The stupidest idea for a city that I've ever heard has gotten marginally less stupid.
At least now you can get from one side to the other quickly in an emergency.
Not that they'll even build these 2.4 km.
I think it came up like this: Saudi king at his last visit at Chinese Wall. „Uw, one can see it from the space? That’s awesome.“ At home: „Servants, build something as big as the Chinese Wall that is visible from the space, so everyone sees how great I am.“
I'm pretty sure the whole "can be seen from space" is wrong.
Ever used Google Maps? Everything can be seen from space.
Some things are too small to be seen from anywhere.
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It was the crown prince, not the king, but I'm pretty sure that's more or less how it went.
That would be crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, because king Salman has retired in all but name
Is that bone saw cunt, or some other auth piece of shit cunt?
That is Mr. Bone Saw(MBS)
I live in the city (Terre Haute, Indiana) where Mr. Kashoggi, the man who was murdered by MBS, went to school (Indiana State University) and there was very little outcry, which saddened me greatly.
Yes it’s Mr Bone Saw
Ask anyone who's ever built a house and they can tell you what a stupid fucking idea it would be to have a foundation that large.
Even if they somehow had some magical way to solve the foundation issue, with the original plan... could you imagine having to go from one part of the city to another for pretty much any reason? In a linear city? You better hope that other part is really close. Especially if it's a personal medical issue or a dying loved one.
Also: this city has only one road. How is traffic going to be? Better hope you somehow get a flat near your work, and that everyone else does too, and that nobody ever moves or cha'mnges job for any reason. This is such a horsehit project I'm surprised the guy who proposed it didn't get thrown out of the window like in the meme.
Their plan was to have most people commute by train and have a veritable army of self-driving trains. That's easily the most well thought part of the harebrained idea.
Never mind commuter traffic, imagine how long it would take necessary commodities to the right places in a timely manner!
Do we have a list of stupid city ideas? I think El Salvador’s Bitcoin City and Egypt’s new capital should belong there.
If you're interested in the inner workings of shitty civic planning check out James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State. He's an anthropologist who took a particular interest in why top-down societies always seem to miss the mark in infrastructure, ecology, agriculture, and social services (among others). A significant portion of the book is spent critically analyzing Le Corbusier's work and his ideological contemporaries. With Brasilia as a case study for the failures of "high modernist" ideology and design philosophy. It's a great read and I think a lot of these new urban planning projects that are obviously insane and impractical owe a lot to these batshit crazy people from the past that founded this particular flavor of foolish
This is truly the most moronic project ever, but at least I had a good laugh about it today.
It's even dumber than dumping sand into the ocean in the shape of a palm tree and calling it a suburb.
It is unclear how it intends to house a higher concentration of people considering the proposed length (and therefore area) has been massively slashed.
I got a brilliant idea: extend it slightly to the sides, maybe in a round shape. This allows for a more efficient way to house a high concentration of people.
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Huge waste of time and money. That effort could be focused on many better and more reasonable projects. This is what happens when fucking idiots get a ton of money inherited from their parents. We should never have relied on Saudi oil, it's been a drain on humanity.
I think at that point it's a town.
desert sun's rays nuke the lake in front of glass wall/city
"Where lake go?"
That's not a big problem since this is in a desert. Getting any water there in the first place is the problem. And, based on the mockups I saw, there's supposed to be a lot of greenery.
water policies of saudi arabia are straight up insane. riyadh takes half of water from seashore desalination plants (that burn massive amounts of oil, so big that it cuts into their oil revenue very significantly). for the other half, they have somehow found non-renewable water, literal fossil water, and it'll run out in decade (might have misremembered). at the same time there are no water meters in the city at all
at the same time there are no water meters in the city at all
Apparently Ireland hasn't billed for water either, and the prospect of the introduction of billing had activists objecting on grounds like "you can't charge for water, water is life-critical and a human right". I remember reading comments on /r/Europe from Irish readers who were really upset at the prospect of needing to pay for water.
googles
It looks like as implemented, billing is only for households that use substantially more than the average and start going out late this year:
https://www.moneyguideireland.com/water-charges-2017-new-rules.html
The latest information from Irish Water is that the earliest that excess charges will apply is Q3 2023 at the earliest.
So the earliest any household will get a bill from Irish Water is October 2024.
ireland has less issues with potable water supply i suspect
also unrelated but why are you googling loudly
You've missed the point that the government had relatively recently introduced a 'temporary' Universal Service Charge during the recession and had not (and have not to this day) removed it. I was in favour of metering water but the argument wasn't as simplistic as you're making it.
Ireland being a low density country with an inundation of fresh water rain and springs is certainly worth mentioning when comparing with Saudi Arabia though...
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