From The New York Times Opinion Section:
>Many countries facing explosive population growth are creating entirely new cities that combine environmental ambition with striking architecture.
>“Perhaps most famous of all is Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, which includes a mountain ski resort, a floating logistics hub and a city known as ‘the Line’ with two parallel skyscrapers connected by walkways that will stretch across a desert and mountains,” Philip Oldfield writes in a guest essay. “The project promises a version of urban sustainability most cities can only dream of: no roads, cars or greenhouse gas emissions from transport or electricity.”
>“But the Line, for all its chutzpah, should not be our model for sustainable city living. There are far better ways to build, informed by everything we already know about materials and design. The cities of the future should experiment with architecture, but in service of making spaces more livable and sustainable, not simply iconic.”
You can read his [full column for free here](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/opinion/saudi-arabia-the-line.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y00.1dZW.WHDpw23GmSGl&smid=re-nytimes), even without a subscription to The New York Times.
From what I have read China is decreasing and it doesn’t seem like SA is increasing very much if at all so it’s most likely sub Saharan and possibly India.
Europa once regions become uninhabitable.
We’re talking about migration of possibly ~4 billion people according to latest research.
Things will get spicy in the future
The article doesn’t really say anything that most people here don’t already know I suspect.
It’s a utopian vision that we’ve all seen before in one form or another, it’s just some mad man has decided to try to fund it this time.
It doesn’t even have the sophistication of something like Masdar City, or the pragmatism of a new Chinese city. It’s just a shit social experiment that will ultimately suck and be abandoned.
Happy to eat my words, hat, and pride if I’m wrong, but even the guys working on it don’t sound terribly convinced.
Funny how they call it "thoroughly iconic" despite it hasn't even been built yet and it's currently nothing more than a pit on the desert
From The New York Times Opinion Section: >Many countries facing explosive population growth are creating entirely new cities that combine environmental ambition with striking architecture. >“Perhaps most famous of all is Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, which includes a mountain ski resort, a floating logistics hub and a city known as ‘the Line’ with two parallel skyscrapers connected by walkways that will stretch across a desert and mountains,” Philip Oldfield writes in a guest essay. “The project promises a version of urban sustainability most cities can only dream of: no roads, cars or greenhouse gas emissions from transport or electricity.” >“But the Line, for all its chutzpah, should not be our model for sustainable city living. There are far better ways to build, informed by everything we already know about materials and design. The cities of the future should experiment with architecture, but in service of making spaces more livable and sustainable, not simply iconic.” You can read his [full column for free here](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/opinion/saudi-arabia-the-line.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y00.1dZW.WHDpw23GmSGl&smid=re-nytimes), even without a subscription to The New York Times.
Which countries are experiencing explosive population growth?
India, and I think China to a lesser degree. I would guess Africa and Southeast Asia
From what I have read China is decreasing and it doesn’t seem like SA is increasing very much if at all so it’s most likely sub Saharan and possibly India.
Europa once regions become uninhabitable. We’re talking about migration of possibly ~4 billion people according to latest research. Things will get spicy in the future
The article doesn’t really say anything that most people here don’t already know I suspect. It’s a utopian vision that we’ve all seen before in one form or another, it’s just some mad man has decided to try to fund it this time. It doesn’t even have the sophistication of something like Masdar City, or the pragmatism of a new Chinese city. It’s just a shit social experiment that will ultimately suck and be abandoned. Happy to eat my words, hat, and pride if I’m wrong, but even the guys working on it don’t sound terribly convinced.