Make it a circle, get rid of the mirror, fill in the center. Bam! You got yourself a city.
Saudi Crown Prince unveils plans for $500bn structure to house 9M people
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#12Are they going to build it on Tiran island or?
What gets finished first Oxagon or The Line? NEOM is clearly having fun.
https://globetrender.com/2022/03/03/saudi-arabia-oxagon-floa...
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#13It’s all fun and games until whatever transports people through the line gets blocked
Suddenly then you have “the segments”
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#14Concepts for linear cities have been around for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_city
https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/uh9mhp/the_l...
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#15Imagine the constant thwack! sounds of birds flying into the glass.
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#16Yikes. Never gonna happen. I mean, christ scale it back a bit no?
Exactly. Cities evolve organically, over decades and centuries. An up-front design like this will never come to be. Something may come from it, but it will be much more similar to a regular city than this.
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#17Isn't sand going to start piling up on the side that the wind usually blows from?
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#18Yikes. Never gonna happen. I mean, christ scale it back a bit no?
Exactly. Cities evolve organically, over decades and centuries. An up-front design like this will never come to be. Something may come from it, but it will be much more similar to a regular city than this.
Designed cities are absolutely a thing in the two states that I've lived in. They'll build a bunch of amenities and a bunch of houses / townhomes all at the same time or near the same time and then people gobble up the town homes and already have a grocery store and a bunch of restaurants in this new, previously unoccupied area.
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#19This is basically the New Urbanist plan from the book “Carfree Cities” but with more of a vertical dimension and all the curves of the central railroad unfolded into a straight line. It doesn’t seem totally impossible.
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#20Doesn't the ground move? How are they going to keep it in ... a line?
They would have to build independent sections that, over time, will shift relative to each other.