UTOPIAN CITIES
“The main task today is to reinvent Utopia…We should dare to enact the impossible; we should rediscover how to, not imagine, but to enact utopias. The point is not of planning utopias; the point is about practicing them. And I think this is not a question of “should we do it or should we persist in the existing order? It’s a much more radical question, a matter of survival: the future will be utopian or there will be none.”
——Slavoj Žižek, 2003
THE LINE (LINEAR CITY)
(NEOM, SAUDI ARABIA)
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Location:
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Neom, Saudi Arabia (Area linking the coast of the Red Sea w/ the mountains and upper valleys of the north-west of Saudi Arabia)
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Intended Population:
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9,000,000
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Estimated Year of Completion:
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2030; construction will continue thru 2050
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Architect/Designer:
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NEOM; Studio Morphosis
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Interesting Facts/Unique Characteristics:
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Only 200 meters wide, but 170 kilometers long and 500 meters above sea level
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Everything will be within a 5 minute walk
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Mission:
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To be a destination and home for people with large aspirations and seek to be a part of building a new model for sustainable living and in turn improve future societies
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TELOSA (MEGA-CITY)
(Desert, United States)
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Location:
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​Currently Unknown, but looking at the following areas: Texas, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona as well as Appalachia
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Intended Population:
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1,000,000 (10-20 years); 5,000,000 (30-40 years)
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Estimated Year of Completion:
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10-40 years
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Architect/Designer:
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​ Mark Lore, private investors, philanthropists, subsidiaries, and Federal/State grants
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Interesting Facts/Unique Characteristics:
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Keen on equality and inclusivity
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Fresh water is stored, cleaned, and reused on site
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Mission:
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​To create an inclusive, carbon-neutral city that allows for technology to continue to prosper while also cutting down on carbon emission issues
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