“The Line”, a 500 billion dollar Saudi linear city, will be done

“The Line”, defined “a civil revolution that puts man first, offering an unprecedented urban life experience while preserving the surrounding nature", it will be a reality very soon.

Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and chairman of the company's board of directors NOS, in fact announced last July 25th the operative la to the project which originates from his personal vision of a new type of city, capable of redefining the concept of urban development and the appearance of metropolis of the future.

The project of "The Line" embodies the way in which human communities will take shape in the very near future, in the salvific context of An environment without roads, cars and polluting emissions, in search of a balance between oneself and creation.

The huge and gigantic “beehive” will work 100 percent with renewable energy and will give prioritize health and well-being of the people who live there rather than ai means of transport and the infrastructures of traditional and now outdated settlements.

THEartificial intelligence will monitor this innovative idea of ​​the city and will use predictive models and data economy to understand how to improve the daily life of its inhabitants.

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“The Line” will put nature ahead of economic development at any cost and help preserve 95 percent of the land and natural environments that I fall within the perimeter of the NEOM initiative.

It is estimated that “The Line” it will take on a finished value of 500 billion dollars, but not only that. The estimated cost of the construction is 100-200 billion dollars, with some estimates going as high as one thousand.

However, the Saudi government claims that it will create 380.000 jobs, stimulate economic diversification and contribute approximately 48 billion dollars to the country's national GDP by 2030, i.e. five years after the inhabitants take possession of the first houses.

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Neom (word graphically rendered as NEOM in capital letters, in Arabic: نيوم‎, therefore "Neom") is a newly founded city that should arise in 2025 in the province of Tabuk, in the extreme north-western part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a territory whose economy is currently concentrated in the export of flowers to the Europe and which the Hejaz railway made famous during the First World War and during the Arab insurrections against the Turks of the period 1916-1918.

The NEOM project was announced in 2017 and the name comes from the combination of νέο (“neo”, “new”) with the Arabic مستقبل‎ (“mustaqbal”, “future”).

The company of the same name which oversees all initiatives, within the borders of the state and abroad, is wholly owned by the Public Investment Fund.

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An initiative that dates back to 1971, when the Public Investment Fund became a sovereign wealth fund

The latter is a Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, one of the largest in the world in fact, with an estimated total assets of more than $620 billion.

It was founded in 1971 in the capital Riyadh and aims to make investments on behalf of the Saudi government.

After initially pursuing a prudent investment policy and mainly providing loans for national development projects, he has become a global investor.

The Saudi executive is in fact planning the "Saudi Vision 2030", which includes the NEOM and "The Line" projects, as part of its development plan and thus transform the Public Investment Fund into the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world.

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A total of nine million residents in an area of ​​just 34 square kilometers

The announcement reveals the most important features of "The Line", which is only 200 meters wide, 170 kilometers long and 500 meters above sea level.

“The Line” will be home to 9 million residents and will be built on an area of ​​34 square kilometers, an area never seen before compared to other cities of similar housing capacity.

This will reduce the footprint of the infrastructure and create an efficiency never seen before in the city ​​functions.

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A three-layer agglomeration, with each service at 5 minutes and a TAV of 500 km per hour

The line will consist of three layers, one of which is above ground for pedestrians, one underground for infrastructure and another underground for transport.

The ideal year-round climate will ensure that residents can enjoy the surrounding nature when traveling on foot.

Residents will also have access to all of the facilities “The Line” five minutes' walk away, plus a high-speed rail with a 20-minute end-to-end transit and whose trains will clearly exceed five hundred kilometers per hour.

Recalling the official announcement on state television on 10 January 2021, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said: "When we launched 'The Line' last year, we committed to a civilizational revolution that puts people first in our society and is based on a radical change in urban planning."

And yet: “The projects unveiled today of vertically layered city communities will challenge traditional flat, horizontal cities and create a model for conserving nature and improving human livability. 'The Line' will address the challenges humanity faces in today's urban life and shine a spotlight on alternative ways of living”.

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His Highness added: “We cannot ignore the environmental and livability crises that cities around the world are facing, which is why NEOM is at the forefront of providing new and inventive solutions to address these problems. It is led by a team made up of the brightest minds in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction, whose mission is to transform the idea of ​​building upwards into reality”.

Salman Al Saud continued, not without emphasis: “NEOM will be a place where all people, wherever they come from, can make their mark on the world in creative and innovative ways. NEOM remains one of the most important projects of 'Saudi Vision 2030' and our commitment to carry out 'The Line', on behalf of the nation I represent, remains resolute”.

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“The Line” offers a new approach to urban design: the intuition of layering city ​​functions along the vertical axis, giving people the ability to move seamlessly in three dimensions (up, down or across), is a concept termed “Zero Gravity Urbanism”.

It is something radically different from "simple" buildings that grow in height like skyscrapers, since a newly minted architecture arranges public parks and pedestrian areas, schools, homes and workplaces on several levels, so that one can move effortlessly to reach the spaces of one's dutiful daily needs in just five minutes.

“The Line” will have a mirrored external facade which will give its unique and innovative character to the linear city and will allow even the smallest footprint that characterizes it to blend with the surrounding Arabian nature, while the interior will be designed to create extraordinary experiences and magical moments for people.

It will be created by a team of world-renowned architects and engineers, led by the NEOM company and its executives, to develop an urban concept that is revolutionary and forward-thinking.

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A completely digitized design for very advanced construction technologies

In order to change stale and obsolete habits, the design of the city will be fully digitised and construction will be largely industrialized thanks to significantly advanced construction technologies and manufacturing processes.

The announcement of “The Line” is a continuation of the progress NEOM has made in developing its flagship projects, such as “Oxagon”, a completely reinvented “pure” innovation and manufacturing city, and “Trojena”, the destination global mountain resort that will offer the first open-air ski in the Arabian Gulf (in Dubai there is an indoor track inside a shopping center that made a lot of noise in the past…).

These forms of planning are joined by the launch of two new companies controlled by NEOM: Eowa, which deals with energy, water and hydrogen, and Neom Tech & Digital Company.

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