THE LINE | The City of the Future

Join renowned physicist and best-selling author Professor Michio Kaku on his visit to THE LINE at #NEOM.

With him as your guide, take a tour into how our revolutionary city will tackle the traditional urban challenges of traffic, pollution and overcrowding.
#TheLINE

[lllshreelll]

Michio Kaku realised there's more money in this than physics

[RickySoundzzOfficial]

It will be interesting to see a city not made out of brick and steel but giant mirrors and buzzwords

[KuriusOranj]

Since I first heard of this, my main question has been, "why a line, and not another shape?" Other shapes could fulfill the density design, but greatly decrease the round-trip factor. A circle, triangle, grid, or even a Celtic Knot could achieve the same basic goals of density and relative ease of access to amenities while greatly decreasing the footprint and time it takes for a subway train to return to its origin location after reaching its last stop.

[joemadonia]

I dont want to live in a box, I want to see the sky in a panoramic view, I want to travel on the road in my 1970 Chevelle and see the land and the trees and life all around me. This concept is very nice for some people but not for all.

[phoenix]

"I'm sold!" - Michio Kaku
Yes, we know.

[asifnawaz]

As the project LINE planed for 170 Km long, initially they must build a complete mockup of around 1-5 km of line to prove the world that the line is practically possible to stay, transport & move around

[JesseDishner]

Really allows complete control of the citizens in the line.

[RedCoat]

I legit thought this was a teaser for Apple TV’s next dystopian sci fi drama.

[dominnno]

in the future when the line gets finished:
“Mom, what’s outside the walls?”
“Monsters, titans.”

[ScentualBeauty]

Due to bad weather, I was trapped on a cruise ship for several days and the ship was not able to go to port. I couldn't wait to get off that ship. I canNOT imagine living like this forever.

[FalloutConspiracy]

The Line is quite ambitious, to say the least. If they can manage to pull this off it's going to be a game changer for urban planning around the entire planet. I hope they can execute on their ambitious architectural vision and brings their plans to fruition in a way that's welcoming, sustainable, and conducive to communal living.

[angwantibo]

7:43 "Our challenges on THE LINE are not to eliminate the bad stuff because that's already not there." Let's see how this will turn out. Do they really think problems disappear when you just ignore them in the planning?

[Miketvpr]

This is very ambitious, if this works is definitely going to change people perspective of living in my point of view. If it works out i am definitely going to visit to see it myself. I am a graphic designer always loving what people ideas are. I feel that if this city works out i see the cities in the west dying.

[oguzkaganerge]

When I heard this first, I remembered the book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, in a way that this approach actually creates a new community in the world, and separates some of us from others. If you ask why, just think about who is gonna live here? you? me? or the people who make more money than others. It is a perfect project in a way, but also very bad for the rest. It is exactly like the name of the book; Brave. New. World. So today's cities will transform into the outer place of the "line."

[nikinik]

I'm interested in discovering what the apartments look like, how the people are seen to interact and how sunlight is incorporated into the project and the cost to live there. This will be interesting to watch.

[OldGamerPapi]

The thought of being crammed in such a confined space, no matter how convenient everything is, is sickening to me. All I can imagine in an aesthetically pleasing 1984

[igoromelchenko]

Such an abundance of grandiloquent expressions and convoluted phrases are employed, as to cloak one's arrogance, boastfulness, and intoxication with power over people and their destinies in a veneer of nobility.

[DONTCALLMETHAT]

If this thing ever comes to fruition, it won't be for poor people

[amirrahbar]

I wonder
-what is the cost of construction per square meters and the ROI period and
The maintenance costs on this project .
-Where do lower income and service people live on such a project ?
- will such a project be possible and sustainable without the enormous initial investment needed for it ?
-will there be a social class and status division like any normal city ?
-will people eventually abandon this city to live in a normal city ?
-Will there be normal cites built along sides of it to serve this giant system ?
And many other practical and social questions that comes to my mind as an expat architect who lived and practiced in Dubai for the past 43 years and still curious . Maybe I ask AI ?

[jaychrist]

I think its cool and cant wait to visit, and then fly home to my farm and never visit again.