I confess I'm skeptical if this Saudi white elephant project will ever be finished. But reddit has such a stupid borderline irrational hate boner for anything being build by the Gulf Monarchies, they always REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE with every post about Dubai, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, le slave pajheet wokers amerite? 
Subs like /r/architecture and urbanplanning are particularly narrow minded and predictable. They like trains, cycle ways and no cars, they also hate skyscrapers(THE HUBRIS THE VANITY THE GREED 
) and like 5-story commie blocks and straggy Sweden or Dutch style buildings and is SO DARN BORING. To heck with that, I want cool 1km tall skyscrapers, NYC is one of the few American metropolises adding a bunch of them to their skyline.
What an enormous waste of resources and ecological destruction.
'Ecological destruction', I mean the vast majority of Saudi is arid desert totally unable to support any form of life
Deserts aren't “unable to support life”. Theres a rich ecosystem there just like everywhere else.
NOOO STOP DESTROYING THE DESERTS 
"Archeologists are unable to determine why such an obviously dumb city was constructed in the early 21st century. Theories point to some kind of religious meaning or possibly a case of mass insanity."
“The latter hypothesis is supported by fragments of the only surviving written record of its existence: ‘Neom is a parody' by Adam of Something. More specifically it is quoted at length in a much larger work from the beginning of the second dark age titled ‘A Compilation of Notable YouTube Orations' by the internet antiquarian Wriz426769. This larger work has come down to us in only a single manuscript copied from the original.”
ADAM SOMETHING REFERENCE 
That cute twink is the representative of the collective mind of reddit's “architects” and “urbanists” btw.
Why is like 100% everyone against it? Genuinely curious. Usually when shit like this pop up you see atleast a couple of devil's advocates but it's just straight up opposition here, and that too, very strong. I'm not an architect or engineer myself but I do realize that the project looks really stupid, just from common sense, and I do realize some of you are actually professionals but I'm sure the people working on it aren't r-slurs either, and while this may definitely be a failed stunt for the rich oil people I don't really get the pessimism and hate for it. Wouldn't actually be the first time humans did something that the world would've considered impossible and a fool's errand.
Edit: I'm not advocating for this lol, I've known people who have spent time in Saudi, and I realize it's a shithole built on the sweat and blood or slave labours from other Asian countries, I get that this project is most definitely doing the same and I get that it's morally wrong, but why do you oppose this as an architectural project?
Someone decided to question the circlejerk
This Video perfectly sums up what it's like Working With a Crazy autocrat and why so many stupid projects pop up in Saudi Arabia/ UAE.
WATCH THE ADAM SOMETHING VIDEO 
Racism, literally it. This is said about literally every project made in the Arab nations specially the GCC.
And it's hilarious how the ppl in here say with such confidence “it's not gonna be built” as if the dozens and possibly thousands of experts involved in this project know less than these random redditors or some youtubers, many structures in human history were thought to be impossible to make yet they were made
Piss off with the racism. It's an architectural abomination and benefits no one but a select few.
Bonus
Urbanhell discusses @Aevann new capital
Adam Something did a great video on this already.
lmao 
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are they stupid?
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They think skyscrapers are unpractical and monuments of vanity. So they want apartment blocks buildings that are about 5-10 stories tall. I don't remember which sub they posted that 5 stories was ideal or something.
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5 stories is as high as you can go with a lumber frame. Any higher and you need steel.
That might have turned into "5 stories is optimal" via a game of circlejerk chinese whispers.
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Which is funny considering buildings in Europe (which they admire) and the commie blocks are made of reinforced concrete.
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Every new development looks like soulless
butt. Nothing will top the 5 story 
neo baroque neighborhoods made out of sandstone.
For some reason we can no longer build
like this, only white 
concrete 
Globohomo cubes allowed.
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You may not like it, but this is what peak performance urbanism looks like
!macacos
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One of the most depressing things I've seen is when I was reading about some city in ancient Sicily and I look it up now and it's 100 identical ugly white apartment blocks.
