This will be The Line: 9 million inhabitants in a 170 km long building

The Government of Saudi Arabia has already launched the construction of one of the great metropolises of the future. Is about The Line (La Línea, in Spanish), the first linear city in the world: it will extend for 170 kilometers along the Saudi desert, from the province of Tabuk to the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea.

The mega-building, whose dimensions will be 200 meters wide and 500 meters high, will be clad in exterior mirrors and will be able to house up to 9 million people inside. To get an approximate idea of ​​this capacity, just imagine that in Lima, the capital of Peru, and Seoul, the capital of South Korea, there are about 10 million people.

Images from October of this year captured by drones from the OT Sky Drone company have already revealed that different excavators have begun their operations on the ground.

The guiding philosophy behind The Line, valued at $725 billion It’s simple: build a city in which its inhabitants are always located within a short time of their destinations, whether they are their homes, places of leisure and work and educational centers.

To move through it, it will not be necessary to have private cars, but only use elevators, ride bicycles and travel by public transport, such as a high-speed train that will connect points separated by 20 minutes.

When the Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the ambitious futuristic city in January 2021, he argued: “Why should we sacrifice nature for the sake of development? Why should 7 million people die each year from pollution? Why should we lose a million people every year to traffic accidents? And why should we agree to waste years of our lives commuting to work?

According to the project’s official website, each inhabitant of The Line could theoretically enjoy 1,000 cubic meters of urban volume – a much more generous space than is available in most dense urban environments.

“The designs revealed today for the city’s vertically layered communities will challenge traditional flat, horizontal cities and create a model for nature preservation and better human habitation,” the Saudi prince said in a recent statement.

In the videos and conceptual images, you can see trees, gardens and people moving between the walls of a city that resembles a science fiction movie.

Although one of the main characteristics of The Line is that it promises to be completely ecological (it will depend on renewable energy sources and will not emit polluting gas emissions), some experts point out that any project of this magnitude will have a great environmental price.

Similarly, they wonder how a large wall of mirrors reflecting sunlight might affect the region’s local biodiversity.

TheLine is part of NOS an ambitious smart city project that the Government of that Middle Eastern country plans to finalize by 2030 with the aim of competing in the tourism field with its neighbors in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Source-larepublica.pe