Why NEOM The Line Is DOOMED To Fail

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman shocked many with the recent start of NEOM's construction, The Line. The Line is a linear city in which its residents are sandwiched between twin mirrored skyscrapers built in the middle of the desert. NEOM has three greater megaprojects initiatives: Oxagon, Trojena, and The Line. All are Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 futuristic visions that will supposedly redefine a new way of urban living. However, there are many problems that MBS and NEOM The Line Saudi Arabia are challenged with. We're diving in with our top reasons why The Line is doomed to fail.
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0:00 The Future Is Here
0:41 Background
1:35 Problem 4: Technology Does Not Exist Yet
5:20 Problem 3: Human Rights Violation
7:37 Problem 2: Ecological Disaster
9:25 Problem 1: Inefficient and Expensive Design
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@bobnat2 Год назад

I lived in the UAE for two decades starting in 1999. I had made the acquaintance of an American who was the project manager for a new hospital complex. He gave a brilliant assessment of how the government approached development. He said, "The Sheikhs fly over New York or London in a helicopter and say, We want all of that in our country, those beautiful buildings and streets and stores. A consultant with them says that the infrastructure is immense and very costly. They reply, We don't care about that just give us the buildings." He nailed it.

@Blaze-qe7yg Год назад

The Royal family would never live in those glorified projects.

@onetwo2434 11 месяцев назад

Many of these Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia come off as that socially awkward family that happen to one day win the lottery (oil) and then started throwing insane money on materialistic things to impress the people around them. It is rather strange .... like they are throwing all this money towards modern vanity projects to show off their wealth but underneath it shows their inferiority complex because they believe they cannot attract tourism by showing their genuine authentic culture and traditions to the world. Classical Islamic architecture is beautiful. The most amazing things I saw in the UAE was not the Burj Khalifa (which looks like a giant toothpick) or those lame sky scrapers ... it was the Mosques. Build something that combines the classic and make it modern.

@bobnat2 11 месяцев назад

I agree wholeheartedly. A major concern and complaint of the locals is they are losing their culture, which is true. However, they fully embrace the materialistic culture of the West. I can't blame them for wanting more comfortable lives. When I arrived there in 99 the place was interesting in many ways, it was unique. As I watched it develop over the years it became a less interesting place to be. It was a great experience to watch and participate in the building of a country, yet sad at the same time.@@onetwo2434

@gregducati999 10 месяцев назад

@@onetwo2434 i agree and i would rather live in oman then dubai because of this they mantained their tradational architecture

@hanskostka6788 10 месяцев назад

...the project manager for a new hospital complex.... did they ever finish the hospital and if yes, how long took it !

@francesconicoletti2547 10 месяцев назад

One thing playing Civilisation has taught me is that cities grow where you have people. People settle where you have agriculture or industry. You start by building up the industrial and agricultural base the people come and you build somewhere to house them. Cities don’t exist as achievements in the middle of nowhere. The one exception is artificial capital cities that can be built first and then move the government bureaucracy into them but that doesn’t appear to be what this is.

@johnmarks227 10 месяцев назад

That's a good comparison I've also played Civ. (1 thru 4). One thing though, money changes many things.

@artmosley3337 10 месяцев назад

The USA has many linear cities .. Strips of developed properties along highways.. where 1-2 miles off of them is all farmland or undeveloped wilderness… when the New Highways were built, much like the railroads, if they didn’t come close or go right through the lil towns, they died.. look at highway 70 from St. Louis to Denver… every exit (almost) is a gas station, fast food restaurants , truck stops and manufacturing, distribution centers.. same thing with every other highway in rural America…

@bocahdongo7769 10 месяцев назад

@@artmosley3337even then it still has expansion laterally, espescially on junction Only cemented the point that city will expand laterally if you give even a slight chance

@jackwatsonepic626 10 месяцев назад

Seriously " who thought that this was a good idea to spend £500 billion on 🤔🇬🇧

@fladave99 10 месяцев назад

Over priced she box condos, public (puke and fenty filled) transport. Cant wait Last year in Chicago 280 THOUSANDS buses were CANCELLED. Average wait was 1 HOUR for a ride to work. Enjoy your wait in paradise

@kitpong1777 Год назад

NEOM is what you get when money is no object and the chief sponsor has little or no accountability if it doesn't succeed.

@sheldondrake8935 Год назад

and is an incredibly backwards narcissist with delusions of significance. AND THE VULGAR.

@brock4372 Год назад

Ah, the Republican dream. Doing stupid shit and not being held accountable

@gilcraftsource 10 месяцев назад

Just like the war in Ukraine... Where america pours in billions everyday without any accountability

@thelammas8283 10 месяцев назад

I agree, but then I thought that about Dubai as well.

@nomimalone7520 10 месяцев назад

@@thelammas8283plenty of failures there too.

@martynwarren3192 10 месяцев назад

As a countryside dweller in the UK. Living there seems like all my worst nightmares rolled up into one. Just going to London for the day makes me appreciate the peace and tranquility I live in. Just seems to me they’ll be living like rats down a drain.

@mukkah 10 месяцев назад

Bru I want to live in your forest... I'm very quiet, polite and keep to myself ^_^'

@SVW1976 10 месяцев назад

Agreed.

@rumbleman65 9 месяцев назад

Same - ive just come back from bangkok and its too much city - this is just horrific

@Altinget 9 месяцев назад

@@mukkah it's better to live where the trees are outside the house...🤷‍♂️😂

@worldlyviewer Год назад

if it was a mile wide maybe, but 200 meters? thats crazy, it will feel so claustrophobic that people will go mental after living there a few months. with no roads leading in or out, it looks more like some kind of prison city complex.

@JCDenton3 10 месяцев назад

I bet that's what this will be repurposed into when it fails, a super massive prison where the Saudis can be paid to take other countries criminals. At least it'll generate revenue that way I guess...

