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They want everyone to have a view of nature, not of city.
They are planning to pay a mighty high cost for a bunch of views of desert and stony mountains. Not that I am knocking the views, they have a certain serene value to them, but it is not that hard to get those types of views in Saudi Arabia.
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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_...
I personally can't get enough of this foolish mega-project, I love the dry reporting on it.
Here's one of the latest: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mbs-neom-saudi-arabi...
There was also a very telling interview with architects, builders, concept people etc... and after talking about Neom in all enthusiasm for a bit the interviewer asked each a simple question: would you live in Neom?
And the uncomfortable shifting in the seats and vague answers that followed were very telling. No one believes in this, not even the people working on it.
Totally unrealistic. How long do they have to build this? A few years? Even the worst slave driving culture ever can't get enough slaves for something this crazy in that time frame. It's a really interesting concept though.
Cool idea, sounds pretty impractical as stated.
Bloomberg has a good running series on this 'city of the future'. As you will expect consultants are making good money on this. I personally can't get enough of this foolish mega-project, I love the dry reporting on it. Here's one of the latest: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mbs-neom-saudi-arabi... There was also a very telling interview with architects, builders, concept people etc... and after talking abo…
So it's basically like working at a FAANG, except you have to go sit in the middle of a remote desert to work on your PowerPoints.
Bloomberg has a good running series on this 'city of the future'. As you will expect consultants are making good money on this. I personally can't get enough of this foolish mega-project, I love the dry reporting on it. Here's one of the latest: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mbs-neom-saudi-arabi... There was also a very telling interview with architects, builders, concept people etc... and after talking abo…
Another question, WHO will live in Neom? Saudi Arabia only have 19-20 million native citizens, the rest are all expats.