End of The Line? Why Saudi Arabia's Linear City Isn't Working

The Line was supposed to be Saudi Arabia's shining new eco-city concept. Over 100 miles of tech-powered living on a green energy base.

But now its ambitions have been radically curtailed. And questions have arisen over the engineering at its core, including the transport system, distance between residence, as well as the massively underestimated scale of the project and build time.

Can The Line survive and grow - or is it little more than an expensive 21st century folly?

00:00 Intro
00:45 How the line differs from traditional cities
01:20 Mohammed bin Salman and Investment for the Line Project
02:00 What is the Line
04:16 What's going wrong with the line
06:13 Problems with the engineering and design
06:40 The distance between two people
08:35 Reimagine the Line as the Circle

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