there are so many issues with the concept, i am kinda surprised that people are even talking about it seriously.. it really seems like a first semester project you did inspired by futuristic movies
To be fair, people used to see many issues with EVs and yet look at where we are heading towards to. People used to see many issues with SpaceX and yet look at where we are heading towards to.
There is a guy who did a video much like hers in content. He managed to make it sound so seruous while being completely satirical. Its unbelivable and so comic 😅
Yes, thank you. I was looking for a reviw on the line, nut every time I'd find something, they were either making it polital and attacking arabia or even religious. But she managed to say it's stupid in such a nice way. I wish this was how they'd explain to me my errors 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
It's also worth mentioning that the train system has a single point of failure because of the city is a line. Something stops working in one place, and the whole city's transportation stops working. This project is genuinely an urban nightmare and a giant money pit.
I think that's not so terrible.Normal cities shut down entire geographies when a single rail line has issues. That's not a big difference from this. That said it would be smart to have several lines,not just the two
Thank you so much @DemiLeeArch humans must be aware of these Private Construction Sites killing our Mother Earth for their own selfish needs. Material things (matter that does not matter) everything we need is given by Mother Earth and Father Creator of Creations. Put your trust in our Mother & Father; do not put your trust in man's words. We must unite the universe by unifying with one another. We are all equal organisms. That goes for all living organisms. Humans are not as intelligent as they assume. Example they kill the very planet that keeps them alive and make no real effort to stopping it. They just propse ideas to keep the material things around and everyone slaving ... I mean working...All continue to their weekly routines sadly.
I like how the House of Saud’s progress thus far has been a seaside resort, a development for the royal family and a convenient airport with which they can now visit those places. Sounds like a con for them to get a nice beachside resort.
totally looks like a setting for a game set on another world. Those who are left behind have to live on the 2ND level, while the rich live on the 3rd level where they can see the sun.
It doesn’t seem dystopian to me but it doesn’t seem that efficient. Building a normal city with good public transport, layers and walkable streets with many kinds of plants still seems very good
also, thank you for the "ethics" portion, which contextualizes the impact of this architecture in real life, both during the build and after the build (if it would ever get to that point); architecture does not exist in isolation, so it does not make sense to ignore its physical, social, cultural, and political surroundings
Actually, it'll be more complicated because you have to give directions both horizontally and vertically. For example, "go straight for a mile, then go 20 stories up until you see the library, then turn right and walk for 20 meters."
I am not sure that I could possibly think up a more excellent scenario for a horror/dystopian film or video game. When the infrastructure fails and the electricity starts to falter, when the disease begins to spread, when the upper class hides and attacks the lower levels (and vice versa), when the authoritarian regime locks things down and lies for international appearances, when the policy is "no one in and no one out," when the protagonist needs to get from one end of the city to the other on foot passing through every stratified danger along the way, when the only way out is a fatal drop over a wall into harsh desert, when countless herds of wild disoriented beasts congregate on either side of the wall ready to rip you to shreds, when the whole thing is a mirror so that a low flying rescue vehicle accidentally crashes into it, when light itself is unreliable and the whole place is periodically cast into darkness, when the whole population is a global blend of languages and conflicting cultural expectations all starving together and freaking out and largely raised in luxury so that most of them have no basic idea of how to survive, when the food is gone and the human hunting begins, and finally, when all the bleeding edge tech goes haywire with malware so that delivery drones and infrastructure robots are repurposed by a central A.I. operating system to Purify the Line for the Synthetics... ...boooooooooy howdy do you now have the most excellent concentrated blend of intrigue, battle, survival, exploration, hope and tragedy and horror subgenres colliding. _(I mean, I'd play it.)_
That was a pretty good story with a mixture of Dead space and escape from New York with a little bit of resident evil, if done right it'll make a good game.
In engineering communities, there's a saying that keeps going around: "An architect's dream is engineer's nightmare". Which is not always true as literal meaning. It usually for design or project that just want to look cool and innovative without actually designing it to be workable. But, looking at this project, I can say this could be a nightmare for engineer, architect, and city planner.
WELL THEN THAT MEANS IT IS VERY MUCH KEEPING IN LINE WITH THE CRUEL REPTILIAN OPPRESSIVE NATURE OF THE ISLAMIC KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA. 😂😂😂😆😂😂👍👌👌 THATS HOW HUMANS SUPPOSED TO LIVE! 😏👌👍
as my professor(engineer himself) in university once said: the best architect is the dead architect😆.....I myself have a degree in architecture and I have to say, that sometimes this statement is accurate. Some ideas are just plain stupid.
Well, if you want listen explanation of the Architects behind the Line, Thom Mayne, Peter Cook etc. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oamD9QoTH9M.html
I really appreciate that you address things seriously and rationally without immediately dismissing them as ridiculous (even when they are). It seems more fair and it's refreshing
About the environment disturbance, I think it's also worth mentioning that a 500m high wall is going to disturb so much the wind patterns, it might actually have devastating consequences on the line itself: I wouldn't be surprised if it just creates a huge sand deposit in front of one side of the line, as well as create wind abrasion. Also, it might create microclimates on either side, and for sure disturb usual water patterns, maybe creating flooding in some areas after a desert rain.
That's actually a really good point too. They're basically putting this thing up in a place where it's going to be almost non-stop subjected to literal sandblasting across a huge surface area. Between that and the incalculable number of birds that will splat in that thing, structural failure in the glass panels will become a problem sooner rather than later.
also it would become incredibly unsafe if the sand that's picked up by wind gets INTO the wall... what if a gust or literally a sandstorm occurs and enters the wall .. you're at mercy of mother nature and you've basically created a death pit where you'd be spending millions of dollars cleaning out and extracting the build up of debris and sand every few months....i might be a bit off but it sure doesn't seem safe at all
@Proffessor Enigma That's not unlikely. Whether or not they care, doesn't matter, let's mount a greater body of evidence against the wall to show it is not a good idea.
@@anastasia408 Yet another very good point. In fact this point is probably pretty key, as not only would it become an issue if the wind carried sand inside somewhere accidentally, but that kind of place will absolutely need to have an integrated ventilation system all the way throughout pushing huge volumes of air around inside which, of course, means intake on the outside. Intake that's going to be constantly overwhelmed by the sand and dust that will be practically constant in that environment...
Only half through this video, but I'm surprised to see how far she is getting with such empty rhetoric. Obviously the line is a weird idea, but so far she has not made a single rationale argument. Worried about natural habit? Like have any of you ever been in a city ever? There is no natural habit. They raze it for miles in every direction. Building on a line would be a lot less disruptive, especially because it makes building up more economical. Really building on a line solves the problem of extraordinarily expensive and patchy public transport. Build all the bike trails you want outside the perimeter of the line. You can do trails through natural habit, because bikes won't destroy that. This is a childish critique of a very interesting idea. Like no shit it's an odd idea, so what? Does it make sense. For construction and running utilities and destroying less of the environment and wasting less money it makes a lot of sense.
