Make it a circle, get rid of the mirror, fill in the center. Bam! You got yourself a city.
They want everyone to have a view of nature, not of city.
Saudi Crown Prince unveils plans for $500bn structure to house 9M people
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#22Isn't sand going to start piling up on the side that the wind usually blows from?
If I were building this I would leave a large space open on the bottom, I would not have the walls go all the way to the ground.
Aside from sand, it also lets animals, humans, and vehicles pass through.
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#23265,000 people per sqkm, that's some nice population density. Cool concept, but I wonder what they mean by "equitable views". I presume not all housing units will be on the edges given that it's 200m wide.
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#24Yikes. 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.
> up-front design like this will never come to be
Paris [1] and D.C.’s cores were engineered. Several cities after WWII were bombed to a blank slate.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_...
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#25$500 billion..and to think bezos + musk + one google fonder can fund this alone. crazy
but it would probably cost way more than $500 billion
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#26Yikes. 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.
>Cities evolve organically, over decades and centuries. An up-front design like this will never come to be.
Is it really different from what the communists did, except with a more modern design?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_...
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#27City of the future built by a government stuck in the dark ages.
That's applicable for the US too.
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#28While the FSO Safer is a potential $20B humanitarian disaster in the Red sea that needs less than $20M more to start offloading the oil. Hope that the Houthi's do not sabotaged it to make him look like a fool.
> humanitarian disaster in the Red sea that needs less than $20M more to start offloading the oil
The Safer is at a Yemeni port [1], with recent UN safekeeping attempts having been inhibited by the Houthis. The environmental damage and economic cost will be borne almost entirely by western Yemen. Houthi territory.
TL; DR This is irrelevant to Riyadh’s global standing.
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#29Reminds me somewhat of a human ant colony. Surprised it isn't underground, but then ecological concerns seem not to be a priority.