The Line is now more of The Hyphen https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/20/saudi-crowm-prince-vanity-project-line-cut-short-rowan-moore

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Wow. Who could have possibly guessed they'd never be able to actually build a 105 mile long megastructure in the desert? What a surprise.

In favor of calling it The Em Dash

I spent a few years working on government projects in the GCC a long time ago

Each one of these projects goes through a cycle of lets build this thing no one needs, lets make it big, lets compete with Dubai/Burj Khalifa (which has no functioning sewage system), oh lets scale it back

Interesting, they introduced new adjacent projects a few months ago and now this. 

Now it will be a single (but long) building, not a city.