#NEOM aka “#TheLine”, #SaudiArabia will take 10 years to build, 105-mile-long linear city for 9 million people. No cars. Super-high-speed train to connect end-to-end in 20 minutes. Mirrored exterior. 500 meters tall. My thoughts follow... #Future
2/ #CitiesSkylines #STEM Don't get me wrong. I love technology and was fascinated by giant space stations in the sky as a kid. But... The first problem I see is there's no existing anchor town or organic reason for #NEOM to exist where it is to be built.
https://twitter.com/USAS_WW1/status/1578119004694118400
3/ #Ghosts People don't like moving 1,000 miles to an empty city where there is no one and especially no one they already know. The city is actually a series of modules / mini-cities. I'd build one of these around a metro stop in Riyadh and see if anyone moves in. 
4/ #Maps #Cities #Technology - The mirror is a great idea for LEED, sensitivity to nature. But a 105 mile / 170 km city in the shape of a giant, mirrored, wall would prevent animals, many birds (?), Bedouins, the wind, etc., from their natural migrations and movements.
5/ I don't know how many people outside New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, like riding an elevator to go outside. #NEOM's marketing says you're then at one with nature, but a mountainous desert nature would get old. You'd still have to fly to visit family, etc.
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