Let’s see, mile long city with tall walls, no noticeable way in or out and everything monitored. This ain’t a city, it’s a prison. Liberals would like it because everyone is the same.
China's Country Garden has a 60% stake in the Forest City estate, while the remaining 40% of the estate is owned by Sultan Ibrahim, the king of Malaysia.
This is what happens when stupid people with diploma, are given possibility to do damage. And this thing is happening all over the world. They are the reason why worlds is such a garbage place to live in.
Prophet Muhammad (as) said ( regarding the end times ): “…And you will see barefoot naked poor shepherds/Bedouins vying with one another in the construction of buildings…”
Almost all tall buildings in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and similer places have been designed by western architects and western engineers, with Indian slave labour. Architects and engineers who are honest say the line is nigh on impossible to build. I actually hate skyscrapers, they fit America, but not London, Paris, Frankfurt or Moscow, each of the cities though have vast amounts of achitecture that is old and so beautiful that was built over time in different architectual periods, which I prefer much more tnan American style skyscrapers or brutalist commie garbage that was built during the 60's and 70's..
9000 residents in a 28,000 apartments ($7 billion invested so far). 70% sold, maintenance fees paid. TINY PROJECT Add the RTS-LRT, British International School, EU theme parks. Then a Pengerang-Shell station possible tie up. A Tanjung Pelepas-Warehouse in competition with PSA, Port Klang & Penang port. 12 million TEU just next to Forest City. THERE is also DANGA BAY, which is also pretty quiet. Many units are bought by Singaporean. Also cost $1.0 million apartments. $500 billion. (If fully successful) Up North, there is bigger fish to fry. About $1.0 trillion gdv. There is massive DATA CENTRE & AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, ROBOTS. Now AI GPU design city as well, a BeV, Icev city. Really, why so much complain about a SANCTUARY CITY. THERE is also DANGA BAY, and KLCC,(targeted at Hong Kong & Macao, Japanese, British, Korean residents) SILICON ISLAND. Pretty quiet too. But people PAID for these luxurious property. Just wealthy middle class citizens in Red China & Pacific rim.
Malaysian households prefer to buy landed properties, mostly 1,800 sq. ft. in Kinta, Klang & Johor Baru. Price is $800,000 to $1,600,000. Yes this 1.0 million household holding a wealth base of approximately $6 trillion onshore, and US$ offshore in IFC. They also own 1.5 million investment properties. It is not so bad if we understand the economics of it all. Yes, we have incompetent politicians, vested interest of the factions in the country with their external networks. (The Straits of Malacca is very strategic in the wealthiest part of the globe). So that explains the GREAT INTEREST. Stay calm. Not all projects are successful. 😂
By the way. This is an ongoing project with the entirety not completed yet, delayed by covid 18. US Feds credit squeeze. And IT IS NOT A belt & road initiative. Just Red China narratives only. 😂
The LINE will house all the workers, servants and maintenece people serviceing the surrounding clubs for only The MEGA RICH. Call it what it is: Slave City.
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for me it's like a futuristic prison AI, Robots, flying saucers, strangers monitoring you 24/7 Mankind's trajectory looks pretty bleak Coming from an optimist give me an oasis any day
Of course it will fail for the simple reason that the LINE is the most inefficient structure type, the longer it gets the more space it eats up for services
If this prince were in a civilized country with real law and justice, he would have been tried for misusing public money and trying to implement fake projects to pass deals suspected of corruption.
Those guys are just like me : they start an ambitious project, see that it's going fail, abandon it and start another one. Only MY personal projects don't cost billions of dollars and don't rely on unpaid overworked workers.
The NEOM Line is what happens when you have someone with so much wealth and power who think that their wealth (often inherited) makes them smarter than everyone else. When Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud first mentioned the idea unfortunately there was no one in the room who was brave enough to quote the line from the 1995 Billy Madison movie and say to him "....what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." Any first year urban planning student could explain to the prince why none of what has been proposed would work. Even the statement that the transit system would be able to travel end to end in twenty minutes, even if that technology existed, what about all the stops along the way? There is a reason why there are no linear cities in the world, because it is a dumb idea.
Let all live in the high-rise projects who works here to serve the people who can afford to live there. Seeing as they are in the middle of the desert how are all of the consumables going to arrive. Ya just need to dodge the missiles from Yemen and you may get your yak milk delivery. Wow they could have bought a useful piece of Africa and had a blast.
Honestly on face value its a modular development with a predetermined structure and destination... doing so totally removes the likely hood of urban sprawl because its future development is already defined...Before all else the concept has merit worth acknowledging whether this example and form is successful or not..
Now we have many chinese tourist came to Malaysia and missing as illegal imigrant and claim to be Malaysian citizen with the help of some politician and corrupted government official....
Too early to say it failed or otherwise. As it's too far ahead of it's time i.e. the demand is not there yet as much of the surrounding infrastructure have not been developed ?! They even planning of another artificial island to left of Tuas 2nd Link, as their sales staff informed me just few days ago (Apr 2024) upon my visit to their fairly impressive sales showroom.
The Saudi royals are prepared to spend an astounding amount of money on a project that is doomed to fail and which will make them look like buffoons. Has it ever occurred to them that they could spend a similar amount of money on ending poverty and/or starvation on Earth and be considered among the greastest benefactors to mankind of all time?
How many billions will they spend to what will be eventually be just the longest desert ditch ever? It's not as if they have nothing else to spend money on. There are untapped oil fields, other untapped mineral resources, their sh!t army that lost to Yemen...basically anything but a ditch this dude is going to destroy his country