@@onetwothree4148 Apparently you missed nearly all the arguments she brought up in the video. Let me recap for you. 1) Heat from outside the wall. More $$$ to fix. 2) Lack of natural lighting on lower levels. More $$$ to fix. 3) Verticle travel restrictions. More $$$ to fix. 4) Living standards between the upper and lower levels. Assuming The Line is completed, almost none of us can afford to live there. The subsidized money to sustain the place is in the billions. Investors won't let the poor anywhere close to the city. The entire project's existence relies on the revenue of oil. No natural city would form like this.
@@onetwothree4148 On your point of "destroying less of the environment and wasting less money", The Line worsens that argument. Having the city in a circle and near the coast would save money on transportation. A 170km long city cutting through a dessert is ruining the environment more than a dense urban area concentrated on the coast.
@@timtrong.debate Lmao, bro, building a square city like, idk, *how normal people have done so for the past four thousand fucking years* would be more logical than any city shape. You get nice grids that make it easy to move around. City superblocks would make pedestrian-friendly zones. Like, why do people make things more complicated than they need to be? Beauty? The ancient city of Rome was designed in a similar way to New York's grid city and it worked wonders for them for 1,000+ years straight and it still looks beautiful today.
I'm just imagining how crime would work there, also when she mentioned the lower levels of the residential box being that of workers and the upper levels being that of millionaires, it reminded me of the Netflix movie "The Platform" and the city concept reminds me of "Snowpiercer". the concept really sounded extremely oppressive and dystopic like another commenter said.
Glad to see a critique that addresses the mirrored walls, the (lack of) daylight, and the ecological and human disasters associated with this vanity project.
I like the idea of it as a creative exercise. I get to imagine what would I do with the constraints presented. But as a real project it presents more problems than solutions it could offer. It also kind of reminds me of the movie "Snowpiercer". Could be a real problem for anyone living there who is not a billionaire.
@@coffeyvideoproductions7767 That's basically petro states in general. The Gulf States are particularly acute examples of the resource curse in action.
When I saw the marketing for this city, I absolutely thought it was a viral teaser for a new dystopian movie or TV show. Listening to your critique of it - and in particular about how idea creation happens within cities - it weirdly makes sense that an authoritarian regime would be behind this type of concept (fewer chances to "colour outside the lines" when all you have is one long line).
I think it is way more important to realize that these kind of nonsensical concepts that er completely separate from reality only come about in authoritarian regimes. Because in any other system the idea would get shot down for being a waste of time energy and money
@@koenvandiepen7651 I would not say that. Yes, this project is pretty ridiculous, but I would not say that every sort of unreal concept is inherently bad. In fact, big projects with seemingly out-of-world ideas are what made China build such big and prosperous cities, and they are the reason we keep evolving. The way of seeing things only through a lens of "what we have, and if we waste it if we try" is safe, yet very counter-revolutionary. It is the same reason why Germany stopped growing, since they enforce too many regulations and thus practically prevent big projects from existing.
I'm just wondering, what will happen if an earthquake arrived. Let's assume a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 8. Since it's quite litteraly a line , how structurally supported is it?. Won't the damage of one platform or building create a domino effect and topple other things. Not to mention , the whole plan is to make it in layers. U can't really overcome nature , one strong earthquake and it's going to be extremely dangerous . Won't people get trapped too in these situations?
Pretty sure it’s gonna harm way less then any other 15 mil population city. I mean it’s only 170 km line, imagine how many roads are in other typical cities which destroys the ecosystem of local species
"Encourages walking" LMAO. A line is literally the mathematically least efficient way to organize this city. There's a reason most cities have a central hub with a sort of "circular web" going outwards - it maximises the number of destinations from a given point with the least amount of travel necessary
I have so much to say about how dumb this whole idea is, but I'll leave with this: it's far easier to make a 3D render look good than, you know, actual architectural plans and engineering documents
@@m.f.3347 Not to mention they didn't consider the psychological effects. People take walks to explore to feel free and have a sense of adventure. Why would you walk in a line where you know exactly what you will expect. The like is like one big mall. Nice to visit but if you live there you'll kill yourself.
Most walkable cities also tend to have good public transit systems. In theory its still possible to have a walkable city based on a series of neighbourhoods concected by railway/metro/monorail stations.
This reminds me of living in the Snowpiecer. The problems with this city is that it does not make use of the inherent advantage a grid of streets gives you. The advantage is that you can get from place to place through multiple means. This is also a safety concern. Getting to a place in multiple ways helps address fires, medical emergencies, etc. Having one line of transportation is not efficient - that’s already been proven. What about the sound and vibration of the trains relative to the proximity of housing etc.. living in a box is not a good idea! You need to be out in the world, along the coast, and minimizing the impact on the landscape.
This entire project was initiated by WEF our unholy forth Reich Nazi Wannabe leader Schwab the one who's trying to kill off 7 out of every 8 people on the planet and make those left eat bugs while the 1% get free rain of the planet as their playground. Seriously its straight out of those movies where the peons can only look at where the rich live while they live in squalor and they are only a fraction away from pulling it off. This project is to displace the population that's left into easily controlled environments that don't interfere with the rich peoples play grounds god forbid should Schwab have to see peons at his favorite beach where he likes to parade around looking like a fairy with wings in lace and a thong!
@@KarlDMarx yeah pretty dumb, using high end technology that doesn't exist yet but not taking advantage of a grid layout that have proven to be efficient for centuries
This video is a beautiful example of how to draw an audience in with a fairly straightforward but fascinating technical look at a problem that could be so easily reduced to that, then gradually teasing out the complexities of rights and social issues and sustainability. Disabled people exist, there is life in the desert, there are *communities* in a desert, there are communities in the *country* that could be seeing this money used sustainably. Really, really brilliant. Thank you Dami Lee.
Yes and not on earth but some other flat planet with very specific needs which i currently can't imagine. It reminds me of circular ring space stations, except rolled out.
there are lots of ideas like this: people always want to 'build something from scratch and get everything right from the very start'. There are two issues with that approach. First, the period of time when you start making a plan is always the time when you are least prepared to complete it. By the time you're halfway done, you're going to know a lot more about whats needed to complete your project. This means you should be prepared to change and pivot as you continue. Second, these kinds of grand plans always underestimate how big the little problems are. How do you get produce and products to every store in the city? How do you even get into the city? What if you want to move a new couch into your apartment, how will that work? Who will do maintenance on everything? its like... you ever watch those videos on the billionaire mansions with tons of open space and 18 bathrooms and 4 kitchens? Most of the time when I see those, all I can think about is how awful it would be to live there on a day to day basis. Sadly, real life doesn't fit inside a line.
At least the last points like "how to get in/Out" and "how to make changes" might in my view something which is simply not intended by those who want to build this 😬 I mean, saudi arabia is generally not known for respecting humans rights and freedom of the individual. "The Line" also gives much power over the people who would live inside it. Maybe I am totally wrong with that, but those were the first thoughts I had in mind when I heared about this project.
As a Riyadh native and someone who has lived here for their whole life, taking a simple 10 minute drive around the city you will see tons of failed architecture/construction projects. And it seems every couple of weeks they come up with a different and more extravagant megaproject to focus on.
