"The Line" - Saudi Arabia plans 100 mile long indoor megacity. [Neom]

[Indeliblelink]

I suspect this will be more science fiction than something that actually gets built any time soon but maybe it's a hint of the future. The concept art is pretty cool even allowing for the rather computer game style graphics.

Saudi Arabia plans 100-mile-long mirrored skyscraper megacity

The Line – due to be just 200 metres wide – will make Neom world’s most liveable city ‘by far’, officials claim

www.theguardian.com

Saudi Arabia reveals design for 170-kilometre-long mirrored skyscraper

The Saudi Arabian government has unveiled visuals of a 500-metre-tall, linear city named The Line, which will be built near the Red Sea as part of Neom.

www.dezeen.com

 

[platinumsage]

Megalomaniac vanity project, thankfully won’t actually get built.

 

[tommers]

Looks fucking horrendous.

 

[MickiQ]

Awesomw video but I suspect this is probably about as far as this scheme will get

 

[Yossarian]

Prince Salman: "I need some kind of huge project to show how much I'm modernising the kingdom, but what could it be?"

(does a massive line of cocaine) "Wait, I think I have something...."

 

[Elpenor]

And when you turn 30, you enter carousel for the chance to be reincarnated

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Prince Salman: "I need some kind of huge project to show how much I'm modernising the kingdom, but what could it be?"

It's got to be easier than actually upgrading the status of women, making homosexuality legal, providing good working conditions for imported workers, and other "modern" things like that.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Mega Saudi One

 

[stavros]

They've lost their heads.

 

[SpookyFrank]

William Gibson already did it.

Probably.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The slickly produced films show a megacity that partly resembles the Death Star with hanging gardens.

 

[not-bono-ever]

The worlds going to shit across the board and a murderous fucker is planning on hoying trillions on a vanity project in a fucking wasteland. Without any easing of current alcohol restrictions

Fuck my life

 

[cybershot]

Looks like something out of the expanse.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Let's just hope none of the 100 million inhabitants need drinking water or food or anything.

 

[High Voltage]

100 mile long indoor mega city... In a desert... OK... Seems like a great idea... Whatcha gonna do when the oil runs out?

 

[tommers]

We all know that it will rapidly split into an undercity, full of mutants, and the Upper Levels where all the posh people live.

 

[tim]

I suspect this will be more science fiction than something that actually gets built any time soon but maybe it's a hint of the future. The concept art is pretty cool even allowing for the rather computer game style graphics.

Saudi Arabia plans 100-mile-long mirrored skyscraper megacity

The Line – due to be just 200 metres wide – will make Neom world’s most liveable city ‘by far’, officials claim

www.theguardian.com

Saudi Arabia reveals design for 170-kilometre-long mirrored skyscraper

The Saudi Arabian government has unveiled visuals of a 500-metre-tall, linear city named The Line, which will be built near the Red Sea as part of Neom.

www.dezeen.com

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There is nothing cool about the absurd fantasies of a brutal cosseted crayonista, who would have no compunction about having you sawn into lumps of flesh and flushed down a lavatory

 

[Jeff Robinson]

World’s largest exporter of crude oil to become become an eco-hub? Doubt it

 

[IC3D]

Desalination and air-conditioning will be a carbon neutral tough call.

 

[Humberto]

Dystopian. Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

World’s largest exporter of crude oil to become become an eco-hub? Doubt it

This is just one more reason why we need to get off oil as soon as we can.

 

[Spymaster]

They've lost their heads.

Quite some time ago.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

We all know that it will rapidly split into an undercity, full of mutants, and the Upper Levels where all the posh people live.

I'm tempted to compare it to any of the numerous mega-cities already in existence. When I visited Chicago, I noticed that the rich literally live in one of the tallest buildings in the world, while homeless people sleep in its shadow.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Fucking insane.

 

[Cloo]

Without JG Ballard, who is going to write a novel about how hideously wrong this would go if built?

 

[hipipol]

The idea has been about for a while, has anything actually been built

And when you turn 30, you enter carousel for the chance to be reincarnated

Out for jog are we Logan?

 

[hipipol]

This came out over a year ago, when it was first announced

Still, lots of over the top renders doesnt actually create much

 

[SpookyFrank]

100 million people will be 100 million corpses if the a/c packs up. Saudi Arabia is likely to be at non-survivable temperatures in the near future. In fact I think fatal wet-bulb temperatures have already been recorded there. They definitely have in the UAE.

Also, I know all these people can commute in an instant to their job in the neighbouring pod, but what will they actually do? Heavy industry is out. Agriculture is out. I know the oil industry needs a lot of lobbyists and PR drones but it doesn't need 100 fucking million of them.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I know the oil industry needs a lot of lobbyists and PR drones but it doesn't need 100 fucking million of them.

You might not need them, but if you do have them you must see the positive side to containing them all within a flimsy metal-and-glass sarcophagus in hostile environmental conditions with the imminent threat of non-survivable temperatures?

 

[SpookyFrank]

You might not need them, but if you do have them you must see the positive side to containing them all within a flimsy metal-and-glass sarcophagus in hostile environmental conditions with the imminent threat of non-survivable temperatures?

Are you tired of spending money on a tomb you'll never get to enjoy? Why not move into one while you're still alive!

Always worried about dying alone? Come to a place where the screams of 99,999,999 other people as they're cooked alive in a solar-powered microwave will guide you gently into the waiting arms of Allah.