Merged Neom / The Line - genius, crazy, delusion, dystopia?

[bignickel]

Wasn't this the same plot of "Escape 2000"? aka "Bronx Warriors 2", aka "Escape from the Bronx"? Except instead of evicting (killing) people in Italy, I mean the Bronx, it's desert villages?

Henry Silva passed away two years ago, so at least they're safe from him.
Floyd Wrangler: "No sugar you idiot! How many times do I have to tell you, no sugar! It makes me CRAZY!"

 

[Thermal]

Really thought this was a claim made by Governor Puppy Greaser.

 

[Donal]

Washington DC?

Saint Petersburg?

So no?

 

[Myriad]

It's worth any price to build the world's largest 2.2µF capacitor.

(Previous Neom/Line thread here.)

 

[theprestige]

So no?

Both those cities have worked at least as well as any unplanned city.

Likewise Brasilia, Kyoto, Sapporo, Gaborone, Abuja, New Delhi, Frederica, Esbjerg, Helsinki, Bremerhaven, Oslo, Kristiansand, Odesa, and - allegedly - Edinburgh New Town.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Planned cities abound in all historical periods. A great many of them seem to have been successful at the time, or are still successful today, or both.

This particular planned city would fail not because planned cities don't succeed (they manifestly do), but because this is a bad plan.

 

[arthwollipot]

Washington DC?

Saint Petersburg?

Canberra?

 

[Darat]

Its a brilliant cocnept if you just think of it as a money laundering scheme. Or a series of money laundering schemes.

Has a "made to order" city ever actually worked?

Plenty of times. But that's because it was a city people wanted or needed, this is neither.

 

[Darat]

Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city

Murderous dictators do tend to murder, it's part of their job description.

 

[rjh01]

Run for the hills! Megaprojects have put out a video on the subject and they say it is behind schedule and may never be built.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Of course it won't.

 

[Planigale]

Washington DC?

Saint Petersburg?

Rome?

 

[Darat]

An update (spoiler - it ain’t ready)

 

[Matthew Best]

An update? In what sense?

 

[Cosmic Yak]

Isn't that the same video rhj01 posted?

 

[The Great Zaganza]

of course, Saudi Arabia could spend a tiny, imperceptible fraction of the money for this project into making life liveable in Gaza (once the Israeli have worked out their aggression on defenceless houses, mosques, hospitals, refugee camps, small children etc.).

 

[theprestige]

An update (spoiler - it ain’t ready)

I had no idea it was expected to be ready yet.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Isn't that the same video rhj01 posted?

Looks like it. A summary would be nice.

I did hear someone say thousands and thousands of workers have died while working on the project.

 

[rjh01]

Isn't that the same video rhj01 posted?

But who reads anything I write. I am on ignore by most people.

 

[Orphia Nay]

But who reads anything I write. I am on ignore by most people.

Pretty funny that we get an "update" 6 months after your update.

Darat's YouTube recommended feed must be borked.

 

[bruto]

But who reads anything I write. I am on ignore by most people.

Ah, that explains it. I ignore the ignore function and just don't notice anything, so if I didn't notice your post and everyone else ignored it and didn't respond, not much will happen. Fortunately, not much is going to happen very fast in Neom either, it seems, so we'll have years in which the update will be approximately as productive as asking if Franco is still dead. Anyway, an interesting video which I might have missed because I may have been in Spain or someplace, anyway more interesting than the Saudi Desert.