Seems like it. They currently make god-level amounts of money from oil, but have a shortening window for how long until green energy makes most needs for oil obsolete. They’re throwing ideas against the wall and hoping one sticks. Because the alternative is like the quote from the movie Syriana. They were living in tents in the desert 100 years ago, and will be back there in another 100 years.
A line shape requires the same public buildings (schools, grocery stores, sports clubs, town halls etc.) to be built more often to serve the same amount of residents compared to a classic circular layout where residents can live in the entire radius around public buildings. Just a basic thought I had immediately from playing too much Anno
The city I live in (Brasilia, Brazil) was built some 60y ago like that and I can tell you it doesn't work in real life because, just to give a couple of examples, your favorite grocery store might not be the one build in your neighbourhood but another one that is far away. Your doctor might also be in another sector. And so on. It's illogical to impose humans how they have to live they everyday life and if tried it might fail. At least here in Brasilia it failed miserably
Honestly, a circle makes a lot more sense even from a purely mathematical standpoint. Or if they really wanted to, an oval of some sort, perhaps even a star with residential branches coming out of the centre. It's a way to use more space where a line makes me think of a really long cruise ship or something, where the things in the middle can't see out or are surrounded by other things (you can't make a space unique as easily leading to lots of the same building plans), and with a circle, you'd be able to be closer to things without having to build too high up.
Interesting that they said this city is not built around machines. Seems to me like the thing that benefits most from a straight-line plan is the train line. I love trains, but is that really any closer to building around people?
an additional thing that I dont see many people talking about: the trains failing. if even one "pod" or whatever they decide to use fails; whether it be crashing, malfunctioning, or anything else, half of the ENTIRE transport system is down until that single unit or issue is fixed. especially if you can only go in one direction. if it happens to be the case that both lines have different or the same issues within the same time period; the entire city MUST move around on foot; maybe on bikes if they have even planned for those to be included
And according to the promotional material its 170km long which means if you live in a different section from where you work you would basicly have to run a marathon just to get to work everyday
Long story short: a lot of design ideas has been put on the king’s table, he liked this one so he’s building it regardless of the cost and no one can say anything about it.
It's like they looked at all the technology and savoir faire we have today, and tried to find the most farfetched idea they could get away with by using all these tools.
@@C4H10N4O2 They wanted something people would invest in but something that would be impossible. This way they can pocket all the money and never finish anything without being blamed.
@@Dead_Goat sounds like Dubai so many failed projects 🤣 sometimes trillions just land in the wrong hands totally not surprised, when you’ve never had to work a day in your life spending money is pretty damn easy
One of my greatest concerns is that - even if many of the problems were overcome (practical, social and environmental) - renders often look more vivid than the reality, so the one great selling point - that it looks futuristic - might fail; It might end up looking and feeling claustrophobic and artificial.
I agree, the renders are not likely to match the final product. I'm expecting something between a modern airport and a large shopping centre, as in looks great when first opens but after five years starts to look tired as maintenance services cannot keep up with the work as components age, break or fail.
Exactly - renders always look pristine. Clean white walls, lusch wegetation, invisible machinery and mirrors on the outside. Practical implementation - if ever realised - will have a lot of gray beton, a few planters with rickety trees and dirty machinery. Like the "entering Zion" scene from matrix :) This project feels like a metro station. They look very nice directly after grand opening, but after a ferw years actual use they start to smell like dust and pee...
Also this is not the first time they build a city and abandon it in Saudi Arabia, they have many many failed or abandoned projects, and they have money to make everything green tomorrow if they wanted to. All the money was in Lebanon (before the crisis and the fall of Lebanese Lira) and now mostly Switzerland banks. they are hoarding it like dragons, so why bother with the poor?
I can say with full honesty that i could NEVER live somewhere as cramped and crowded-looking as this place. Just the THOUGHT of living somewhere, constantly surrounded by crowds and communities, as well as all those structures packed next to each other, jutting out into the middle of the line, it genuinely makes me feel sick, not to mention the lack of sunlight and fresh air and as the the girl in the vid said- this is a LITTERAL breeding ground for DISEASE. Just think about living in a place like this makes me feel sick to my stomach, I can just imagine this image in my head of rats trapped in a cage, all crawling over one another because of a lack of space and then Muhammad Bin Salman standing above the cage watching them fight for space. Maybe that sounds extreme but thats what this entire concept makes me think of. Im very curious about what Salmon's true motives are behind this project.🤔🧐😶😒
The fact that this is taken even the tiniest bit seriously is insane. The problems are just so fundamental and obvious, along with just being generally impossible to actually construct. I'm curious what is actually going to happen with this insane project. Will it just never get built and they hope everyone forgets it was proposed?
Probably. But the Saudis are desperate to display themselves as a paradise for the wealthy to live now that Oil is going out of fashion... so I wouldn't be surprised if a TON of money gets pissed away.
Using occam's razor leads one to the idea that NEOM is the result of people around MBS selling him on an enormous monument with all these bells and whistles and will maintain Saudi Arabia's influence, and pocketing lots and lots of money with no intent on doing much with it. Along the way, they get to grab lots of land.
For sure, it is like they crossed the cities from Judge Dredd, The Fifth Element, and Blade Runner. Not to say Galactic City ( Planet Coruscant) from Star Wars.
I don't know why everyone assumes that it's like a post nuclear war city lol, everyone can go outside to the beaches and mountain climbing, they literally building 2 huge marinas for boats and yachts outside, just think of it as a very big residential complex
Wait until poverty kicks in... ... and tent cities prop up the walk ways, and... ...some people off themselves on the central train lines, and... ... riots transform the city's linearity into a complete deadlock.
let's put the usual criticism for saudi arabia aside, the concept if you think about it is actually smart for a desert climate. - It's a mirror so it fits perfectly in the desert without having a noticeable impact on the landscape, it blends in perfectly. - Its a condensed line so that the urban sprawl wouldn't take over all the natural landscape, it seems they want to maximize the empty natural space and they don't want to damge it. - It is closed so that you can control the environment inside, you see, the desert is a very harsh and hot place , having condensed space will make it easier to cool it down and even spend less energy because everything is in one place. - There will be linear trains and any spot can be reached within 20 min, removing thousands of waiting hours lost in traffic jams. I think the city here is like an iphone lol, hiding all the details and concentrating them in one place for better efficiency and minimal look. So I understand where they are coming form.
