Neom

 city, invisible, under construction, urban planning

Saudi Arabia will build on the shore of the Red Sea a city for 500 billion $ ultra-high tech future megacity of KSA.
The city plan includes the construction of a bridge across the Red Sea, which will connect Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Saudi Arabia is looking toward a post-oil future by sinking some US$500 billion into a massive, ultra-futuristic megacity project it calls Neom (or Neo-Mostaqbal; new future). Saudi Crown Prince Mohhamed bin Salman announced the giant project on Tuesday, a brand new city on the intersection of three countries, where "there is no room for old thinking."
The area earmarked for Neom, on the East coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, part of...
Neom: desert mountain ranges rise up to 2500 metres above sea level
Neom: scenic islands will need a bit of fixer-uppering before they becoe tourist destinations
Neom: pretty coastline with plenty of small islands
This bold new vision comes with a startling and unequivocal message from Saudi Arabia's next king to its ultra-conservative Wahhabi clerics: "We are returning to what we were before, a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world. We will not waste 30 years of our lives, wasting time dealing with extremist ideas. We will destroy them today."
The area earmarked for Neom, on the East coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, part of...
Neom represents a radical shift in thinking. This giant city will be built to straddle the borders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, with a total area around 26,500 square kilometres on the East side of the Gulf of Aqaba. The current project map, mind you, shows an area entirely within the Saudi Arabian border. For it to straddle borders, it'll need to include both sides of the gulf – and it's worth noting that Israel owns a tiny slice of that waterfront too, home to the resort town and sea port of Eilat

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