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Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles | Rowan Moore (www.theguardian.com)

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It was billed as a futuristic, glass-walled city, but was only ever realised in the digital sphere – where it should remain

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

Developers are already firing workers, the "scaled back" wording is just a nice way of saying they fucked up and now have to find a way to graciously abandon the project. There are parts of the Neom project that are viable, but the Line was always a pipe dream that's not based in reality.

And even if they try to force a plan to expand it past 2.4km, with the project scope being reduced 5 times it actually creates existential issues, not just lowers the amount of people that it can house. By the project's own description, for it to work it needs to have everything integrated proportionally and when you scale it down 5 times, half the life sustaining systems won't be able to operate.