@@yinlu3610 I have been to Saudi arabia once, people there love indoors! The go to work with their air conditned cars, spend the day at the office then go to a mall, They spend most of their time indoors away from the sun! If you walk outside in the streets you will find almost no one walking! I know it's not a perfect concept but I understand where they are coming from considering the fact that the saudi people love indoor environments away from the hot desert
@@CORZER0the low IQ "sand N" are 100% having a better life than you. and at least they are developing their countries away from oil and are having new ambitious ideas unlike other countries LOL
@@jimmiestevens7581 Looks like you didn't really watch this video, so let's take the other perspective for your comment. - It's a mirror, so how do you keep it intact? How do you make sure it doesn't wear out fast considering the sandstorms etc? - It's condensed wall reaching 170km so it will divide nature in that area and create catastrophe for the animals there. - It's so very condensed that if the life preserving system especially on the lower levels fails, everyone will have a bad time. - There comes technical problem with single part of the transportation system and all of a sudden 9 million people are all at impasse. Nobody's gonna get anywhere. I mean, have you ever seen news about train system that has never had any technical problems? With this design the whole system goes down with basically one line being out of order. Also they're kinda hinting they're gonna go for something like hyperloop. That's just not gonna work. This wall is total nightmare. Why does it even have to reach in-land deep into the desert? That's just one more engineering problem considering water. The wall is a goddamn skyscraper and we all know how problematic those are. How about terrorist attacks? You can bring the whole "town" on its knees with one small attack.
I was part of this "Engineering Exploration" program in high school, and to expose us to a little bit of civil engineering/city planning concepts, we were tasked to design a city concept from scratch. Obviously, none of us had any experience about the possible problems of different concepts, and so most of our designs, while having a noble idea in theory to solve one problem, creates lots of other problems that we didn't know to expect. "The Line" looks like one of those high school projects that we made. An idealized concept whose only real function is to look "cool," "innovative," or "futuristic," without the foresight of being able to solve any real problems. Even as someone who's not an architect, civil engineer, or city planner, I can see so many problems with this. You hit it right on the nose in this video with your point, "They're forcing these constraints that create so many issues, and saying they'll just solve those issues with better technology.
And in the end the "better technology." will just be to punch a hole in the side to get some fresh air in and build a actual functional city. But man im worried for the animal life, just cutting of all inland life of from the sea... yeah i have a had time not seeing that ending up creating a big problem
I think a the 'line' design was chosen to minimize the energy and other cost associated with maintaining a habitable environment in the desert. I think heat and moisture dissipation are much more manageable with this design. Ultimately I'm pretty sure the Saudis have the resources to hire the best people to design this city. Designing a city involves allot of tradeoffs (multi-objective optimization) and we need more in-depth information to really judge the design.
@@primaryesthethicinstincts4832 yet it would be better to build a circle. Imagine you have to move from one point to another and there is some accident on the road. In this example, you got just one way. One problem causes a possible problem for whole city. It's like New York had just one line of subway and it went bust.
The studio I'm currently working at was tasked to provide concept renderings for a segment of this project. I won't go into details (for my own safety and for keeping the job), but I will say that you can't imagine the "guidelines" we were given. And the majority of us are architects and among ourselves, we had so many questions. Me personally was concern with most of things said here in the video, and would like to add: traffic >what happens if there is an accident on the road? In cities as we know traffic disperses to the other routes. Here you have one big highway and can only go back and forward. plumbing> how in the name of Corbusier would plumbing here look like? You would basically have to treat every segment like it's "Unite de Habbitacion" itself or like one big building for itself. Foliage> It should be illegal to provide a misleading image of a full-grown tree with a canopy of 3m in diameter and only 0.5-1m growing ground depth. (Ironically this is part of my job) That "thermal diagram" is pure nonsense. The hot air rises-true, but it prevents cool air from entering the same way. Meaning cool air is supposed to be input from below so as it heats up rises and vents out. As it is fun to work on projects like this (we literary went full-on crazy with some building concepts) - It is very concerning to think that ideas like this are forced while disregarding some of the issues that are known for decades now (like negative impact on the wildlife habitat). And the thought of being part of it (by working on it) makes it even worse. As @DamiLee said here architects put their client's interest over their own, and when your client is the monarch - you can only do as he asks you to do or he will find someone else to do it as he wants it.
The plumbing alone sounds like a nightmare to even plan. Then again Burj Khalifa have their poop trucks lined up outside, maybe they'll do the same here lol
It was the wildlife and foliage problem that struck me the most. I'm by no means a professional, but the amount of plants and all... Not only do they need space, they need care too that isn't given there from the natural surrounding. Also, the ventilation concept. If that means the plants must manually be kept cool too, then the cicle of wasted effort is kinda complete, isn't it? And what about the animals. It sounds like a super-clean concept that would guarantee fox-and-mouse-free streets and i can't find anything about how natural wildlife will pass trough the line. If theres even a chance. If i, as a human, would be tasked with finding one hole between 170km of mirrors, i'd pretty much give up right away. Not even talking about how desoriented wildlife can become when confronted with a huge wall of reflections. I just hope it stays a fun 3D project and never actually sees the daylight.
@@Tbop3 It seems a bit self defeating to drop clients every time you think they are spending their money unwisely. Unless you are in a position to talk some sense into the idiotic Saudi Prince behind this whole folly there really isn’t much that can be done to prevent this train-wreck from happening so you may as well profit from it if you can.
It's weird that they're committed to this solid wall all the way along. They could easily put a lot of gaps in there, you could still have walkways connecting the sections, the underground train, etc... It would still be impressive and yet create wildlife corridors, room for movement among the preexisting tribes, etc...
The sunlight reflecting off the mirror to create heat zones was the first thing that came to mind. If they have a forest there, it'll dry up fast. The water would be very very hot.
What I find scary about "city with its own laws" is that it would create an environment where controlling the citizens would be really easy. The city's lay out would make it so much easier to force the citizens so stay in their apartments. To me this just sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.
@@oxey_ but what about the people in the service sector? The one's who clean, work in shops and keep the whole city running will probaly also have to live there, I assume.
The point you brought up about how open cities tend to be excellent grounds for the cross pollination of ideas struck me. It might be something that the designers themselves are aware of. It's virtually impossible to separate the politics of the region from a project like this, and I can't help but think that attempting to stifle that cross pollination might be part of the goal.
You captured all my concerns here perfectly. These are the questions I asked myself too, especially the devastating effects of the mirror to the natural habitat and energy requirements for cooling. My question is, if we, the ordinary people can ask ourselves these questions and identify the pitfalls in the design, why haven't the experts involved in this project identified this? But then again, money and power living unchecked will always lead to disaster - like building on of the tallest building in the world (Burj Khalifa, Dubai) and then having to collect sewage using trucks afterwards, when designing a sewage system should've been the first thing on the blueprint.
I imagine the experts involved in the project are probably very much aware of all these problems, but in Saudi Arabia led by MBS, that's not important. No need to say how foolish it is: let it work its multi-billion way through until it shows for itself how ridiculous it is as you feed your children and perhaps get to do some interesting and creative things in your job, even if the end result is a fiasco.
@@arbbd751 as someone who’s a certified ordinary person, I can confirm that the design, although it lured me with the fancy graphics and idealistic concept, was still troubling to me considering the fact that most of the stuff shown hasn’t been invented yet and it takes a looong time to ensure that something works smoothly, or if it works at all. Plus, it just looks like a normal city forced in between two walls. Based on my experience as a city dweller, I don’t think we even mastered normal cities just yet, let alone this thing.
@@isntitrich000 It doesn't work on a practical level, like capsule tower in japan, things too tightly integrated are very expensive to maintain or update. Iphone vs PC design.
