NEOM | What is THE LINE?

What if we could start again? THE LINE rethinks everything we know about how people live, work and play. A 170 km-long vertical city, designed around people, rather than cars. A revolution in urban living. A city that delivers new wonders for the world.

#TheLINE #NEOM

[jonhanson]

This feels like the video you see in the first act of a sci fi movie before everything goes to hell in the second.

[ThomasSha]

170kms long. There will be 17 districts. Each year, a tribute will be chosen…

[JeremyBuxman]

It's like a late 2000's young adult dystopia novel brought to life! "In the Line, we could have anything we wanted...if you were a Highliner. Us Lowliners had to struggle to get by, and outside the GlassWall, the Lineless dwelled and scribbled not-straight lines..."

[rlstinechickenliaw]

Year 2100:
"mom, whats beyond the walls?"
"Its nothing much Eren" 💀💀💀

[adityapai]

The comments give me faith in hummanity.Glad to see that the majority of people have common sense and think critically

[arthurdebra]

I've never seen a dystopian idea presented so positively.

[ronvideo]

Have they considered the psychological effects of living, working and playing for years or decades in a contained beehive?

[_uprmn]

whoever dreamt this up must have been doing a fucking massive line at the time

[Jacey]

They've really crossed the Line with this idea.

[bruhman]

The fact that they sat in a meeting room and pitched this and no one realized how this sounds and looks is crazy

[M-tb]

I like when she says "communities are organized in 3 dimensions", because you know, we losers live in 2 dimensions!

[RealSlavGod]

This looks exactly like the plot to "The giver". If you haven't watched that movie, give it a watch. It was well done

[TheBakingYeast]

This reminds me of a show called “snow piercer” where the rest of humanity is in a big train and the people with less money get put towards the back and richer people get put towards the front. This is exactly how the line will turn out but vertically

[Danno]

Imagine if you could live in a giant mall….

How this video should have started.

[stanislavdimitrov]

This is the dream of every military bomber pilot. A single pass covers everything 👍 😃

[lapinebob]

When I was a kid (1950) we had ant farms. I guess they are still available today. That was my first impression on seeing this. Man's destiny is to live as insects? Workers in a social environment where you are born serve and die? I live on 5 acres in a forest and I am alive. The forest surrounding me is alive and vibrant. I am surrounded by squirrel, deer, elk, bear, wolf, cougar and birds of many kinds. I am so blessed to have been born in the 40's.

[mikefinney]

There's nothing about a 170 km long mirror that is beneficial to nature. That's a bird killer.

[jemm]

Does anyone else notice how The Line's construction completely blocks out natural sunlight for the lowest levels save for midday but due to the structures criss-crossing the Line's walls that sunlight would blocked out and shaded at the very bottom regardless? And even with the glass façade, this is still predicated on light going through all of the buildings that make up the actual internal structure of the wall, let alone all of the actual service structures too.


Am I the only one that noticed? This construction would literally split people into even more rigid class hierarchies as the rich would be the only ones able to afford high-rise property/apartments where natural sunlight is the most plentiful and easily accessible in an environment outside of a building. Which is important as natural sunlight governs many bodily functions, chief among them our circadian rhythm.

Equity my ass.

Also the mirror façade will absolutely SCORCH the surrounding landscape, along with reducing the amount of light that enters the Line further as more light would have to bounce off for the mirrors to even work as such.

And then there's the absolute tripe about "renewable energy". I don't see mention of a single nuclear reactor at all. you'd run out of power trying to light up this monstrosity and would have to resort to sapping from other power grids to get by.

[АНТОНСМОТРИТФИЛЬМЫ]

Sounds like a new show for Netflix that would be canceled after one season.

[JLC]

This is something i would design as a first year architecture student and my professor, without any hesitation call it ridiculous. 😂