Saudi Arabia's New City - "The Line"


The Line

Saudi Arabia has just shocked the world by releasing the first look at their upcoming city called the line. They are quite literally in the works of creating an entire city, which is that 500 meters high. Making it taller than the empire state, stretching it out a staggering 170 kilometers in length. Which for perspective would take the average human over 40 hours to walk and they are housing all of that in a mirrored glass wall. 

This linear city will eventually be home to a whopping 9 million residents, and the suburbs are essentially segments along this line, which, and this is the crazy part,  are organized in three dimensions. And because of that added third dimension depth everything you need in your daily life such as your home, work, schools and shopping are all within these five minute walk neighborhoods.

And if you want to go visit someone down the line, all of their services will operate with AI and run autonomously, making it possible to travel from one side all the way to the other in just 20 minutes. And because there will be no need for cars, the city will have zero carbon emissions and their energy and water supplies will be 100 percent renewable. 

In fact, they are so confident in their design that, they had the audacity to create a model of what New York would look like if they adopted the same infrastructure as the line. They've also strategically located this city so that 40 percent of the world can travel there in just a six hour flights and is surrounded by both the ocean and mountains, giving the residents immediate access to nature.

And just to make things even crazier, the line is just one of the three projects that Saudi Arabia are  working on. and while there's no official release date for when this could be complete, the line is a large part of the country's vision 2030 program. So the question is, is this somewhere you would want to live?

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