When I first saw the announcement of this project, I was really surprised at all the positive media they got. Honestly being an Architect, we have always learned that organic growth always happens when things are spread across, not in a linear form. The Line according to me is a disastrous design.
@@dxfault576 I'm not that bright, please explain me how are they different? People invented them to solve problems like transport and communication, LINE is trying to solve: "how to have a city of 7 million people with zero air polution and zero traffic problems" If LINE solves those problems it's a pretty big deal if we consider that world's best minds are all in agreement that we must stop air polution ASAP. Maybe there are better ways than this ofc, countries should start competing in their eco friendly cities all over the globe. I just can't see why is this project "bad", why wouldn't we look at it with some optimism? Maybe because it's too east for us?
I am very impressed by the quality of this video, not just the presentation material but also the critical opinion on this project from an engineering, archiectural, and political point of view.
The first thing I'm thinking of is the amount of birds that will be killed by these horrible mirrors. It makes me sad. I'm glad you're talking about the environmental impact of this monstrousity. I hope it doesn't get built at all.
@@tecknodragonthis thing is going to be 170 km long (100+ miles). Assume the guy who said that was watching for birds literally 24/7, then yes, this horrible thing would bother "only" a thousand birds a day (as a low estimate of 3 birds per day * 170 km * 2 because I'm assuming the guy can see up to 250 meters into either direction). That may not be massive but there are other animals in the desert.
Science fiction typically depict cities in a dome interconnected to each other. Even building cities in a dome to shields to shield themselves from the harsher environment is going to be extremely challenging. In that sense, Singapore Changi Jewel is a miniaturized version of a city in a dome.
It's so funny to see all these "CO2 free" city project just not mentioning how are they going to extract and bring trillion dollars worth of materials in a freaking desert.
@@ko-Daegu Even if this was not in a desert. The simple fact to build a city of this scale from scratch today is an ecological aberration. And this cost is pretty much never mentioned in those « utopic ecofriendly » cities…
@@ramelio2662 they said it's a trillion dollar, anyway it's their money I don't really give a fuck to be honest if they made it I will probably go and check it out but never really live their
Another great video! I live in San Francisco, where the transit system is historically designed to focus the whole region on downtown San Francisco (though cars and highways make it easier to "metabolize" realities like San Jose rising to have double SF's population and "reverse commuting" to satellite corporate compounds throughout the region). What the Saudi Prince should be briefed upon is that San Francisco is ALREADY a case study in the problems of over-emphasizing a tiny version of "Neom" with it's existing transit system today, right now, and observable maintenance and usage. That's the four stops of overlapping "MUNI" and "BART" systems in a small corridor just around 2 (not 170!) kilometers long as the "heart" of the transit plan for the whole area. There are TWO tracks for MUNI and TWO tracks for BART passing through this section of the entire area.. and if there is a problem at any of these four stations... transit is slowed or stopped for the City and the region at subsurface and this "pinch point." IF there is an accident, such as a suicide on one track, then one system is immediately crippled to 50% capacity using a single track for reduced train traffic in both directions. An earthquake, in theory, could make both tracks disrupted or unsafe and kill the entire flow indefinitely. In my opinion, this has already shown to be a disaster, propped up by emergency deployment of surface buses (less efficient and, in the case of BART, impossible to replicate the efficiency of up to 10 packed train carriages every five minutes or so in rush hour) and then the surface buses further congest the street level and bridge pinch points so it's not an actual competitive alternate use case, it's just how you rescue people from a system that has no other redundancy which can help. Even without tragedy, how do you maintain or upgrade the system without massive inconvenience? In my thirty years of living in SF, routine maintenance has meant that evening or overnight service just goes away for months at a time, which creates not only social but economic woes for the central area.. in NEOM, there would be curfews or "just walk 40 km to see your uncle if you must" scenarios! Again, the ONLY reason this is tenable is that the foolishly unitary section of the transit system is LESS than two kilometers and we have surface level options. The contrasting example is NYC, where there are so many lines, that an entire line can be CLOSED and only the people served only by that radial line are impacted, but the majority of people can adapt immediately by moving to another subway or train line and then lesser inconvenience of surface transit in outlying, less dense areas. By building a system that emphasizes a single, unitary and unified system, when (not if, but when, as all things fail, or get compromised by crime or terrorism) that slips, people will be forced to walk MUCH more than "five minutes' to get to friends or family up to 170 km away! Thanks for reading!
@@hazemhn91 Sounds nice even if not based on reality. These look great in YT videos or presentations but most planned cities work out like Brasilia, Lavasa, Santander and I imagine Nusantara. As a general rule, the more detailed the plan, the greater chance of failure.
@@smb123211 who decides what's reality and what's not? Most extraordinary plans seems unreal, yet I see lots of them worldwide! Regarding your general rule, this is not General rather it is exceptional. Unleash yourself from the system bro! have a nice one :)
Not only in the way that it looks in nature/where it's located, but just the way it's structured and how it feels... seems like more of a jail or a micro-managed living space rather than a city of "innovation".
That is what the international ruling class of elites want for us. It's why they fly in private jets all over the world on a weekly basis while telling us we need '15 minute cities' and condemning cars. Damn the globalists, the technocrats, the autocrats, and the WEF.
@@timothypage252 Yep , I wonder is it because Saudi Arabia doesn't support a woman with a beard ? or a man wearing a skirt ? or is it because it doesn't support western agendas ? nah I think you call it a jail because you feel free when your country allows that.
It a kind of proyect related to religion where people used to be inside with little or nothing of freedom. There arab countries are so extreme for things that make people be dominated. They need invest money in education and transform resources into something they can get money from.
As someone who's lived in that country, I can see how this idea came about. It was hot and someone was like, "Wouldn't it be so much nicer if everything was inside?" It's a thought everyone has when it's 120°F or higher 🙆♂️
i find it surprising that no one is talking about quality of life. the people that would live in this project would be wealthy, considering how much money would go into it and the advanced technology, meaning they already live in a pretty good position. why would they willingly move into the line? a place where you are essentially trapped in a confined space, everything looks the same, you loose touch with the real outside world, you loose the conception of size, etc. now i know that these technological inventions are supposed to improve quality of life, but i am having an insanely hard time imagining that no one will go completely mental after being trapped in this box for a considerable amount of time.
@@csababobalo8692 but it doesn't save anything. it actually causes more damage than good, didn't you watch the video where she listed dozens of reasons as to why this build will be detrimental to nature and wildlife in the country? it makes a line 500m tall, cutting the country into two separate pieces, with no way to cross except for animals with wings (keep in mind that most bird fly at 150m height except for during migrations), who most of will probably fly into the wall and die.
Its being built so that the people in-charge can keep everyone in-LINE. Its so blatantly obvious they are probably giggling and rubbing their hands together, old-school villain style.
"At first I thought it was a Metaverse project" - What a great idea! They should create the city in VR now, as a test run, so people can really visualize what life in this city might be like.
Then it's gonna cost more than the building the actual city. 3d graphics, modeling & programming aren't that cheap. That's why Christopher Nolan, the director of the movie "Tenet" crashed an actual plane in to the airport, instead of using computer graphics.
