Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.

Saudi Arabia’s plan to build a 170km long, 500m tall, mirrored city in the desert as one of their megaprojects filled with 9 million people has now been curtailed to 2.4km long. According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia’s government has “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line...

33 min - Engineering & Megastructures - Patrick Boyle

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