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Kim Sengupta

$500 billion investment, 9 million residents, 100% renewable energy: Mohammed bin Salman unveils Saudi’s plan for city of the future

Neom’s designs for the Line

(Picture: NEOM/AFP via Getty Images)

The projected zero-carbon city of Neom being built in Saudi Arabia will have vertical layers of buildings for work, living and leisure stretching for 170 kilometres over a futuristic landscape, the Kingdom’s Crown Prince has declared.

Unveiling The Line, a primary feature of the $500bn project, Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced that the flagship development will be partly financed through a public listing in the country’s stock exchange in two years’ time, and would be subject to its own autonomous legal system.

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