@@name8099 No, it won't. They are pricing this project at 1 Trillion dollars. Even if it costs 1 Billion to make it in VR, which is a completely outrageous price for a VR project, it would be one thousand times cheaper to build than the actual project.
@@name8099 Yes one Billion dollars is way too much, that's what he said, which means it will be thousands of times cheaper to build this in VR than in real life. You might want to try to read things more than once before you respond. Just some constructive criticism.
I’m not an architect or engineer, but even I can see major issues with this design. My first thought (which you touched on in the video) was how is it going to interact with the wind? Wind travelling perpendicular to the structure would apply massive amount’s of force onto the building and wind travelling parallel would turn the gap in the middle into a 170km wind tunnel. Funnily they keep advertising to me on twitter, if they’re hoping for an investor they’ll be disappointed to hear that I have no money.
The biggest one is simply geometry. Making the city linear means that you're immensely increasing travel time if you have to leave your 'block'. Which can be ameliorated to an extent by each block being self contained . . . But it's better to retain flexibility than to plan for rigidity.
"if they’re hoping for an investor they’ll be disappointed to hear that I have no money" yes, the richest country in the world needs investors lol keep smiling buddy
@@CASSEMELLO not even in the top 10 list of the richest countries, and yes of course they need investors for any project like this, don't kid yourself.
@@yazeedalfrog you sound butthurt You clearly don't understand the fact that the Saudi government itself is funding the project- you don't have to agree with me, but you clearly lack a lot of info regarding this project and/or you probably hate Saudis (I'm sensing that in your comment) either way it's non of my business. Just thought what you sound silly and stupid. Sorry.
I was born and raised in the Midwest and now live in Colorado: lots of elbow room, lots of big skies, lots of nature. Within a half an hour or so from my home I can be alone out on a mountain trail with all kinds of fauna and flora. I could not live there. Watching the video I was feeling claustrophobic and wondering where the doors are to escape. Then, escape to what? The desert? I worked for a guy who was from the Midwest and was stationed on Hawaii during his military service. He talked about "island fever," the claustrophobia and need to escape. He said after being there awhile there were times he felt that living on Hawaii was like being in prison. I think living in the "line city" would be a prison for me.
Especially when you can just look at the concept for a few minutes and realize it's needlessly complicated and overall stupid. Staying neutral after that would be hard to me, I'd clearly have a bias.
@@Bobsonomatic it’s a line, so what happens when one part of it is cut off? 500m tall mirrors? It’s the middle of a desert (well, they don’t have anywhere else to build I guess), oh yeah and it cuts off all animals from either side
@@Bobsonomaticby design it leaves very little room for error. I’m a regular city a rail line or mayor street gets blocked and a region of the city becomes less accessible but you can still get in through secondary roads. If a point on the line’s metro/driveable street gets blocked for some reason then transportation gets completely interrupted from either side beyond that point. Also emergencies like a fire become more dangerous since it can completely interrupt all transportation through that point including just walking
The line is the only network topography where every location is a single point of failure. This is what happens when you plan a city without involving any city planner.
@@midasredblade236 Well, the thing with totalitarian regime is, the desire of the leader can overthrow the common sense of the experts and lead to total disaster. Now clearly, a country with that many enemies shouldn't build the most vulnerable city design possible. You only need to cut one point to break the city in half. Also, every new section increases the load on the transit system on the side for external exchange and in the middle for internal transit. Imagine how packed the wagons will be at peak hour in the middle of the line.
@@sfisabbt There's a reason cities are built more like a circle than a line. The line would make a bit more sense if the ends touched instead, for obvious reasons.
@@sfisabbt Absolutly, during the last steps toward nuclear power in North Korea (around 2005), Kim Jong Un invested full power to finishing the job instead of feeding the people
Wouldn’t every tree (in the graph-theoretic sense, i.e. a connected network without any cycles) have this property? A failure at any point except at the ends of branches would disconnect parts of it.
Thankfully, as said, they'll never finish it Unfortunately, this means tons of money yet again dumped into the sea by a lousy dictator with great aspirations and a narrow mind.
Even without the proper education, I could see that The Line was more of a vanity project than an actually well-planned, well-designed city that would take its inhabitants' needs in mind while being sustainable. This video confirmed all my reservations
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sustainable is boring, arab countries need to shine with material things to attract people, things that can't be found elsewhere.
One of my standards for whether or not I would want to settle in a city is how sure I can be that it will still be healthy when my children want to have children. No city is perfectly stable, but I can think of no worse place to leave a legacy than a place with no precedent, no natural reason for existing, and single points of failure for everything. This is not a city that could recover from a disaster. Think of Mumbai, New York, London, Cairo; these are all places that have been settled, under many different names, for thousands of years. In three thousand years, there will still be people living where Mumbai is today. In three thousand years, archaeologists will puzzle over the stupidity of the line city-if they ever find it at all.
@@athenashah-scarborough858 Mexico city is a perfect example of how change can make a city better off dead. It has so many problems that basically all came about after the Spanish used it in ways it wasn't designed for, culminating in skyscapers on slowly sinking foundations.
The most important question apart from the thousands of "how" questions is the question of: "WHY". If you don't know how to spend your money, there are a million better things to blow it on than a giant futuristic project in the middle of nowhere.
Pretty much sums up the whole Gulf area too. Instead of actually fixing issues around the world and in the middle east they think it's a smarter idea to make supercars police cars and spend billions of dollars in the stupidest architect projects around the world, just to "show off".
@Josef K As a Saudi I wanna tell you that is our money, SAUDI MONEY, We can burn it if we want to, Just watch and cry, western tears are so damn delicious. Lol.
I've heard a lot of 'macro' problems with this project, but you brought up a lot of the 'micro' ones that somehow got overlooked - like small roads for cycling, a huge wall blocking wildlife, and COVID in elevators.
They’ll just have to evolve without cycling the way we think of it. Also let’s face it if a disease springs up inside there everybody’s done. At the same time it would be a lot easier to contain than on the outside, but as we all know diseases don’t seem to like being contained all that much
The grocery thing can easily be solved with delivery systems. So you don't have very into an elevator or go downstairs. Like dumbwaiters are pretty easy and delivery bots are becoming a thing already. The wildlife thing is an easy fix too with gaps in the sections. The cycling thing is also straightforward with bike lanes or sections, like what some college campuses; areas you can ride and areas you have to walk the bike, or traffic lights for pedestrians and cyclist if needed
For wildlife there are plans to assist them. For covid and other viruses , the city will be so advanced that it will be able to disinfect them quickly once detected
Might sound weird, but this project kinda scares me. I mean change is pretty scary so maybe it’s not weird, but it gives the vibe of every “utopia turned dystopian” movie. I think it has some good design ideas, but as you highlighted, there’s a lot of concerns. It also seems best fit for occasional stays rather than residential areas, but that might be a personal/biased opinion.
It both upsets ,& concerns me that the Prince cares NOTHING for the tribes of people who have been there for so many hundreds of years. Also what about the wildlife as this channel has also pointed out? NO CONCERN WHATSOVER!
