Tarek Qaddumi, executive director of NEOM urban planning, explains NEOM to the media in Hong Kong on April 19. CHINA DAILY Saudi Arabia's futuristic city of NEOM will redefine the concepts of living, education, healthcare, and sports through its three pillars of nature conservation, human livability, and economic prosperity, according to Tarek Qaddumi, executive director of urban planning of NEOM. …
A vast mega-city is rising from the Saudi Arabian desert, 30 times larger than New York, built with a mixture of concrete, steel and unbridled ambition. The initial budget is huge — $US500 billion — and as a pet project of Saudi Arabia's young ruler, Mohammed bin Salman it's backed by the vast wealth of the House of Saud. "It …
