Is THE LINE the perfect city layout in Cities Skylines?

I built The Line in Cities Skylines, this is a city that is supposedly being built in real life in Saudi Arabia. How does it fare in Cities Skylines? Is NEOM The Line a product of engineering or architecture?

According to Neom, The Line is:
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.

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[crazyguys]

Never understood the "landscaping and disasters" menu but the more videos Matt makes, the more it makes sense

[nathanielarthurhardy]

You could change the name of "The Line" to "The Shaft", because after all you've improved the initial design by leaps and bounds.

[achmodinivswe]

That glass structure would probably make more glass out of the sand around it

[SnowyBlizzard]

What’s crazy is the only natural sunlight you ever get inside the line is the direct kind, making sunrise and sunset like 45 minutes apart😂

[wow-roblox]

Fun fact: you can just ban cars in this game without using any mods, simply just zone the city region, or make it city wide and you too can make a more realistic line!

[ChengTeoh]

Architect : "I've got a great idea, why don't we build a city out of glass in the desert that's the shape of a line"
Engineer : "Ah shit, here we go again"

[rickswordfire]

2:52 Curved shape gives it the strength to withstand a tsunami. Brilliant engineering decision.

[stalhein]

I remain convinced that this city in Saudi Arabia is inspired by RTGame's one road city.

[LuckyLPGames]

They should've first tried to build the whole thing in Minecraft creative mode and they would've seen that even given the ability to instantly place 1x1 meter squared portions of it and with the power of flight it'd still take them a very very long time to do, will look cool abandoned

[Lah-kahn]

A 170km long glass wall in the desert. So I guess architects don't know what a sandblaster is or does huh? Cause that's literally what this building would be sitting inside. A giant permanent sandblaster, constantly bombarding the exterior with that fine desert sand.

[williamhuang]

The single line design has a major flaw: if there is a failure anywhere along the line, the entire city is split in half. Also the reason why cities aren't a straight line is geometry- with a traditional city, you are closer to everything but with a line, everything's much further apart.

[DolphinsAreWeird]

The city's concept and design looks so dystopian. 
Levels with people living up above near the sun, trees, and possibly where the water and food will go through first (which will definitely not encourage some greed) and people squabbling in the tight, dark, cramped, and industrialized lower levels wondering why there's less water than yesterday. It's in a desert too so water will be a very tough issue, possibly being rationed out (probably in the most profitable way possible aka the richest gets the mostest).

[djpiercy]

6:40 you don't have to use floodwalls for this, any road built on flat terrain will keep it's height, allowing you to make straight dirt cliffs at much lower cost and space efficiency

[kevinsrides]

Level the terrain, draw two roads at the distance apart that you want, then raise the terrain outside the two parallel roads to the level you want. You now have two parallel raised elevations forming the outside of the linear city.

[PhycoKrusk]

I will simply say this: When he was still alive, Walt Disney's idea for EPCOT still incorporated cars; they were just all driving on a subterranean levels so that the entire surface could be reserved for pedestrians, and everything _was_ able to be within a 5 minute walk from any residence because nothing was limited by the need for non-pedestrian traffic.

It also wasn't built with tiers, so it didn't create the appearance of a hierarchy, but hey, what do I know about anything?

[owlhatch]

Glad I wasn't the only one that was like "why in glass in the desert?!" I was thinking to stop sandstorms or something to do with heat.

[Gohka]

I cannot even begin to fathom the effect on the weather having a 500 metre tall and 170 kilometre long wall of glass will have.
How long would it take to clean the entire wall?
Who has the unfortunate job of clearing away the probably hundreds of tons of sand that will collect against the side of the wall, probably every day?

[liathedigger]

It's really funny how if there happens any problem in the middle of the line, you lose half the city

[tigrecito]

13:56 thats really clever to put all the pollution & fumes low down.. cos as we know... fumes like to stay low, im sure people crossing the bridges wont go unconscious or fall into comas or anything

[alexrhinehart]

The mirrored walls, if they were solar panels, could be used to generate drinkable water from the ocean as well as producing power for the whole city.