In the Studio: The Line

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In our time of looming ecological disaster, radical minds are needed to rethink the way we live. In Saudi Arabia, NEOM are building a futuristic new city: The Line. The Line will consist of two gigantic, unbroken rows of skyscrapers, with living space in-between. Nicknamed 'the groundscraper', The Line is planned to be taller than any building in Europe, Africa or Latin America - and 10 times denser than Manhattan, with nine million people expected to live inside. We meet the architects behind The Line, and take a journey to the city of the future.

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0:00.0	So, have you heard of The Line?
0:03.4	No.
0:05.1	Dude, okay.
0:06.4	The Loin.
0:07.3	This thing is insane.
0:08.7	The line.
0:09.9	Have you seen that?
0:10.5	Oh, no.
0:11.2	Oh, my.
0:12.0	You're going to freak out.
0:13.8	The line?
0:14.4	You've got to see this.
0:15.1	Somewhere in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, the city of the future is emerging out of the sands.
0:22.8	Some mega city.
0:24.4	Basically, imagine like a city, right?
0:26.4	And you put all of that into a line.
0:29.2	Into a line.
0:31.0	The city that is straight out of the future.
0:34.1	I mean, it's SimCity.
0:35.2	So 150 miles long, you can get from one side to the other in 20 minutes.
0:39.3	So you can go it.
0:40.7	Look how high it is.
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