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Edwin Heathcote: Saudi’s Neom is dystopia portrayed as Utopia

5 mins | Aug 4, 2022
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An analysis of MBS's city of the future. Neom is a city defined as a wall, driven through an uninhabitable desert in Saudi Arabia, hermetically sealed and reliant solely on technology to make it liveable. Edwin Heathcote argues that its vast carbon footprint makes it anything but a city of the future.

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