A Really Long Line

Jay Cruz

28 Aug 2025

Architect and Designer Daniel Titchener gives his take on The Line, a planned smart city expected to be built in Saudi Arabia that will span 170km(110 miles). That's a really long line.

The idea of The Line is to create a spatial city that's powered by renewable energy and controlled with Artificial Intelligence. It will have zero cars and zero streets, solving the problem of urban sprawl. But as Titchener demonstrates in his video, this sounds more like sci-fi dystopia.

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