Well, just so you know, this is not gonna work. It depends on technologies that do not exist and are unlikely to ever work. So, what will happen is that MBS will sink a lot of money and depending on where the oil price is when this all comes tumbling down, itwill destabilize his government and might be how the Monarchy ends.
wrong. this to me seems a jealous statement only .. just for not being creative .. my concern is the saying the city is built around the people .. when saudi arabia has its challenges with and about the human rights .. that is the ethical stand .. i would like to know what the people in there would or could produce ..
One of the things Mohammed bin Salman shares with the techbros of Silicon Valley is how enamored they seem to be with utopian visions that require all-new, top-down construction *somewhere else* (that never *quite* deliver on the public good aspect with which they sell it) while ignoring the horrific problems that already exist right outside their own windows.
How simple it really is to look at some pictures and generalize them..these pictures represent small areas and not the majority, just as before you look at the faults of others, fix your faults first..look at the problem of the homeless in the streets, why doesn't your government help them? Why is your crime rate much higher than ours?
@@ghost_mall The problem is it wouldn't feed Mohamed Bone Saw's huge ego and he would show some interest in his own people. While promoting this insane fantasy of his at the expense of his country, and pitching it to idiotic and naive investors while completely discarding the populace is so much more rewarding for his self gratification. This project makes no sense whatsoever and creates new problems instead of solving the existing ones. It is basically the brainchild of someone who has zero education in urban planning and architecture and zero regard whatsoever to those who will live there (if anyone does). It is absolutely certain it will be a massive failure.
A 170 km city designed around a high speed rail line is the answer to a question no one is asking. Hard to imagine there are 9 million people who would want to live in: 1) a modular city; 2) in a desert country; 3) with a restrictive government. Probably dreamed up buy some megalomaniac with too much money who's never been told "NO". Great video though!
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Jamal Khashoggi called it out as nonsense on Saudi TV. That’s why you don’t get to see unbiased videos. (edit: just got to the part of the video that mentions it)
@@RobJT bringing up political topics and indicating that this project was just to fix the reputation, if she stayed away from politics, the video would have been better, especially when you tend to hear one side of the story.
This takes the expression "a one-track mind" to a whole new level. I imagine it'll be hard to think outside of the box, considering that it's a literal Line.
It's just another "hype thing" which tells how little even educated and so-called smart people understand about basic stuff, same goes for things hyperloop
The reason that cities end up being roughly circular unless there are no external factors forcing a different shape is to make it so that the important amenities are as close as possible to all residents. By making NEOM a line you create a situation where someone would have to travel 85km to work, another 85km to see their friends afterwards and then 170km to return home. Even if the transit system were to work flawlessly and all power came from renewables this is still a significant ecological cost that could be greatly reduced by having a traditionally structured city which promoted walking and cycling over large roads for cars.
exactly, being able to travel in 2 dimensions allows for a lot more than just 4 directions, it's every direction in between as well, as opposed to this where things are only to your left and right.
No, you misunderstand: that’s a feature not a bug. You see, the rich obviously deserves the nice, airy Red Sea penthouses. All the imported “guest” laborers get stuffed into the eastern caves. It keeps the undesirables in their places.
@@RobertLeeAtYT Exactly. "Everyone would be within 5 minutes of everything they need.". Because the classes are divided, professions and status are life long, and everyone is placed where the monarchy wants them.
When I look at these structures the first thing that strikes my mind is how oppressive these walls look from the inside. You see only a tiny sliver of the sky. And at the ground, it must be 10X worse. There is nothing that would convince me to live in such a place. It is the fuel of dystopian novels. I prefer the ideas from Jacques Fresco or Buckminster Fuller. I am definitely no architect but when I look at Fresco's ideas there are already several advantages. First, they are circular and therefore don't cut through so much space like the line. You have much more degree of freedom to move around. Circular transit systems AND those that go from the edge to the center. Less dependency on building vertical, therefore more freedom for movement impaired people and fewer chances to spread sicknesses. And really important is that your view of the sky doesn't get obstructed. Probably Jacques's ideas have their own sets of problems. Otherwise, we would see those more prominently. But at least they don't crumble just from a surface glance like The Line does.
The 'line' design was probably chosen to minimize the energy and other costs associated with maintaining a habitable environment in the desert. I think heat and moisture dissipation are much more manageable with this design. Designing a city involves allot of tradeoffs (multi-objective optimization) hence we really need more in-depth information about the design to really judge it.
@@Gyvulys The people building this thing are major narcissistic freaks, but the people getting butt hurt over this are also racist narcissistic freaks. It's just terrible people on both sides.
Well it’s a year later. They are building the line currently. I don’t think they spent enough time thinking about this shit, cause I think it’s gonna be a disaster.
As middle eastern Architect who lived in that area, the nature of people and the culture will refuse this vertically and compacted way of living, we love the ultimate open horizon and have as much space as we can from neighbors to keep the privacy, it’s no for the us as Arab
As single Saudi architect, you don't have the right the say "the people will refuse this vertically city" please just talk about yourself especially when you're not saudi, is there some problems with the design? Yes and they're searching for solutions, there's a lot for inventions and concepts the people were afraid of or they don't have the courage to take the first step and discouraged the people working on it, but when it see the light they changed their mind and maybe it made there lives much easier
I think he seem more mature than you man😂😂 you are the one that who can’t take it. Also as a Saudi I see you don’t have the right to talk about the people in there and their desire. So don’t take it personally it’s just respond to what you said. no hassle good luck man.
Omg you must be so smart to predict such thing! Government is investing billions of money to build this project and they hire hundreds of architects and engineers who are hundreds of times more educated than you. But yeah sure, you have right to state your unworthy opinion as a random “Middle Eastern Architect”.
@@G47-e9r That's the problem with having a king that can make crazy decisions like that without anyone objecting. All you need to do is to give this one person a good pitch.
when you saw journalists to death in foreign countries and the US defends you doing it because you buy arms from them a dumb looking "city" is not that surprising to emerge (saudi arabia, the mother land of silly ideas)
I feel a concept like 'The Circle' or "The Spiral' could take all the benefits of this design and mitigate a lot of the issues. You could put something epic in the centre like a fusion reactor or rocket launch pad - all violate health and safety but 10/10 visuals and atmosphere!!
Traditional cities are build like that: a circle. Now, I wouldn’t want to live a compact city. The most efficient is when everyone has SPACE to move around without everyone bumping each other’s way.
im so ded. quite literally, i mean- i live at the epicenter. The fusion reactor blocks my view at the window! All of us have stage 4 cancer from the radiation... but yay!! aestheticc
Oh yeah, build a city shaped like a circle and then just put a rocket in the middle of it. Imagine watching the view from your home in 'the circle'- huge flames erupting from the rocket, everything catching fire, AND THEN the rocket launches and you get LITTERALY launched into the afterlife along with everyone and everything else 🤩🔥not very practical, I admit, but at least you're getting an epic view in your last moments
I think the two dimensional design is inherently dystopian. Think of how divided snowpiercer was with more and more luxurious compartments the further you go. Then there's also the fact that light mostly reaches the apartments further up the wall which in turn makes me think of Bladerunner or some parts of Star Wars where the rich live up in high-rises and the poor populate dark,dingy and unsafe spaces at the very bottom
This design could be scaled up, run line cities in parallel. It would start looking like 'the matrix' at that point. You could install trillions of human batteries on a planet that way.
