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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.
City of the future built by a government stuck in the dark ages.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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_...
“What struck me was that Neom’s vision is really an anti-vision. It is the opposite of the old Saudi Arabia. In the old Saudi Arabia, and even to an extent today, corruption and bureaucracy layered on each other to make an entrepreneur’s nightmare. Riyadh has almost no public transportation. No matter where you are, you cannot walk anywhere, except perhaps to your local mosque. No one in Neom mentioned religion at all. Even Neom’s location is suggestive. It is far from where Saudis actually live. Instead it is huddled in a mostly empty corner, as if seeking sustenance and inspiration from Jordan and Israel.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/04/mohamme...
Reminds me somewhat of a human ant colony. Surprised it isn't underground, but then ecological concerns seem not to be a priority.
265,000 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.
City of the future built by a government stuck in the dark ages.
While 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. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Safer