@SirHawk-px4nr 5 месяцев назад

true, that was what i was thinking about, it will be so squashed up, but the rent with still rise, it will be even worser than hongkong or stuff

@donamie2808 3 месяца назад

Your eyesight will become poor day by day. Coz the distance tou can see only 200 meters whole your life. What about growing kids eysight???

@elizabethkeatley5010 10 месяцев назад

when I first heard of this project, my first thought was "who's going to keep all that glass clean?" and then I thought about keeping such a thing AC'd in the middle of a desert, and what would happen--as it inevitably would--when there was a power outage.

@annakeye 10 месяцев назад

@@JesusSavesTheDay96 They'll probably truck the sewage out. Seriously. That's what they do for the Burj Khalifa. I'm not saying it's a good idea but that's what they do. To where they truck it? I have no idea and would hate to even think. _edit addendum_ I'm aware that the UAE is not the KSA for anyone reading.

@jarls5890 10 месяцев назад

@@annakeye On the days Burj truck their sewage out there are long long lines of trucks to get the job done - sometimes making traffic jams in the area. Burj is rated to support max 10k people. NEOM is rated to hold...9 million! That is NINE HUNDRED times the number of trucks needed for Burj!

@annakeye 10 месяцев назад

@@jarls5890 Thanks for that. I've actually just been doing some research on the various Arabic nations and the KSA has only 133 wastewater treatment centres to service nearly 36 million people. Water is becoming even more scarce and the amount of water that something like Bin Salman's vanity projects will be astronomical. The world does not need these hideous places. Unfortunately, they will continue working on them until they run out of steam/money. 'The Line' being one of the most ludicrous of all of these vanity projects. PS: Assuming they build wastewater treatment facilities for 'The Line' (or perhaps I should call it Bin Salman's limp erection), to have enough water to make it work is near impossible. And of course 900x trucks you speak of will almost certainly be stinking diesel trucks full of stinking peoples crap taken to a stinking hole in a once pristine landscape. Welcome to Dystopia.

@robynguinn8941 10 месяцев назад

Not to mention it's a 170 km wall preventing desert animals from crossing, possible migratory routes destroyed.

@noppornwongrassamee8941 10 месяцев назад

Trucked? Using what roads? The place isn't planned to have any!

@ismailnyeyusof3520 Год назад

The line should be built as a one mile, or maybe 2 km to come up with a neat number, and observed for a couple of years to understand everything before proceeding further. It’s very likely going to fail badly even then but at least the financial impact is reduced and a proper city canbe built around it.

@advancedomega Год назад

That is the logical, sane plan. We are talking about the über-rich and über-powerful monarch here, who sounds neither logical nor sane.

@kewintaylor7056 Год назад

100 meters is the most Its use insane amount of money.😂

@kinkan5433 Год назад

or as a circle, which is a line that touches itself

@ch-sqpopay9949 Год назад

financial impact by the Saudis? i think they dont care, they will also after a desasterous blow have enough money 🤣

@TheTwitchyBrownGuy Год назад

I thought I heard somewhere that this is the plan, but they are carving a lot of land already so maybe they abandoned that plan

@StamfordBridge 10 месяцев назад

Mega city projects, football leagues and cups, and amusement parks: Saudi Arabia is spending trillions to try to normalise themselves among the world’s nations, but until they address human rights concerns, they’ll always be a backwater state.

@jhdsfalsjhdfjashdkhvjfldld8301 10 месяцев назад

Then by your definition the US is a pariah....

@StamfordBridge 10 месяцев назад

@@jhdsfalsjhdfjashdkhvjfldld8301 No, because arguments through false equivalences only seem convincing to children.

@bkchaitany 4 месяца назад

Correct. All moselm countries violate human rights. Women cages in burqa, treated like cattle for pleasure, no rational thinking, stone age thinking with desert age practices. MBS is trying hard to modernize Saudi. Hope he succeeds

@drewlovelyhell4892 10 месяцев назад

Like Dubai's mega projects, this is just another case of "too much money, not enough sense".

@michaelbeckerman7532 10 месяцев назад

This is literally the single WORST idea in the entire history of commercial real estate. Business schools will undoubtedly be doing case studies on this fiasco for decades to come.

@mukkah 10 месяцев назад

Not really, bruh. *Fancy project planner jingles shiny keys in front of ultra-wealthy monarch Pretty simple.

@rienkhoek4169 Год назад

Would you want to live there? 1) No 2) Hell No 3) Not if it were the last settlement on earth.

@aisqwe6089 Год назад

its not meant for living , like other overpriced overhyped shit its a money laundering scheme

@jh9391 Год назад

Prison 😵

@johnsmith-cw3wo Год назад

clearly you never saw a slum.

@drecksaukerl Год назад

ditto

@blackdeath11233 Год назад

I mean if it succeeds hell yeah

@nikkiansley1062 Год назад

It might only take 20 minutes for the train (that doesn’t exist yet) to travel the 120km but how many stops will there be? There will probably need to be a lot and that will dramatically increase the travel time from end to end. It doesn’t seem particularly well planned.

@niviamaeva Год назад

Exactly!

@stephenbanks5952 11 месяцев назад

Plus 9 million people with only one way to get around. Will the train be even usable? It will be overwhelmed. A lot of people will need to commute. If a company has a presence there the employees won't all be able to live close by, which rather ruins the idea that everything is 5 minutes walk away.

@user-oo3vz2gt6v 10 месяцев назад

What gives you the idead that this was planned in any way? Its a coke fueld fever dream thats what it is. Planning .... *lol*

@davidturpin9135 10 месяцев назад

Recently it was announced that they are scaling down the stops.... There will be only NINE. So maybe one every 15 kilometers. So some people would need to WALK (or use nonexistent air taxis?) 7.5 kilometers to the nearest train station!

@user-oo3vz2gt6v 10 месяцев назад

@@davidturpin9135 Free Electro Scooters for everybody \o/

@AnthonyGoodley Год назад

The lesson here: *Some people have way more money than common sense.*

@johnsmith-cw3wo Год назад

even more funny that estimated to be around four million Saudis, reside in slums on the outskirts of cities.

