Is this satire? Surely this must be satire. Because every point you just listed is wrong. > Everyone on both side gets unblocked full vista. There are no other

Is this satire? Surely this must be satire. Because every point you just listed is wrong. > Everyone on both side gets unblocked full vista. There are no other buildings blocking the view or the sun. This is meant to be 500 metres wide! Only the few on the outside get the view. > Navigation is super easy. No getting lost in the city. Navigation is really difficult if there's a blockage in your way or your destination is really far! You could also get lost - on foot! - in a three dimensional urban jungle. > One single public (or private) transportation line (Metro, Bus, etc.), no criss crossing complicated routes. No calculation for what is the optimal route between two points in the city. This is also reallllllly fragile. If there's a blockage, power failure, accident then you have real trouble. > Same holds true for essentials like water, electricity, sewage etc. One straight uncomplicated pipe infrastructure - easy to lay, maintain. See above, also getting water into this... thing... is far from uncomplicated in the first place. No rivers, no natural water. And if it's all supplied through the city (as in, through 170km or whatever) where's the redundancy? What if the water pipes break? What if the sewage pipes spill? > Incase of emergency easy and super fast evacuation, everyone simultaneously 'spills out' of the walls on either side. No long travel through city, getting blocked due to traffic jams. Great, you have successfully evacuated everyone into the desert. How are you going to keep them alive? Evacuate them? Which scenarios is this a benefit? I can think of - maybe - a fire? But then fires in high rise build are already extremely deadly and this is a big high building, so it's not going to help > With proper planning of shades, HVAC, etc. climate control could be more energy efficient. Forget shade, there is none. Climate control - this is a 500m x 500m x 17000m building. This is never going to be efficent. EVER. Transport - distances between points have been absolutely maximised so it's also incredibly inefficient. Water? How do you get water in Saudi Arabia with NO RIVERS NEARBY? A massive desalination plant presumably - so again, NOT EFFICIENT.