{"title":"Arguments for building The Circle and not The Line in Saudi Arabia","authors":"Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Dániel Kondor","doi":"10.1038/s42949-023-00115-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Saudi Arabia plans to construct a new city, home to 9 million people. The most relevant aspect is its form, a line with a surprising length of 170 km. We analyse whether this is the best plan for a new city and some inconveniences of the prolonged urban form.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-023-00115-y.pdf","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"npj urban sustainability","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-023-00115-y","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Saudi Arabia plans to construct a new city, home to 9 million people. The most relevant aspect is its form, a line with a surprising length of 170 km. We analyse whether this is the best plan for a new city and some inconveniences of the prolonged urban form.