@LISLOVESTRUTH Год назад

This project scares me for many reasons. To summarize my concerns: anything man-made can fail, and when it is interconnected on a large scale like this, it means that it will fail at a colossal scale at for thousands of people. The environment is entirely artificial, and so the dependence on artificial systems is too great. If one arm of the services fails, I can see thousands of residents choking on contaminated air, or dying of heat or darkness in this long mirrored jail cell. Natural disasters could potentially severely impact this setup. Can you imagine a large earthquake that jeopardizes the structure of this city? you're looking at hundreds of metres of trains and housing crushing people to death. They say the city will promote equality. Anyone with a knowledge of real estate knows that it will do exactly the opposite. All of the properties closest to the top, or near the exits of this nightmare will be most expensive and inequality will actually become more obvious, with the poorest citizens being nearest the bottom and doing the maintenance work for the city. Forget freedom. If they want to lock down the entire city they simply need to seal the both ends or shut down the trains. I applaud the architects for imagining a different kind of city, but this seems to me like pure hell.

@TheGayRepublicanIcon Год назад

In fairness, Las Vegas is also an artificial city in the middle of the dessert and that is doing well. I think a lot will just depend on how things are executed. Legit concerns though.

@prtauvers 10 месяцев назад

Exits? Who said anything about exits??

@ane-louisestampe7939 10 месяцев назад

@@prtauvers The comment of the day! (I've lived in Saudi, so.... 😆😆)

@dan-bz7dz 10 месяцев назад

yeah this is the 21st centuary. we build earthquake safe buildings

@dan-bz7dz 10 месяцев назад

@0darknana Yeah right. Because the Chinese can't build anything of quality. They must be freaking stupid. Tell me you are a racist, without telling me you are a racist.

@NyxInfernal Год назад

I'll be more shocked if they manage to actually complete 25% of this.

@cinhh Год назад

I hear your 25% and raise you 2.5%! 😂😂😂

@orchidorio 10 месяцев назад

And I'll be disappointed that they wasted so many resources!

@Paddy007 10 месяцев назад

@@cinhh I wish 2.5 Percent of Americans had a brain.

@cardboardboxification 10 месяцев назад

@@orchidoriojust like china raising world material prices from building their Ghost cities and tofu buildings

@alanbudde8560 10 месяцев назад

I'd be impressed if they finished 2% of it functionally. The project makes no sense. As an urban planner ive been scratching my head since I read about, it just ignores everything we know about urbanization and human activity. This seems like it was designed to be a Martian moonbase or something, not for earth.

@magicmulder 10 месяцев назад

Let's not forget the "quality" of planning in other mega projects, such as Burj Khalifa requiring the waste to be transported off with a fleet of trucks because they didn't build a proper sewage system. This whole project has the whiff of "make it pointy" (General Aladeen in The Dictator)

@redemissarium 10 месяцев назад

feces quickly burried by the desert sand so no need for sewage 😅

@iterhaar701 10 месяцев назад

zal in de loop van tijd wel enorm gaan stinken... dagelijks uitwerpselen van 9 miljoen mensen begraven@@redemissarium

@RolandTHX 10 месяцев назад

Don't worry. Since this line city is connected to the ocean at both ends, they'll probably just dump the sewage directly into the ocean. It'll be fiiine.

@NR-fd9wv 4 месяца назад

@@RolandTHX you mean into their beach area, lol. tourists will love that

@SweetSassyBull 2 месяца назад

@@RolandTHXOh hell no, you are probably right 😢

@darthutah6649 Год назад

You would think that Saudi Arabia would try to finish the Kingdom Tower before starting another big project.

@iAM25SM Год назад

The kingdom tower is private company project not the government project know the difference before talking stupid- stupid .

@richardpark3054 Год назад

I'm guessing you're not a consensus-seeking, de-confrontational negotiator.

@TheCulesx Год назад

Private project vs governmental project

@fryode Год назад

@@iAM25SM Government projects are not in any better of a position than private projects are today. Investors and taxpayers have every right to be worried. Allah forbid one should lose their life savings on a pipe dream, let alone one that is "government-backed".

@fryode Год назад

Okay, my grammar was not that, at all. Maybe it's an Arabic translation? Is Arabic read from right to left, unlike English? I may have learned something new today.

@TheFinnmacool Год назад

If I HAD to live there I would immediately seek out all the maintenance corridors and secret passages for the revolution.

@TheJiminiflix 10 месяцев назад

I agree, no doubt factions would form and people would protect their area and protect access points and supplies. Imagine if one area is less provided for than others? You would have poverty and bigotry and generational attitudes like any other city. But people in the line can't really run away..they will know no other life surrounded by desert and their world view would be about protecting their faction from others. It's a Sci fi movie in the making.

@Threemore650 10 месяцев назад

Nah…. One virus and you’re all gone!

@guysabol8743 10 месяцев назад

psst only Saudis will be living there unless you gots TONS of $1K bills

@TheFinnmacool 10 месяцев назад

@@guysabol8743 Except they announced it's meant to attract talent globally.

@A2Zandeverything 10 месяцев назад

Omg i snorted my wine out my nose at this- thinking the same thing. I'd be like Katniss & majorly finding some a-hem 'service personnnel' who worked below ground as my very first task. Come to think of it I would probably BE 1 of those never hitherto seen service personell. This isn't just dystopian, it sounds like a weird sort of Panem mixed with prison & a dose of 1984......

@soloperformer5598 Год назад

I do hope that I survive long enough to see it fail, as fail it certainly will.

@taesp2484 Год назад

this aged like milk

@mohamedali-pr9rl Год назад

see you in 2030 .. remeber this comment .. we will bulit it

@AskMiko Год назад

…or see it succeed. Time will tell 😅

@youssefatlas Год назад

why the hate?