@@peterbelanger4094 yeah exactly. All good cities are somewhat chaotic because that's how human settlements naturally expand, choosing the best spots and saving the prettiest parts of land for parks and what not etc.Of course there's not much in terms of nature in the desert but the artificial, prefabricated feel is certainly not inviting. I can only imagine how uncanny the city will feel in the begging (or the end) of the line's existence when 3/4ths of the houses are empty and the town is completely desolate
0:23 to travel from one end to the other end in 20 minutes, if there are no intermediate station stops, then the vehicle would have to travel at more than 510 km/hr. If station stops occur at say 500m intervals, and allowing say 2 seconds for people to get on and off per stop, then the vehicle would have to quickly accelerate to around 3000 km/hr in between stops. I think many of the passengers would end up being injured or un-alived by the time they got to the end of the city, due to the g forces involved.
2 seconds?While I never timed it exactly the average getting on/off time on a subway is closer to 20 seconds. This doesn't include situations of people being slower than average or that you might have a crowd of people getting on. 2 seconds?That's the time needed to have only the first person get on/off. The one right next to the door.
This channel is gold. Your research, holistic understanding of a topic, and the way you neatly and gracefully present your video essays is really captivating. Your videos are truly unique, insightful, and of course educational. You're doing an amazing job in making them. Thank you! I'm an anthropology major and I've taken a few classes in city planning/metropolitan studies, and it was eye opening to see that how so many planners, governments around the world, and ordinary people like me overlook the way cities are designed, whereas it affects our daily lives directly. It's so important for us all to think and give voice to our thoughts about the space we live in and how it's designed because it inevitably affects our psychology, quality of life, ecology, and environment.
Totally agree. A beautifully rounded review looking at the many factors that need to be considered before making any progress on a project of this scale and importance. I really appreciate your cool & considered approach to your videos.
As an architectural designer (I cannot say architect because still progressing on the license 😅), I would say I agree with your last phrase of yours, "Architecture seems to promote political agenda", which is kinda true in my opinion. Many countries are trying to "rebuild" the city, including my country, Indonesia, which is currently progressing toward a new capital city. Even in my country, the government used competition for all Indonesian architects to seek the best design, and still the selected winner seems to be chosen by sustainable concept or something. But in reality, my girlfriend's thesis research found that the selected design abandoned the existing community, which contradicts the idea of sustainability itself. With the fact around the world like this, maybe people, or architects association itself must rethink how people/architects can intervene with this, by the law, ethics code, or something. I don't know the answer but thank you for raising this question. Great video, great explanation. Keep going!
this is so hilarious to me because we already know what cities designed for humans look like... look at any city developed before the industrial revolution. Cities grew organically based on how people were already settling and living before they were redesigned for industry. Not saying that those are necessarily the MOST efficient, but it seems like a more logical starting point than something this artificial. Also... densely packed verticality, no light on the lower levels, hotbed for spreading disease, "free zone" with its own taxes and weird governmental exclusion.... is it just me or are they trying to remake the Walled City of Kowloon??
The principle seems to be: why go with a good existing idea when you can invent a bad new idea? But really, the 'city designed for humans' is obviously marketing waffle - this isn't designed to be environmentally friendly or pleasant to live in, it's designed to satiate Mohammed bin Salman's ego. It's an autocrat's pet project, just like a hundred other Big Expensive Objects all over the world that were designed at tremendous waste in money and lives solely because of some dictator or other's fixation on 'leaving their mark'.
listen to how s2pid you sounded. long before the industrial revolution, people live alongside the river, along the main roads and also by the sea shore. those are all based on the concept of straight lines. so s2pid...
But organic cities are not efficient at all because of inadequate planning. Allot of these old cities are bad at maintaining waste and have infrastructure that's falling apart.
@@primaryesthethicinstincts4832 lmao and they had the best architectures and urban planners in the world (supposedly) and came up with an even worse solution that they won’t be able to fix once they’re bankrupt.
My new #1 fave channel, so informative, expertly scripted, narrated, edited - you and your small team can be very proud Dami! On this topic, so many valid points highlighting the insured wealth and misguided ego driven priorities. The potential death toll of migrant workers on The Line will put Qatar stadium builds in the shade. Grotesque. Keep up the great work, you’re a true YT star 😄
If the train breaks, you use the Rail Replacement Bus Service!! As the trains break, the other trains run from the ends up to thee point of failure and then back. As the main point of this place is to live 5 minutes walk from work and shops etc there isnt much need to travel all the way along
I would love to see a very expensive city project like this, with all the cool 3D atmospheric stuff, except maybe in the shape of a square instead of a line... Maybe there is a reason why cities aren't lines.
They kind of were lines for a while - sort of. Towns clustered around train stations, which were along a 'line' of sorts. It's important to have space to adapt and grow though, and a rigid 3d structure like this doesn't have that. Plus lifts are dumb, if your town plan requires able bodied people rely on lifts you've made a mistake.
@@shraka The 'line' design really helps with minimize the energy and other costs associated with maintaining a habitable environment in the desert. I think heat and moisture dissipation are much more manageable with this design. Designing a city involves allot of tradeoffs (multi-objective optimization) and we need more detailed information to really judge the design.
@@primaryesthethicinstincts4832 it could still have been bent into a much smaller length like circular, square or zig zag, also it's extremely tall, and it has no way to walk between the floors, these are a few of the easy to solve problems taking in acount that you're right
if someone want to launch a huge bomb on any city - the destruction will be greater the more city built inside the circle - the more it is more like a line - the less level of destruction will be by standard bomb
You've hit it on the nail with the last part, so thank you for that. In terms of going deeper in the conversation, to me it also echoes this dilemma of top-down vs bottom-up. Here is clearly a very top-down project, from a top that doesn't really know what it's doing, but that's just basically decided that this is the solution to all problems, so it must be the solution to all problems. So of course the project has the grandeur of a single vision, and is inspiring in its purity of vision (it's a line! And a mirror! You couldn't make it any purer). But on the other hand, it's trying to fit human living in it rather than being built around humans. At first glance, unrestricted human development might look messy, disorganised, but there is a strange richness in organic development: people know what they want, what they like, and what they don't, and they change their environment accordingly. I believe there's more to learn in studying the patterns created by that rather than in trying to fix the issues a simplistic vision creates. But that's something that requires to listen to people, get down in the messiness of everyday life, and work up with complex concepts that require a careful balance in how they interact. And that's something that the Saudi governance is unable and unwilling to do, most definitely.
I agree with this, it looks visually impressive in concept and there are some interesting ideas at play but would it actually work in the practical sense? Maybe the concept should be tried on a smaller scale first, like sone unique boutique hotel, before trying to carry out a whole city?
You explain it well. I love it when you brought up about failed cities, projects and issues in a structures in building a city that it should be resolved or be attended to. Really love your insights on this.
