5 points in the smart city project worth 500 billion USD planned by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
It will be a 106-mile narrow urban strip with no roads, no cars, and no pollution.
Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, has announced one of the greatest and most complex construction projects in history, involving the transformation of a desert the size of Belgium into an area. high-tech city called Neom.
Here are 5 points about the future city being planned by MBS:
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The crown prince of Saudi Arabia introduced Neom as the city that will reform the Saudi economy and as a testing ground for technology that could revolutionize daily life, with a budget of $500 billion.
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There are many attractive features, which make the city stand out from anything that has been built to date. Based on BloombergNeom’s “style catalog” features airplane lifts, an urban spaceport and structures styled as a double helix, the outstretched wings of a falcon and a blooming flower flourish.
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It will be a 106-mile narrow urban strip with no roads, no cars, and no pollution. MBS calls it a “civilization revolution”, which will one day be home to a million people “from all over the world”.
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The Crown Prince’s vision is stressing the staff involved in city planning. Based on The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)MBS asked them to build 10 palaces, each bigger than a football field. The sales agency reviewed the project’s plans, suggesting that homes could be as much as $400 million each.
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The futuristic megalopolis is said to be 33 times the size of New York, with an area of 26,500 square kilometers stretching along the Gulf of Aqaba and Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coastline. The name Neom is a combination of the Greek term Neo and the Arabic word for “future”.