@taesp2484 Год назад

@@zevvxn it is check the updates

@verttikoo2052 11 месяцев назад

After couple of sandstorms the windows won’t be a problem 👍 Sandblasting them will take the reflection problem away 🎉

@KobaltKai5215 Год назад

Its a human ANT FARM LOL

@mckymcobvious3043 10 месяцев назад

Kowloon walled city was an actual anthill, on the other hand. it was basically the opposite of this: built completely out of necessity with zero space to waste. it had to be completely usable!

@evoi9715 10 месяцев назад

A kind of prison, because around is nothing you could go to.

@S1MH4CKR 10 месяцев назад

😂

@cherrelleg8276 10 месяцев назад

It’s actually a jail. You can get in but not out. I don’t think it won’t fail.

@PALACIO254 10 месяцев назад

The caves of steel a hive city

@tube-dude77 10 месяцев назад

I reckon the mirror wall will increase the area temperature as it reflects the sun onto the surrounding sand and stone. It will blind everything for miles & miles around it and even increase ocean temps. Also, what plan do they have for cleaning the mirror walls??

@user-oo3vz2gt6v 10 месяцев назад

Lol. You realy think anything of the Line is planed? How cute ;) Its the real life equivalent of playing a City Planer game for the first time and just give it a go to figure out what you are doing wrong and how it works. No planing involved. But also no save files or a restart button *ggg*

@BurnhardCheques 10 месяцев назад

this is like watching the 1x1 of architects fails irl

@CesarGarcia-nd5xz 10 месяцев назад

Plan? They are ar@bs/mus-1¡ms, they dont have a plan!

@Raycheetah 10 месяцев назад

Take away all their petro-wealth, and what does that leave you? These guys are *NOT* sophisticated thinkers. They also have a penchant for Gold-plated toilets. Somebody sold them this scam and walked away with some sweet consultancy fees. =9[.]9=

@MorningNapalm 10 месяцев назад

Not to mention that this is in the middle of a desert, and thus the glass will be constantly sand-blasted, and will soon be opaque.

@FrankieB-gd2ui Год назад

This is a nightmare for common emergencies like fires. At least in a typical city everything is spread out. With everything cramped together in this Line city, damage would be extensive and evacuation difficult.

@craigkdillon 11 месяцев назад

Live together. Die together.

@dan-bz7dz 10 месяцев назад

you mean like any skyscraper? ever heard of sprinklers?

@craigkdillon 10 месяцев назад

@@dan-bz7dz Many buildings with sprinklers were destroyed by fire. Sprinklers can be overwhelmed, or simply not work. In skyscrapers, water pressure is done by pumps -- so, if power fails, water pressure fails. NEOM is such a radical departure of city design, that it is likely that essential details, like emergency responses, may not be well thought out.

@dan-bz7dz 10 месяцев назад

@@craigkdillon yeah I think it's a dumb idea. but I was just addressing some of your criticism that I did not agree with. So how is the power going to be cut? Unless the fire starts in the basement where the trains are located. I don't see that happening. And there is such a thing as backup generators. and yeah, if the sprinklers don't work, then you are screwed regardless whether it's NEOM or not

@johnlarsen4526 10 месяцев назад

@@dan-bz7dz they don't have much water there to begin with. Pumping it 270 kilometers is not an option so large tanks distributed throughout the 270 kilometers. Those tanks will have to be large. I imagine a good chimney effect once a good fire gets going. I can imagine that a terrorist can do a lot of damage there and the government can imagine that too so the cameras and surveillance of the people will be a must.

@JanskiPolanski 10 месяцев назад

Visited many places and always felt that the best ones to actually spent my life have average population density and some nature to offer. Slow grown roman style towns/cities as they can be found in europe are a good example. Overcrowded places without nature i only found to be good to visit for entertainment reasons or vacationing. Neom sounds pretty much like hell to me. The billionaires will for sure guarantee that their little spot inside will be pretty. The rest of Neom will probably look like some kind of fusion between a cruise liner and a prison.

@umerzia687 Год назад

These royaals have lot of money to waste, but no money to spend.

@adopodrinje1499 Год назад

good one! totally self humiliating project. next over seas we have somali and sudan 3rd world blocked countries, where is saudis help ?or southern Yemen? totally catastrophic, and these idiots acting like kings sultans, like they own the world... 3generations ago they were camelherders there, nothing else. I even understood from people these saudi or dubai arabs: tey can not even speak Arabic correctly, they speak like in america these farmers peasents cowboys full of mistakes english, so do these arabs speak broken country white trash accent.

@gerryphilly53 10 месяцев назад

Manhattan’s population is 1.5 million, not 9 million. The population of the whole of New York City is 8.4 million. The surface area of 34 sq. km would result in 264,706 people per sq. km., or about 40 times the population density of Hong Kong. (7.4 million over 1,104 sq. km. or 6,703 per sq. km.)

@tomcruz5581 Год назад

who would want to live in a box?? even if you give me every luxurious thing you can imagine inside this box it is still a box, nothing compares to seeing the world and experience it! remember time flies fast, and life is short!

@Threemore650 10 месяцев назад

It looks like a dystopian jail nightmare.

@greggreg2263 10 месяцев назад

I don’t wanna live in a high-rise I don’t wanna live around a whole bunch of people I want to live on my own peace of the earth, touching the soil with my hands and feet❤

@lilybertine5673 10 месяцев назад

As we all should.

@unknowntimelord9557 10 месяцев назад

@@lilybertine5673tree cabin sounds cool too though

@lilybertine5673 10 месяцев назад

@@unknowntimelord9557 OMG Don't get me started, I wish i could live in a place like Lothlorien!

@EdgarJLorCa Год назад

THANKS! Why there are people Who thinks this project is possible? It's OBVIOSLY NOT!!!

@drunkenhobo8020 Год назад

@Hakim Mohamad They won't figure it out though. They'll just get hoodwinked by the next big thing after this one flops.

