Ever travel out western USA? The Strip city or then a mall grew from shops on both sides of the street, followed by parallel streets and cross streets. This Sau

Ever travel out western USA? The Strip city or then a mall grew from shops on both sides of the street, followed by parallel streets and cross streets. This Saudi concept is a parametric variation. They have free desert and oil $$ - they know when the oil is gone, they are gone, so they want a linear city. The historic bull's eye city has it's problems of scarce land at the center, so they want to linearise add cross streets, covered electric car roads, and do on. With the right build it might work out well.