Line: a “civilizational revolution” that would house up to 9 million people in a zero-carbon megacity, 170 kilometers long and half a kilometer high but just 200 meters wide. Within its mirrored, car-free walls, residents would be whisked around in underground trains and electric air taxis.

Satellite images of the $500 billion project obtained exclusively by MIT Technology Review show that the Line’s vast linear building site is already taking shape, running as straight as an arrow across the deserts and through the mountains of northern Saudi Arabia. The site, tens of meters deep in places, is teeming with many hundreds of construction vehicles and likely thousands of workers, themselves housed in sprawling bases nearby.

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Https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/1 ... ty-google/

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

Neom: Forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city

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Saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, an ex-intelligence officer has told the BBC.

Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project.

One of them was subsequently shot and killed for protesting against eviction.

The Saudi government and Neom management refused to comment.

Neom, Saudi Arabia's $500bn (£399bn) eco-region, is part of its Saudi Vision 2030 strategy which aims to diversify the kingdom's economy away from oil.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68945445

[firestar464]

Genocide.

#BoycottTheLine

[wjfox]

New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes NEOM, since construction began

October 29, 2024

A new documentary, Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia, has revealed the total amount of worker deaths related to Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Vision 2030, a multitrillion dollar program which includes NEOM and the Line.

According to the exposé by ITV, more than 21,000 Indian, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese workers have died in Saudi Arabia since 2017 working on various aspects of Saudi Vision 2030. And according to The Hindustan Times, reports show that more than 100,000 people have “disappeared” during NEOM’s construction.

Workers also say that, under current working conditions, they are “trapped slaves” and “beggars.” There’s also been reports of wage theft, illegal working hours, and human rights abuses. More than 20,000 Indigenous people were also forcefully removed from the region to make way for NEOM.

The ITV documentary comes on the heels of another damning report by Wall Street Journal from last September. In that report, senior executives behind NEOM were accused of corruption, racism, Islamophobia, and misogyny.

https://www.archpaper.com/2024/10/docum ... 2030-neom/



Credit: NEOM