@Threemore650 10 месяцев назад

Probably no one wants to explain it’s impossible to man who is waving cash around like it’s as plentiful as the grains of sand that are going to cover and fill this monstrosity.

@markusgorelli5278 10 месяцев назад

"Zero gravity Urbanism" This is the first time I have heard this term used. If I understand it correctly, they basically want to create the now bulldozed - Walled city of Kowloon. Except Kowloon grew organically without any central planning. And since I am not aware of anyone studying or even being able to map the place before it was demolished, it is hard to see how they are going to be able to replicate this in shiny steel and glass.

@timothy4772 9 месяцев назад

I still can't get over the fact they needed to build a city 500m in the air. Something like this already puts a limit to how much they can expand. They can't expand vertically because of weight limits.

@Chris-vz7en Год назад

Doesn't having a brainchild require having a brain? Someone needs to tell the Crown Prince that not every impressive thing he builds with his lego set can be recreated at full scale.

@Hari-888 6 месяцев назад

The funniest comment I've read on this thing

@guidedmeditation2396 10 месяцев назад

The Line is two walls in which you must stay within. You will be observed in everything you do and need permission to go from one sector to another. It is the definition of a prison.

@eoinoconnell185 Год назад

Is there any city in the world that has naturally (& without hinderance) grown in a linear manner ? There is a reason why cities grow outward, in a circular fashion.

@ChaosAngel667 Год назад

The answer to both questions is yes. Cities used to be built along the lines of coasts, rivers or edges on forests. Building cities like this works for small settlements but when human cities started to reach 10k inhabitants the distances along those lines were simply too long to maintain. Hot spots like markets had to be separated and segregated or they would be simply too crowded to be usable. One city line would be effectively divided in several small cities without clear divisions. Then there is the problem of defending the city. The defenses must be arranged by the city perimeter. A line is geometrically the lest cost efficient arrangement on population vs perimeter. Conversely a circle is the most cost efficient geometrical figure to have the biggest population in the smaller perimeter which answer your second question. Ever since the romans building aqueducts and roads the need to build each home near to water and other resources became unnecessary. Also the most cost efficient way to build roads is to do it inside a circle, not along a line.

@lamh5265 Год назад

Yes. It's called a high-rise. You can't drive in it except for an elevator.

@eoinoconnell185 Год назад

@@ChaosAngel667 But the coast is the hinderance. It's determining the linear growth pattern.

@MKR5210 Год назад

Firstly most cities are merely extensions of or built upon older settlements, so where they are placed is very often based on historic occupations, i.e. coastal areas for fishermen or ports. Secondly in areas of the world where there is an excess of land, spreading outwards is easier. But look at places like New York, the skyscrapers are getting higher and higher. New York is not growing outward, but upward.

@ane-louisestampe7939 10 месяцев назад

Some new towns in Denmark grew ALONG the rail line. They soon become a logistic nightmare, so in time they started to grow circular - naturally 😊

@SocioecologicalInterdependance Год назад

...death sentence handed down last October for three of the tribe members; simply for opposing the project... :(

@juzzam3 Год назад

I feel like these rich oilers are just playing SimCity in real life.

@NR-fd9wv 4 месяца назад

if they had ever played sim city, they would know this doesn't work

@stevengrondin1406 10 месяцев назад

That place will need one hell of an air conditioning system 😮

@AnthonyGoodley Год назад

Their Sky Resort in the middle of the Desert is another genius idea.

@tullochgorum6323 10 месяцев назад

Nine million people, and not a single place to walk in real nature or to sit by a real lake. My definition of hell on earth - never mind all the other insanity.

@simongray6452 Год назад

What an utter nightmare. It's half-baked fantasies like this that are speeding up this planet's demise. I hope and pray someone sees fit to abandon it before any more harm is inflicted.

@johnsmith-cw3wo Год назад

you just jealous because arabs no 1. - look at the SIZE of those things... Burj Khalifa sheet on everything western world built.

@pyroman7196 10 месяцев назад

Can you imagine how bad it would smell in there one year in? It’s a common issue for astronauts, let alone 9m people shoved in a confined space who cook daily

@kevanhubbard9673 Год назад

Obviously doomed as there's a reason why towns and cities expand outward from a central core.

@mbarker_lng 10 месяцев назад

Imagine if this nightmare were actually constructed, even in miniature (say 1km or somesuch). The lower class people would be physically confined to 'the dungeons' below while the elite look down on them both literally and ideologically. I know that there is no chance this thing gets built because its impractical on so many levels, but the idea that some people are on a mission to actively construct a dystopia is disturbing.

@AzanKhan-oq8tr Год назад

"Bad news for us introverts" 😂😂😂

@TheMercilessEye Год назад

I have to wonder what the aliens will think when they finally get here, and find a dead world with this huge LINE in the middle of that desert...

@kuchikopi4631 10 месяцев назад

@0darknana🤑

@pamelahomeyer748 Год назад

The mirror like finish pointed towards the sand is going to cook the desert

@elle4520 Год назад

Yeah I felt some type of way about the mirrors the whole project is so out to lunch in my mind

@jayaybe1 Год назад

And kill millions of birds who will fly right into it.

@froglover4203 Год назад

@@jayaybe1 Dumbass birds should get off their phones and look where they're flying then

@qhaith3085 Год назад

But both sides are facing north & south :/

@tonescape1 8 месяцев назад

To me, the most obvious problem is the 170 km wall of the two buildings. It's supposedly designed as 135 modules (i.e., towns) each 800 meters long by 500 meters high. If the estimated population for the entire Line is 9 million, that would be 66,667 people in each module. But as for the distance: 135 * 0.8 km = 108 km, which leaves 62 km of The Line uninhabited. So divide that number by the number of gaps: 62 km / 134 = ~463 meters of linear unused space between each module. Why not close off the walls of the buildings there, and leave gaps in the buildings to the outside environment at those intervals? That would give migrating land animals routes to continue their travels, and would help reduce the deaths of birds. Since the primary means if transportation will be the high-speed underground train, and the modules are supposed to be self-contained, I see no reason why the project should not be implemented in this manner.

