Snowpiercer irl.

Is this the society of the future?

Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
Just get back to your chicken coop or no food 4U

Grim

Seriously why are the Saudis so retarded? A linear settlement literally maximizes the time it takes to travel from arbitrary point A to B. It's the worst possible design for a city.

>>212117834
This and it doesn't even look cool. A big circle or dome would be cooler

this is what walkable city advocates want for everyone

>>212117874
This is almost literally the exact opposite of the kind of urban design advocated by those types.

>>212117834
It also minimizes the people surrounding you tho

You kept up with your walkable cities bullshit. Well guess what, you pushed too far. Now you have to live in that soi fag

>>212117696 (OP)
Stupidest city design in existence.
Whoever HAS to commute end to end every day will kill themselves.

>>212117873
also separates animals and the mirrored surface kills birds
they could have made a cool gash in the ground (like pic rel) but no let's go postmodern
>we wuz beethoven and shieeeet

the entire muslim world was sustainable only while Levantines, Persians, and Ottomans ruled it
every time the Arabs came to power it was a disaster
and the heckin British (see Lawrence of Arabia, it's literally what the movie is about) permanently installed the Arabs in leadership during WW1 in Europe (which they baited Serbia into btw)

tl;dr next time make a Lawrence of Arabia thread but with the same talking points

>>212117696 (OP)
I'm not eating the bugs though, that's a red line for me

>>212117696 (OP)
Literally the most inefficient city shape you could make.

>>212118250
YOU WILL EAT BUGS AND BE HAPPY HABIBI!!!

>>212117696 (OP)
Doesnt matter because its never gonna get finished. It’ll stagnant and fizzed out once funding dries up

>>212117834
cause they got F-U money

>>212117696 (OP)
Anon... I....

>>212119184
the old plan is literally retarded, how many miles was that supposed to be lol

>The plan was announced in 2021. Saudi Arabia stated that it aimed to complete a 5 km (3.1 mi) central segment by 2030, with completion of the full 170 km (110 mi) project in 2045. In 2024, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported that the first phase would only be 2.4 km (1.5 mi) long;
>In 2024, after US$50 billion had been spent, the project was reported to be facing problems of large cost increases, many long delays, and a possible lack of the critical mass of inhabitants needed to make the city a modern business hub. The aim had become to complete the first half-mile section in 2034.
Goin' GREAT

the light reflecting off of the mirrors would be hell.

and its in the middle of fucking nowhere. and not just any nowhere, a fucking desert

the only reason why anyone would live there is if there was a catestrophic event that made everywhere else inhabitable

>>212119349
110

>>212119126
Everything from this shit to Dubai is going to be a falling apart shithole in another 2 decades, the more the planet relies less and less on oil

What's with all of the luddites ITT? You would have mocked the first man to add a second story to a building.

>According to architect and urban planner Etienne Bou-Abdo, "the 3D images presented are not classical 3D architecture images", and the designers of the project "have rather called upon video game designers". Bou-Abdo stated that the plan included "a lot of technology that we don't have today". Many of the project's key announcements, particularly in the areas of energy and transportation, were based on technologies that did not exist even in prototype form.

>>212119487
>a two story building is exactly the same with that retardation in the middle of nowhere
I'm sure you're an apple user aren't you

>>212117696 (OP)
the rich oil countries there really are a case study on how you can't fix low IQ races with money
you give subhumans practically unlimited money, via oil, and they spend it on the most retarded shit like artificial islands no one wants and trucks full of human shit

>>212119820
you don't say

>>212119820
It's more a problem with autocracy. When one person controls all the power and money, you have to hope they won't be retarded and use it poorly. Europe had the same problem in the middle ages, with kings spending money building their 8th palace while their people lived in mud huts.

>>212117696 (OP)
>>212117834
The gulf Arab states are fake countries.
A bunch of retarded rich tribal Arabs who imported a bunch of even more 3rd world migrants from India and the Philippines so they could rule over non existent country.

>>212119820
Not really. These people have billions, hundreds of billions of dollars. Their country may even have trillions. That’s a lot of money, and the people with the money aren’t going to spend it on the low IQ subhuman sandniggers inhabiting their country, so what do you expect them to spend it on? They just spend it on frivolous things to show off their money. It’s based I say, I’m glad our oil money is going into artificial islands instead of making their country and “peoples” lives better. Fuck all sand niggers, they all deserve to die and suffer, except the hot women who should be my sex slaves.

More like The Dot.

>>212119487
t. Mohammed bin Salman

>The plan was announced in 2021. Saudi Arabia stated that it aimed to complete a 5 km (3.1 mi) central segment by 2030, with completion of the full 170 km (110 mi) project in 2045.
>The Wall Street Journal said that a 2023 draft board presentation estimated completion in 2080 at a cost of $8.8 trillion
We'll die before seeing completed

>>212120188
At least medieval kings would use those palaces, this is like a medieval king trying to build a city in the middle of the ocean with helicopters as the main form of transportation >>212119505

this thing must just fuck over all the wildlife that normally migrate to better climates throughout the year

>>212120286
damn how many sars and akbars did the saudis import. That's a lot of dicks

Fun fact: the line is just one of a series of equally extravagant NEOM projects. Just visit this website and look through the "regions" tab

https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/magna

>>212121523
Don't these ragheads know about the global earthquakes that are coming?

>>212121523
I gotta be honest, I dig some of the designs

>>212121623
It will be a cool ruin to explore in 10-20 years

I get that its unrealistic and won't be built but I still love seeing concepts and that being put out regardless. Daring to dream

>>212121752
westerners already don't visit the other cool ruins in the middle east because they require standing around in 45C deserts.

>>212122082
Oh but it is underway

>>212122243
>we dug up the sand
>it's basically finished

>>212117834
They didn't get rich by being smart, they got rich by happening to be on top of huge oil reserves. So their culture never caught up, and they're still slaves to their idiot biology.

>>212117834
I think the idea is that each section will have everything you need. But these things come about because of ultra rich idiots doing a dick waving contest

>>212119366
Can't believe Mexico is paying for this too.

There was something like this in Hyperion Cantos lol

>>212122243
>building over wet sand
do mahmoods really

>>212123063
I dont see any building being done

>>212117696 (OP)
Is this gonna be bigger than the trumpian wall

>>212125333
They're both going to be similar sizes in the end.

>>212119366
who could have seen this coming

>>212121752
Everything's going to collapse in 20 years because of modern building techniques being centered on cheap shit.

If I was the Saudi's I'd sponsor a more sensible arcology type settlement for 5% of the same money, that conserves water with the long term plan of having it run like Singapore.
Then I'd use the rest of the money to make a gigantic monolith/mosque type thing out of metres-thick stainless steel, the pieces would be like girders welded together all along. It would take 30 years and the blood of 200 million indians, but it would last for literally hundreds of thousands of years.

>>212119184
The Dash