Saudi Arabia will not directly build the futuristic city The Line at NEOM, but instead use “a lot of artificial intelligence to design through a digital twin backbone,” NEOM’s Executive Director Giles Pendleton said in an internal interview.
“We’ve got to build quite a lot of real estate in a short space of time. Well, we’re not actually building THE LINE. We’re assembling it from a series of modular pieces that are pre-engineered and predetermined as to what they do,” Pendleton said when asked about building a new city of nine million inhabitants in a short period of time.
The Line’s mirror facade will allow the city to seamlessly blend into the nature around it. With a reduced infrastructure footprint, the linear city will have no roads, cars or emissions, running on 100 per cent renewable energy with 95 per cent of land preserved for nature. The city is built to prioritise health and well-being over transportation and infrastructure.
The city will be just 200m wide but 170km long and 500m above sea level with an ideal climate throughout the year and a high-speed rail offering residents end-to-end transit in 20 minutes.