@bobdinitto Год назад

This city will be completely indefensible due to its enormous attack surface. Blow a few holes in it with aircraft or missiles and that would isolate pockets of resistance that could then be serially wiped out. There would be no escape because there's only one transportation line and no hub. Control that line and you control everything. A circular or octagon shape would be more efficient and defensible.

@user-hk7de3nt4q Год назад

Why are you thinking about war and such things? American by any chance?

@SpareSomeChange8080 Год назад

@@user-hk7de3nt4q lmao do you think you have no enemies?

@mtmitch Год назад

You don’t have to be American to consider war. Read some history books; war has been a concern for FAR longer than America has even existed. And with the world continuing to be as fractured and antagonistic as it is, war will inevitably happen again and again. Just look at all the disagreements that happen in the comments of these videos and imagine that on a global scale. Humans have consistently resorted to war to solve problems; it’s not just an “American” problem.

@fredwood1490 10 месяцев назад

As a rule, even well engineered cities are GROWN, usually from a central core. There are always unexpected local problems that require local changes to the master plan. Something this locked in will need to be a multi generational project with the city inching across the desert, evolving as it goes. Who are the people that are going to live there? What will they do for a living? What is described is essentially, Kowloon on steroids. There is also no reference as to what harm this city is going to do to the current cities in the area? Clearly meant to be for upper class Citizens, with large support staffs who will not be allowed to share the beauty of the city, (as such people never are.), I think this place will have more in common with Mesopotamia than New York, and that might be the plan all along!

@keithadams1538 Год назад

Sounds like a modern day Alcatraz where escape is near impossible

@davidthurston5455 Год назад

😂👏

@Re3p4rr 10 месяцев назад

Nothing funnier than rich people losing their money because of their stupidity. It makes me sick to know what else could be done with that money.

@SIGNALacquired Год назад

if one section length of The Line collapses, what would happen to the sections near it?

@ravenousvisages Год назад

If the 1600 foot high south facing mirror wall were allowed to remain intact, what would happen to the landscape adjacent that is now getting double the sunlight? 🔥😅

@Raycheetah 10 месяцев назад

Now think about Saudi Arabia's regional enemies, and the big, red bullseye this thing would have painted on it in any conflict. ='[.]'=

@johnking6624 10 месяцев назад

The first time I went to Saudi Arabia I formed the firm conclusion that it was the ass hole of the universe and that, no matter what, I would never go there again. Sadly my previous employer wanted me to go there and do an installation I said no and quoted a silly price to put him off. The sod agreed to pay the silly money and I had to go again because the wife liked the idea. I did the job, got the money and decided that, if he ever wanted me to go again he could stick it up the only place suitable.

@rishikanpuraskul1740 Год назад

I'm not sure what other think of this point in The Line project, it regarding the width, which is set to be 200 meters, isn't that suffocating? Rivers have more width than that. Doest matter the length is 170 km, but with the width that small it's simply so hard to breathe.

@kewintaylor7056 Год назад

I think 200 meter width is too much.u know this is a kind of huge building that have huge foundations,right? And if they build it only 200*200 It still very huge😂 bigger than any building in the world. Think what happen to ppl inside would be unimaginable,cuz this isnt reall yet😂. Though this project would fail,and waste a lot of money😂.

@angolanchopsquad Год назад

@@kewintaylor7056 20% completed

@stephenbanks5952 11 месяцев назад

@@angolanchopsquadIsn't that only building the foundations? I saw a picture and it was just a lot of displaced sand. Plus I suspect that is only a fraction of the length. It can still be abandoned and it will be. For sure. Or built on a completely different reduced scale. That is even before they begun with the 'sustainability'.

@Slash1066 10 месяцев назад

Despite the groundwork being started, it's very obvious this will grind to a halt and be forgotten in a year

@mattansell8275 Год назад

They haven't considered the possibility of anything breaking down. Such as the air conditioning. Not good in the desert.

@randallminchew6780 10 месяцев назад

It would be cool to see a dystopian sci-fi movie with this building in it.

@davidkerk5676 10 месяцев назад

It's not hard to sell a great product, it takes a true salesman to sell a piece of shit. That salesman is legend.

@JS-jh4cy Год назад

Megacrap enough to go bankrupt

@richardpark3054 Год назад

Fabulous! I love it: new word, 'megacrap'. Thank you!

@TexpatOTG Год назад

This project has failure written all over it. It will be a great spot for RU-vidrs that do "abandoned" content to shoot their videos.

@ExtremeForever Год назад

I'm surprised that you seem like you know so much, but you miss a important requirement part to even make this possible. Just like Dubai, they will have to find people who's actually willing to do the physical labor and work for very littlepay and horrible living conditions. Probably around 90% of the people doing the physical work will be people from poor countries or nearby regions who will just take any pay because they need a job. I call it modern slavery.

@mukkah 10 месяцев назад

They did: "Human rights violations" lolol ^_^'

@dark-lc4lq 10 месяцев назад

رأيت مقطع فيديو لاحد العمال اللذين يعملون على هذا المشروع الكبير وكان الرجل " انقليزي " العرق ولا اعرف اي دولة هي جنسيته. ان ما تسميه " العبيد " قد انتهى بالفعل منذ زمن طويل ، عدا اليهود فهم يرون جميع الأعراق بالنسبة لهم " عبيد " ولدوا لطاعتهم.

@lucas82 10 месяцев назад

The Saudis saw all the batshit crazy architecture projects going on in the Emirates and were like, hold my kebabs!!

@garryjones1847 Год назад

Its a fancy prison!

@moosefactory133 Год назад

It looks cool but I have my doubts that it will ever be finished.

