Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "NEOM: City Of The Future or $600 Billion Stunt? | Answers With Joe" video.

I think some of the ideas behind Neom are very intriguing, and worth exploring...someday. When we eventually have space colonies we'll probably be building linear cities like this. Take a city inside a giant rotating wheel and stretch it out, you'll get a line. The water desalination dome is also a really interesting idea, with more immediate uses. But I have zero confidence that Saudia Arabia or Softbank or whomever else can build a livable linear city, today, in some of the harshest terrain in the world. Especially not when they build it from the top down with the expectation of controlling everything like a mathematical equation. Real cities are messy. They grow and change in response to the needs of their inhabitants, and if the inhabitants of this city are all rich they'll just pick up and leave if they find it too restrictive.
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@jay-em Or maybe a square, so they don't have to build curved tunnels and track.
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@SixOThree You're right, it'll be a series of hubs connected by a single underground rail line. If Neom actually succeeded in attracting residents, presumably they'd build more hubs over time, until the entire line is filled out.
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