I’m in love with the concept itself! I’d love to live in something like this. I love the walkability idea and the mirror design on the outside.
Sadly, this is not getting built as designed and double sadly is it’s being planned by a PoS running a PoS government.
Also I feel like cities aren’t meant to be designed this way. If nobody lives there, people aren’t gonna want to move there. If nobody is moving there, there won’t be anyone living there. Defeats the entire purpose.
It won’t ever be finished, of course, but I’d be curious as to what incentives they’d offer for moving there.
The mirror idea is really interesting, maybe they want to make the city seem "invisible" to the outside?
I think the hope is attracting investors maybe like Dubai. Turn it into another international hub. There are strong institutional issues with this (especially considering the Kingdom's saudification drive) but I think building it in a relatively sparser area is an attempt to circumvent this.
Sadly, this is not getting built as designed and double sadly is it’s being planned by a PoS running a PoS government.
Also I feel like cities aren’t meant to be designed this way. If nobody lives there, people aren’t gonna want to move there. If nobody is moving there, there won’t be anyone living there. Defeats the entire purpose.
It won’t ever be finished, of course, but I’d be curious as to what incentives they’d offer for moving there.