@anitahwells3171 Год назад

I watched this video out of curiosity and thought it a strange idea to live in a straight line;) But then the topic of evicting the native people off their ancestral lands seems to be a theme of most people who can afford such things as line-living. Since I am Lakota I understand how colonialism can affect society and can wipe culture out to leave devastation and replace the natural order of things and all for a possible failure. There are cities in China that are not being lived in but the young people are now “Laying Flat” “Tang Ping” due to unemployment and no housing. The elite around the world seem to be in a futuristic competition to see who is more creative and at the risk of their people’s wellbeing. It should be interesting if it succeeds 🎉

@guysabol8743 10 месяцев назад

your words ring true..peace

@petermaunsell4575 9 месяцев назад

What would be success? That it is fully built including the satellite projects?That it is fully lived in? That it continues for 100 200 300years?

@philippschwartzerdt3431 10 месяцев назад

This concept reminds me in a way of the Kowloon Walled City (on mainland Kowloon opposite from Hong Kong island).

@YudraKudra Год назад

Working in the scorching heat🥵

@referencefool6525 Год назад

Specifically the southern side will become hotter with fassade growing upward. 🚦🪂

@martin4819 Год назад

This is going to be incredibly expensive to maintain. If maintenance can’t be done properly things will go downhill really quickly as everything is interconnected in a line. I think they will end up building 10 miles and half the height and stop.

@surf2257 10 месяцев назад

No they wont, its all BS. None will go live in a massive jail

@guysabol8743 10 месяцев назад

and MBA will shrug shoulders and simply walk away

@johnserrano9689 Год назад

They're missing the entire point for anyone besides maintenance workers, WHY would anyone choose to live there? There no sustainable business which would be located there to require an individual to live in such a location..... Outside of the novelty for the wealthy to buy up a spot to "invest" and borrow against, why would the everyday working class individual live there?

@shahbaaz4024 Год назад

Absolutely. In a bustling city like Makkah, due to over saturation i saw lot of shops, restaurants and even some complex closed which were newly opened the last time i had visited. How is this place going to sustain then.

@baraka629 Год назад

even if they build a portion of "the line", (which i doubt will even happen due to insurmountable engineering hurdles) nobody will have a reason to move to "the line" as "the line" produces nothing, therefore there will be no jobs open to residents (besides maintenance of the city itself, which in of itself isn't enough).

@SurajChauhan-cy1ny Год назад

They could make a successful Circular project instead Line.

@israelevans4916 Год назад

If they can’t finish a building how will they ever do this ???

@xijinpingpuzzy1657 Год назад

Imagine a new pandemic inside the line. and everyone is locked.

@lmenascojr 10 месяцев назад

The only thing wrong with the concept is that it needs to be buried so that it is flush with the terrain. A buried infrastructure would last a whole lot longer than something subjected to the elements. It would also deal with the migration and native population problems, keeping the majority of the surface intact to continue living largely the the way they have been living. And finally, to add space they only have to dig down to have enough to last for centuries.

@peterenevoldsen7199 10 месяцев назад

We don’t build houses underground.

@raultebelin5354 Год назад

Question: How will the air circulates the area freely? Imagine the heat dissipations will or can create regarding with the climate, the heat produced by the gadgets & appliances, ground heat and the body heat produced by the occupants. The fresh air that needs to be taken cared of are restricted, again more humans more heat it can produced. edit: corrected some few missing words. thank you for reading.

@fredericklee4821 10 месяцев назад

The linear city as proposed is extremely vulnerable to disasters, natural or man-created.

@iamkman Год назад

Its nothing but a modern looking Prison system!

@teoteous 9 месяцев назад

The crown prince apparently loves science fiction.

@rmschindler144 Год назад

my big question is: can I bike in it? (bike, or whatever other futuristic conveyances people are using.) imagine how cool that would be, if there were trails that wound their way through the fascinating interior spaces.

@harukrentz435 10 месяцев назад

would you bike in hot desert?

@Eugenetra7 9 месяцев назад

That will happen at the lowest level, with all the transport))

@sas5923 Год назад

You will witness the remarkable success of this project, as it surpasses all expectations. While eagerly anticipating your access to it, we kindly request your contribution commensurate with your means, which will further fuel its progress. We look forward to welcoming you in 2030, as you embark on this extraordinary journey with us.

@stephenbanks5952 11 месяцев назад

You have been listening too much to the promotions films. Reality will hit.

@samanthabeaz6797 Год назад

I think there could be an obvious fix here. I'm no engineer, but what if they ran grids? It would be practically the same, but can integrate other stick cities while incorporating useful land as production blocks. Then they could easily move workers/product to/from industrial and agricultural sites while keeping the pollution to specific areas away from major population centers. While working in tandem with other connected and near by stick systems. In my head, this fixes a lot of the lines issues, and expands the potential of the idea. But like I say, I'm no engineer.

@samanthabeaz6797 Год назад

Oh, also scrap those shiny expensive high upkeep walls, that's just 52 flavors of stupid. Instead they should be utilized for vertical low water crops. We can solve the disruption to nature with underground and over ground nature bridges.

@jennoq1311 Год назад

Ooh that's a much better idea! And you're not even an engineer, why can't they come up with that. Both ideas actually. I can only see this as a future abandoned project. I didn't know they had so many. The world is like a box of Lego for these gentlemen, wish they were actually interested in helping humanity out.

@francesconicoletti2547 10 месяцев назад

You mean a checkerboard city as invented by the Ancient Greeks and Chinese and used by every civilisation since ? Like say Manhattan or Peking or Barcelona or Melbourne to pick one example from most of the continents. That’s never going to work .

@alanbudde8560 10 месяцев назад

The most efficient shape is a circle or square roughtly. Thats why most cities tend to fall into blobs of that general shape. Extreme geographic restrictions like coasts and valleys can cause stretching but thats usually a case of working within constraints. No reason to do that to yourself. One of the simple reasons is that grids like you said have a redundancy whereas a line has many choke points that can results in catastrophic failure. There just doesnt seem to be any reason for this design beyond naive attempts to show off.

