For the past weeks, much of the global discussion surrounding THE LINE has fixated on a single word: the trench. Images of a long excavation have circulated widely, often framed as evidence of uncertainty, pause, or excess. Yet history suggests that large voids, when viewed through the wrong lens, are often misunderstood. #ArchUp #NEOM #TheLine
#Neom
#Neom – urbaner #Albtraum in der saudischen Wüste
von Lise #Triolet
Die Straße, die von der #saudischen Stadt Tabuk zum Roten Meer führt, ist nahezu menschenleer. In der Ferne liegen Beduinendörfer, Dromedarherden ziehen durch die spärlich bewachsene Steppe. Um sich vor der sengenden Hitze zu schützen, haben die Hirten ihre Kufijas tief ins Gesicht gezogen.
https://www.monde-diplomatique.de/!6133426
The massive infrastructure project in the Saudi mountains reaches a key volume target, concealing a subterranean hospitality complex beneath its intended water surface.
Italian construction giant Webuild has announced a significant milestone in the development of NEOM, reporting the placement of one million cubic meters of concrete for the dam at the Trojena mountain resort. #NEOM
#Neom vue du ciel : des images incroyables qui dévoilent la face cachée de la #ville du futur http://sci3nc.es/TPXxYQ
Saudi Arabia’s futuristic “The Line” city falters as costs soar and investors pull back. A once-ambitious vision of a mirrored linear metropolis is shrinking fast amid delays, deaths, and dwindling financing. It’s probably dead at birth.
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13772
#saudi #neom #theline
#ecologie #capitalisme #petrole #revolution #mondialisation
Le prince héritier d' #Arabie_saoudite est reçu mardi prochain à la Maison Blanche. Gros plan sur l'état d'avancement de son projet de cité futuriste #Neom , qui n'avance pas aussi vite que prévu et fait l'objet de nombreuses critiques.
https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/d-un-monde-a-l-autre/arabie-saoudite-les-ambitions-contrariees-de-neom-le-projet-pharaonique-de-mohammed-ben-salmane_7590344.html
The Financial Times: Utopian city was undone by the laws of #physics and #finance.
Das war‘s für #Neom:
Die Gründe für das Scheitern des Megaprojekts
"Interviews mit zahlreichen Verantwortlichen zeigen, dass nicht nur fehlendes Geld und Größenwahn zum Scheitern von The Line beigetragen haben."
Der Text lohnt sich, die Saudis sind ganz köstlich ihrer eigenen Megalomanie erlegen.
https://www.golem.de/news/neom-die-gruende-fuer-das-scheitern-des-megaprojekts-2511-202060.html
Dazu auch: https://youtu.be/Ak4on5uTaTg
via: https://chaos.social/@BarbNerdy/112314348555343867
dann doch lieber Sachsen-Anhalt https://www.golem.de/news/neom-die-gruende-fuer-das-scheitern-des-megaprojekts-2511-202060-2.html /via #golem #neom
Die geplante 170 Kilometer lange Zukunftsstadt #Neom in Saudi-Arabien findet kaum Investoren. Jetzt steht sogar ein komplettes Scheitern des Projekts im Raum. https://winfuture.de/news,154855.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
Who could have seen this coming?
Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
Saudi Arabia’s Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
It appears that Neom—Saudi Arabia’s hugely expensive, architecturally bizarre urban development project—is floundering and close to collapse. A…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #futurecities #NEOM #SaudiArabia #UrbanDevelopment #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/242217/
@NewtonMark I think I know a way to save NEOM/The Line.
Here's how the Crown Prince, Beloved Leader of Saudi, can not only deliver, but enhance his vision of a ~180 kilometre long city of the future.
First, we need to save some money. So let's start by taking the roof off the travel corridor.
Instead of "the line", I call this cost-reduced version "the street".
In this configuration, you have an open-air "street" with separate "buildings" on either side.
And sure, a single long east-west street is certainly visionary.
But you know what's better than one? Twenty.
That's right, we'll have 20 streets running east to west.
But why stop there?
Let's bisect the 20 east to west streets with 20 more running north to south.
That's 40 streets in total.
If we divide the 180 km total length between these 40 streets, we're left with a length of 4.5 kilometres each.
I call this vision "the grid".
Now, because each of these streets are now 4.5 kilometres long, we can travel from one end of each street to the other far more quickly than a maglev could travel 180 kilometres.
And we'll do this in a futuristic pod-like vehicle powered by renewable electric power.
I call these vehicles: Trams.
So you'll have a "network" of these "trams" running along this "grid" of 4.5 kilometre long "streets". With 20 "streets" running north to south and 20 "streets" running east to west.
Best of all, instead of being one continuous building, in this configuration the buildings are divided up into "blocks" that can be developed as people move in!
I know it's a bold and futuristic vision.
But in this "grid" configuration, with streets, blocks, and trams, I believe the Crown Prince can deliver his vision of a city of the future.
#neom #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #cities #TheLine #tram #trams #futurism
Thinking how Boris Johnson (remember that cunt) would often spin yarns about massive engineering projects and the Media would indulge it like any of it was going to happen....
Anyway, was this whole thing an excuse to steal some people's land? I heard it was a violent theft...
Neom un progetto futuristico di città/regione sorgerà nella provincia di Tabuk con l'obbiettivo di essere un laboratorio vivente per l'avvenire. Leggi questo interessante articolo di Gianluca Benedetti.
https://officinaprogetti.org/it/neom-la-citta-del-futuro/
#futuro #neom #citta #urbanistica #architettura #arabiasaudita #binsalman #altrimondi #tecnologia #Tabuk
A stadium in the sky? Saudi Arabia’s bold plan for World Cup 2034 https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/saudi-arabia-plans-sky-stadium-fifa-world-cup-2034-dy8mj50x?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SaudiArabia #WorldCup2034 #Neom #TheLine #FIFA
@LeelaTorres @ntv Ich bezweifle dass #München sich das #Sportwashing und die #Korruption des #IOC leisten kann.
- Eher werden es #Diktatoren wie #IlhamAliyev sich leisten die IOC-Riege zu schmieren.
Ansonsten würde ich eher damit Rechnen dass München #Korruption akzeptiert um die eigene #Bewerbung zurückzuziehen oder garnicht erst einzureichen, weil so hat das #SaudiArabien mit #Trojena (#NEOM) und den #AsiaWinterGames2029 gemacht!, sodass keine anderen Bewerber*innen sich zeigen!
32 yaşındaki Galatasaraylı yıldıza 20 milyon euroluk teklif!: Yaz transfer döneminde Galatasaray'dan Barış Alper Yılmaz'ı transfer etmek için büyük bir çaba veren Suudi Arabistan ekibi NEOM, transferde rotasını bir kez daha İstanbul'a kırdı.
ICARDI'Yİ TRANSFER ETMEK İSTİYORLAR
Tuttomercatoweb'te yer alan habere göre Suudi ekibi, şimdi de Galatasaray'ın yıldız golcüsü Mauro Icardi'yi… https://www.eshahaber.com.tr/haber/32-yasindaki-galatasarayli-yildiza-20-milyon-euroluk-teklif-263922.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon EshaHaber.com.tr #Galatasaray #MauroIcardi #TransferHaberleri #SüperLig #NEOM
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