While "The Line" in NEOM is a visionary concept, its linear structure poses inherent challenges in transportation, infrastructure distribution, and potential economic disparities. A city's design should prioritize the ease of movement, equitable access to resources, and environmental integration.Unsustainable construction
The realisation of the project will involve large land movements, huge infrastructures to transport vehicles, energy, water and waste, and the use of a colossal amount of materials whose extraction emits CO2.The Line is displacing the people who already live on the land where it is being built. 47 members of the Howeitat tribe, who have lived there for centuries, were arrested in February for speaking out against the project's displacement of their people.Howeitat tribe is losing their place to live.