@teapot2_1 10 месяцев назад

Oh yeah, make it a grid of transport routes with blocks of commercial or residential zones in the middle of each block. Then just do away with the walls....and you end up with a normal city?

@j.4941 Год назад

I would just ask a single question: "WHY?" I mean, yes, the reasoning behin "zero g urbanism" has at least some theoretical reasoning looking at areas where the land is spares and valuable or where sprawls destroy a lot of nature. But we are talking about *desert* here. Why would anyone build a VERY expensive skyscraper in the middle of the desert if you could just build regular buildings for a fraction of the price?

@cmsacademy1673 Год назад

If this gets completed it will look more like a mega city of Judge Dredd

@mortifinkenbein9559 10 месяцев назад

If Saudi-Arabia fails with this project, they will lose much of their power and wealth. I like this thought very much.

@joostprins3381 10 месяцев назад

Wasn’t this man not the same who ordered people tortured and murdered?

@mortenfrosthansen84 10 месяцев назад

What I absolutely dislike, is the desert state mind-boggling projects, that is both tasteless, vulgar and deeply unnecessary.. It strains human resources, that I predict is going to be condemned in the future. Future generations will curse us for being so wasteful.. You don't know what you got till it's gone

@genekelly8467 10 месяцев назад

Providing utilities (water, sewage, electricity and transport will be very expensive; energy use will be many times that of a traditional circular cities

@jasurvive4455 Год назад

A normal human being will see this as an imagination

@sheldondrake8935 Год назад

but a rich caveman won't

@petertullemans Год назад

Makes sense to create a long continuous shaded courtyard between two massive planes… the glazing on the outer skin meanwhile has no shading to the glass… hope they built it in bite size stages to test thoroughly before committing to 170 worth

@briand6162 Год назад

I believe the only way to build this would be through building massive warehouses that would build pre-fabricated stackable cubes. A rail system on North and South sides of the line would be used to accommodate mobile cranes that would be used to stack these cubes in place. The rail system would be used later for deliveries to the City and removal of waste materials from the City in lieu of using the interior high speed rail that would be used for passengers only. There are a ton of additional ways to accomplish this project.

@MacNifty Год назад

Yes. Exactly. Also why it is linear or to SLICE the sea like Moses. Least resistance to the harm that could be in the future of flood, wave and wind.

@Lasarius2010 Год назад

Laughed at the "the technology to make it happen doesn't exist yet" trope. NEOM has hired out design work from some of the worlds leading big industry engineering firms. Most of the technology to make it a thing exists. There are mega projects that get put up in short spans and those were just scaled from the same concept for smaller projects. The design for The Line and the other 3 areas are all doable with proper scalability in design.

@DreadX10 10 месяцев назад

@@Lasarius2010 Which one of "some of the worlds leading big industry engineering firms" came up with the floating trees (that also have not enough room for a proper root system in their pots)?

@orchidorio 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for that. You mention trash. OMG! Trash is a BIG issue. How do you handle it? How do you dispose of it? Where? Vehicles? Underground?? Pollution! Ancestral land a dump.

@cardboardboxification 10 месяцев назад

@@orchidorio they will live in a sealed cube, they can just toss it out the window

@1957jmhiser1 Год назад

It is, of course going to fail just due to the structure design. A wall has no give. A dome is better, but it will still fail because it will be covered by blowing sand, the air purifiers will get clogged and people will suffocate. Maybe if pods on huge stilts were built it might work to keep the homes above the sand.

@sharlpear8103 Год назад

But I genuinely feel the need to ask if we need such mathematically perfect shapes to build our cities? the grids seem perfect to plan our cities and probably the easiest way but it feels unnatural to me as if we are forced into such grids and shapes.

@Zodroo_Tint 11 месяцев назад

The natural way is the spiderweb shape or the galaxy shape.

@T0MT0Mmmmy 10 месяцев назад

One question, where will all the sewage go the people produce? From one end through the whole city to the other to be shipped away? Than you will need huge sewage facilities at the end. Will it be processed at the bottom? All the smell will go up through floors. Will there be facilities outside the line? Great view from within. It will end as with burj khalifa. A huge line of sewage trucks.

@williamkirk2633 Год назад

I believe humans can accomplish anything as long as someone puts up the money!!!

@abrahamames911 10 месяцев назад

Doesn't mean they should though.

@alancham4 10 месяцев назад

If humans are going to build mega projects they should be about making life better for people, not a monument to a single ego.

@uliwehner Год назад

not too worried about traveling end to end in 20 minutes. for one, most people won't need to do that a whole lot. Even if it takes an hour to travel 100 miles, still faster than driving by car in any other city. my concern is that i would spend my days in elevators.

@stephenbanks5952 11 месяцев назад

The travel time will be much more than that. They need to stop at very regular intervals to let the 9 million people on and off. 9 million people with no other way of getting around. It will be unusable. You will probably not be able to get on most trains. It will be horrible.

@homergee3381 10 месяцев назад

With the age of oil coming to an end this is a missed opportunity of epic scale. With all that wealth and a clean slate they could be a showcase of sustainability instead of a eco disaster. The rich won't live cramped and surveyed, the poor can't afford it......

@AthenaSchroedinger Год назад

I like the idea of it; as it was said, there are many problems to be over come. It will be interesting to see if they can be.

@kewintaylor7056 Год назад

This can be success if they just build very few meter of it😂.

@JerryHawkins-rr3ry Год назад

This will SURELY cost more than a Trillion.

@EricaYE6 11 месяцев назад

This Saudi prince watches too many Sci-fi movies. He's like a big kid with way too much money.

@3rd_EYE_MegaMind Год назад

9 million residences. You will ALWAYS be waiting "In Line" for something. (Two Pounds of Baloney in a One Pound Bag) *Boondoggle* - work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.