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Você adicionou a foto da minha linda cidade depois, quando eu respondi era só Goiânia
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Segunda foto é Curitiba
A primeira é Goiânia que sempre me pareceu “generic planned Br city”
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Houses look like auto dealerships or dentist offices nowadays
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I kinda like brutalist architecture if it's also pragmatic and think commieblocks aren't bad if there are other options for people to live
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Yes (?) is that a trick question?
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fricking r-slurred
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NOOO NOT THE BEAUTIFUL PRISTINE DESERT THINK ABOUT THE ECOSYSTEM IT HARBORS
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Look just because there's fewer organisms, fewer species, very little biomass, and very little energy moving through the system doesn't make it any less rich.
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They reduced the size of the fricking thing to 1km LMAO
sandBIPOCs and their money are soon parted unlike the jewish lives matter shekelsteins that own 108 central banks
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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/29/saudi-arabia-says-all-neom-megaprojects-will-go-ahead-as-planned.html
The arabBIPOCs say it's still going according to what was originally planned
170 km always sounded ludicrous lol
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Maybe by 2074 and 6 gorillion over budget, unless the oil shiekhs say jewish lives matter
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I hope they just turn this into the world's largest linear accelerator
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This thing has become so hated by so many people that I'm starting to root for its success.
I just want millions of people to be wrong and have to eat their words even if I do think its dumb
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Urban plancels are giga tards but if you're even slightly defending the line your hatred for them has poisoned your mind.
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Neom WILL fail purely because it has the same marketing gimmick style as SOLAR FREAKIN ROADWAYS, Kony 2012, Hyperloop, and Nikola Motors Hydrogen.
Anyone that legitimately thinks this will come to fruition is an 80 IQ pop science enjoyer
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Sure it may fail, but if it pisses off Redditors then I'm barracking for the SandBIPOCs
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I am not without criticism for Arab nations but I start to unironically seethe when some Left coast bluehair starts lecturing Saudi Arabia for wanting to do something with their endless expanse of useless desert.
Like these radlibs realize the Europe they stan so much looks nothing like it did in the Bronze age. That the desert currently in the Arabian peninsula wasn't there 5500 years ago, when it used to be fertile grassland, full of lakes and rivers?
It's their country to manage as the see fit, so if they want to invest in it by taking a gamble, that's their prerogative. I wouldn't be so quick to write them off. Anyway, I think this is part of the plan of making SA part of the west. I think many of the recent legal changes in allowing Alcohol and citizenship for foreigners and building a hypermodern city are designed to attract Euros, Burgers, and other highly skilled professionals to the area, as a kind of mirror image Israel. Another modern secular area of the ME.
It's harder to get bombed by the west when you have a bunch of westerners living in your country.
At this point I hope they succeed because it makes the frickcars crowd mad
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Yeah MBS definitely understands that the way they've been running the country until now is unsustainable and they've got to make drastic changes. Transform it into a normal modern country where the economy isn't just oil.
I have my doubts if he can pull it off though. The shah actually made a pretty decent attempt in Iran and we see how that turned out.
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That's great and all, but I asked for my burger without cheese.
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I hate the line because it's a 15 min walkable city.
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Honestly frick any city where I can't curb park my 911.
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I'm with the
s, this looks dumb
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If I ever see you in real life I'll fricking make you eat cement. You got that, b-word? If it wasn't your mom coming downstairs to the basement each night to bring you a plate of chicken tenders, you would be dead with droll running into the cracks of your cheeto dust covered keyboard. I bet you weight about 400 pounds and have a string tied to your peepee you use so you can piss. The fact you have to keep making new accounts suggest you need a new hobby. Stop being a piece of shit troll and find something creative to do. You only have so much time left before your arteries clog and Coonrod lowers your 2000 pounds casket into the ground with a fricking crane.
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