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

[8ball]

With all the uninhabitable desert outside this is basically going to be like living on one of the stations in The Expanse minus the oxygen rationing, isn't it

Now, now, let's not be hasty - markets show oxygen scores very highly with consumers and it doesn't take very long without it before they become very compliant to a reasonable regimen of fees plus a standing charge.

 

[pogofish]

What? To the whole network? I didn't think so. But when the "network" is one big straight line, I would think that might introduce some novel logistical issues.

They seem to cope reasonably well on some lines in the New York Subway that are basically straight over fairly long distances - eg in to Queens, where a passing/express line lets trains pass through stations with other trains stopped. Express Subway trains only stopped every few stations (4-6?), where passengers could then change to a local/stopping train when nearer their destination.

 

[pogofish]

Religion really is hilarious.

IIRC Sharia has quite a lot of opt-outs/flexibility when it comes to merchant/trading activities.

 

[teuchter]

Trying to think of precedents for linear settlements.

Volgograd



Florida Keys

 

[weltweit]

I like it, something original for a change ..

 

[Cid]

I like it, something original for a change ..

To be fair Le corbusier was proposing linear settlements 90 years ago.

 

[Cloo]

I have to say, in a time of increasing desertification and water shortage and need for sustainability, building a massive fucking air-conditioning-requiring city running through a desert doesn't really seem like a solution?

 

[Cid]

I have to say, in a time of increasing desertification and water shortage and need for sustainability, building a massive fucking air-conditioning-requiring city running through a desert doesn't really seem like a solution?

Thing is you need all of those things if you're going to build there anyway. Making the footprint as small as possible, and taking as much advantage of site characteristics (like orientation, see that thing teuchter quoted) as possible is going to be the most efficient way to do that.

This is independent of mismanagement, human rights etc of course.

 

[bluescreen]

It's called THE LINE. Not the circle. You can't call a circle a line. Bloody hell.

It's not a comic book.

It's the FUTURE!!

Tbf I don't know why they had to make it a straight line rather than a circle.

Mind you, there's Wuppertal as a linear settlement, with its famous overhead railway. Wuppertal Schwebebahn - Wikipedia

 

[Indeliblelink]

To be fair Le corbusier was proposing linear settlements 90 years ago.

This one was proposed in the 1880s

Linear city (Soria design) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[editor]

If only they'd kept it going, we could have been contenders!

 

[teuchter]

 

[likesfish]

Tick tok fully in support of this wonderful vision

 

[Pickman's model]

If only they'd kept it going, we could have been contenders!

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[Elpenor]

Saudia launching flights there next month

New routes: Newquay to East Midlands, Manchester to Copenhagen, Heathrow to Neom

UK regional carrier Eastern Airways is doubling down at Cornwall Newquay Airport for 2023, adding a new daily year-round flight to East Midlands Airport.

www.headforpoints.com

 

[CNT36]

This is a good place as any for this cuntery .

Biden administration says Mohammed bin Salman should be granted sovereign immunity in Khashoggi civil case

Court filing says Saudi crown prince’s promotion to the role of prime minister meant that he was ‘the sitting head of government and, accordingly, immune’

www.theguardian.com

Despite all the talk of holding MBS to account for the death of Jamal Khashoggi the Biden administration have decided the crown prince is protected by sovereign immunity.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

This is a good place as any for this cuntery .

Biden administration says Mohammed bin Salman should be granted sovereign immunity in Khashoggi civil case

Court filing says Saudi crown prince’s promotion to the role of prime minister meant that he was ‘the sitting head of government and, accordingly, immune’

www.theguardian.com

Despite all the talk of holding MBS to account for the death of Jamal Khashoggi the Biden administration have decided the crown prince is protected by sovereign immunity.

Further proof that we need to get off of oil with extreme haste. It's not only adding to climate change, it's enabling shit like this to happen.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Trying to think of precedents for linear settlements.

Volgograd

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Florida Keys

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Combe Martin, North Devon:

 

[CNT36]

Combe Martin, North Devon:

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Doesn't really count but the question made me think of maps of ancient Egypt.

 

[tim]

Whittier, Alaska isn't at all linear but is a town, or more accurately small village,where nearly everyone lives in the same building

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[Reno]

My former home is probably a contender for the UK version.

 

[klang]

My former home is probably a contender for the UK version.

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olympic village? did you live there?

 

[Reno]

olympic village? did you live there?

Rowley Way in Camden

Alexandra Road Estate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Elpenor]

I’m sure I’ve seen that as a filming location in stuff

 

[Cid]

I’m sure I’ve seen that as a filming location in stuff

Very likely. Brunswick centre is another popular brutalist location that has a a broadly similar aesthetic (different architect).

Worth reading up on Camden Council architects and Neave Brown. If you walk around Camden you'll see the relics of that department, and a time when there was hope for innovative approaches to social housing.

 

[Reno]

I’m sure I’ve seen that as a filming location in stuff

I think there was a film crew there every couple of months, some of the productions which got shot there are in the Wikipedia article I linked to. Rowley Way has even has played the Munich Olympic Village in the mini series of The Little Drummer Girl.

 

[klang]

It even has played the Munich Olympic Village in the mini series of The Little Drummer Girl.

i thought it looked quite similar...

 

[Reno]

Very likely. Brunswick centre is another popular brutalist location that has a a broadly similar aesthetic (different architect).

Worth reading up on Camden Council architects and Neave Brown. If you walk around Camden you'll see the relics of that department, and a time when there was hope for innovative approaches to social housing.

Neave Brown was in regular contact with the community there almost till his death. Wonderful man.

 

[Elpenor]

i thought it looked quite similar...

That’s what I recognise it from

 

[DaveCinzano]

I’m sure I’ve seen that as a filming location in stuff

Loads of stuff! Goodnight Charlie Bright with Danny Dyer, Never Never with John Simm...