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I don’t know if this applies so much to Neom, but I can think of many scenarios in which a linear city is more appealing than a circular one. For example - if
by keiferski 3y ago
I don’t know if this applies so much to Neom, but I can think of many scenarios in which a linear city is more appealing than a circular one.
For example - if there is a natural element like a river, lake, canyon, etc. that you want to maximize city exposure to. A linear city roughly following the Grand Canyon would be infinitely more interesting than a circular one situated at one end of it.
- Moldoteck 3y agoin the end it'll still be 'disk like'. You build along the river, distances are getting big and suddenly you realize there's a lot of unused space where you can expand the building of the city while maintaining short commute time(building perpendicular to the river/expanding the width of the city), meaning even more money, more people, more economic activity. In fact most of big cities built on rivers started as small communes that gradually expanded in each direction
- gherkinnn 3y agoCountless major cities and towns are built on either side a river. Anything beyond a village quickly evolves in to something roughly circular.