The progress of building a straight city across the desert

Saudi Authorities revealed more details about the super Neom project, including ambitious timelines and the process of people moving to live in straight cities, New Atlas On January 28, reported.

Neom spreads on the land equivalent to Massachusetts or Belgium in the Saudi Arab Desert, including many different areas in the process of construction. The purpose of this unprecedented project is to help Saudi Arabia diversify the economy due to the expected oil use operations will be reduced in the coming years.

The line (The Line) is considered the capital of Neom. With a height of 500 m and a width of 200 m, the structure like this skyscraper will have a length of 170 km with a design inside like a future city, supervised through AI to manage everything from production. Energy to waste treatment.

New details about the straight city are revealed in a series of seminars at the Davos World Economic Forum. The representative of Neom Denis Hickey project explained the first phase of the straight city being conducted. After completion in 2030, along with The Mukaab cube project and the tallest building in the world, the JEC tower, the building will have a length of 2.4 km and act as a residence for 300,000 people. Currently, the project is using the majority of steel in the world to pile into the ground and will soon pour the foundation.

Hickey emphasized that the straight city should be seen as a frame for a city, not a building. From the current viewpoint, people will not live here 24/7 but come to enjoy the surrounding scenery. According to Hickey, it may take 100 years or more to fill The Line with 9 million people, so this is a long -term project. Traffic will be the main focus because the straight city will be absent from vehicles. The city will operate 100% by wind and solar power.