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Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.

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Episode Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.

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Send us a textSaudi Arabia’s plan to build a 170km long, 500m tall, mirrored city in the desert, filled with 9 million people has been curtailed to 2.4km long.According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line is the most significant sub-project.The Saudi government had hoped to have 9M residents living in The Line by 2030, but this has been scaled back to fewer than 300,000, according to the report.The curtailment of plan...

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