The Line, a smart city, 9 million people,170 km long, living modules of 5 minutes neighborhoods

The Line will consist of connected communities called modules. The total structure will consist of 135 modules of each 800 metres in length and 500 metres tall. The project management had all architects sign confidentiality agreements, which is why there are no references to The Line on any of their websites. German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung found out that two well known architects terminated their participation in the project because of human rights and ecological concerns – Norman Foster and Francine Houben from Mecanoo. The paper also reported that several high-ranking architects are still on board: David Adjaye, Ben van Berkel (UN Studios), Massimiliano Fuksas, the London office of the late Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) as well as Delugan Meissl and Wolf D. Prix from Coop Himmelb(l)au. The Süddeutsche criticized the lack of sustainability and the prevailing double standards of the architects in moral issues. By March 2023, more than 4,500 piles had been driven in module 43, reaching a peak of 60 piles per day. Piling work then shifted towards modules 45, 46 and 47 which are located at the marina. Excavation of about 1 million cubic metres of earth is taking place each week at the marina. In an interview with Dezeen, associate professor Marshall Brown at Princeton University said he believed that in such large-scale urban planning, it would be difficult to achieve the slick, futuristic aesthetic seen in the concept art because of the large number of factors involved; for example, one of the images depicts a picnic on a 200-metre (660 ft) high ledge, which would probably be illegal in real life. Hélène Chartier of C40 Cities compared The Line to other unrealised linear city projects, such as the 1882 design by Soria and a 1965 proposal for a linear settlement in New Jersey. Dutch architect Winy Maas said that while he would love to live in such an environment, its profile as seen in the concept art was monotonous, and he believed it would facilitate unfavorable wind flow through the interior. He praised the overall concept for tackling densification and heat regulation inside the city. Philip Oldfield of the University of New South Wales said that the quality of life would probably come down to whether the city was well-managed, rather than to its visual flair.[23] Oldfield said the project would have a carbon footprint of about 1.8 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent in the glass, steel, and concrete, because “you cannot build a 500-meter-tall building out of low-carbon materials“. He said the 170-km profile would create a large-scale barrier to adjacent ecosystems and migratory species similar to that created by highways, and the mirrored exterior facade would be dangerous for birds. Digital rights researchers such as Vincent Mosco suggested that the city’s data collection scheme could make it a “surveillance city“, because of arrangements that would distort consent to sharing data, and because Saudi Arabia’s poor human rights record might imply potential misuse of data. Neom CEO Joseph Bradley said that the Neom coordinators were resolving privacy issues and that Saudi Arabia had a personal data protection law. Aside from the merits of the projected city, there was also scrutiny of the actions of the Saudi government in pursuing the project. In October 2022, Shadli, Ibrahim, and Ataullah al-Huwaiti, of the Howeitat tribe, were sentenced to death when they refused to vacate their village as part of the NEOM megaproject.[24] Shadli al-Huwaiti was the brother of Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti, who was shot dead by security forces in April 2020 in his home in Al-Khariba, in the part of Tabuk province earmarked for NEOM, after he posted videos on social media opposing the displacement of local residents to make way for the project. Feasibility According to the 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 includes “a lot of technology that we don’t have today“. Many of the project’s other key announcements, particularly in the areas of energy and transportation, are based on technologies that do not even exist in prototype form. Text above from Wikipedia Här finns vi: : Awake Society grupp FB Desombryrsig Sida : : : : :