End of the Line? – Why the Saudi super city is doomed to fail

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Two years ago, Saudi Arabia announced it was creating a city of the future: known as The Line. Is it actually going to happen? The proposed 110-mile-long smart city of skyscrapers would be fueled by green energy and controlled by Artificial Intelligence. While the urban experiment is currently under development, many believe that the city is just a sci-fi dream that will never see the light of day. Joining Ros Taylor in The Bunker today is Matthew Blunderfield, the host of architecture podcast Scaffold, to answer the question: what would the perfect city of the future look like? “Imagine a tower taller than the Empire State Building, extruded from Birmingham to Leeds and then doubled. That's the Line.” “There’s an underlying violence in forming this project.” “We don’t know what will happen to the ecosystem when we erect an enormous tall wall in the middle of a desert.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Simon Williams. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.0	You might have heard of the city in the desert
1:16.0	that's being built in Saudi Arabia.
1:18.0	It's the idea of the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
1:21.0	It's called the line and it is in theory a city for the greater good a revolution in urban living.
1:27.5	It will be unlike any city you've seen before. But could the perfect city ever really exist and what would it look like anyway?
1:36.2	With me to chat about that is Matthew Blunderfield who teaches architecture at the Royal College
1:40.6	of Art and he's the host of the podcast Scaffold.
1:43.7	Welcome to the bunker Matthew.
1:45.2	Hi Riz, thanks for having me.
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