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Re:A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert.... by m348e912 on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:50AM (#32307797)
When I read about it a week or two ago it struck me as an incredibly dumb idea. However KSA has hired some pretty big global architecture firms to design this city and I have to imagine they know better than I do.
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Re:A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert.... by dragonwriter on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:17PM (#32308285)
> However KSA has hired some pretty big global architecture firms to design this city and I have to imagine they know better than I do.

And what they know is “we have a fantastically rich client and an ego-driven vanity project to milk”.

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Re:A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert.... by joney_baloney on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:03PM (#32308045)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mbs-neom-saudi-arabi...

Maybe so, but they might just be willing to take MBS's money to nod and make cool designs that will probably never get built. Which, can't really blame them.

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Re:A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert.... by pottertheotter on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:01PM (#32308995)
Yeah, this is just a no brainer. It’s free money.
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