The Line City of The Future

They do say that a line is the start of every artistic masterpiece.

This has been proven true in many cases, including the Line City project which shows great potential in the art of human resourcefulness.

This project, named The Line, is a smart city under construction in Neom, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia, and will be created to have zero cars on streets and carbon emissions. As its name suggests, it is the first city to be constructed in a straight line. With its sole reliance on renewable energy, it may become the ideal city.

The plan was announced on January 10, 2021, by the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman.

Three layers would make up the city: a pedestrian-friendly ground level, an underground level for infrastructure and transportation-related subsurface level. The city will be surveyed using artificial intelligence, and prediction and statistical models will be utilized to look for methods to improve the residents’ quality of life. When all of these features are combined, this city would resemble those in our favorite science-fiction films set in the far future.

Two large mirror-like structures would make up this utopian city, with a lovely outdoor area separating them. They are intended to measure 200 meters in width, 170 kilometers in length, and 500 total meters in height. From the Red Sea, it will travel to Tabuk City. Furthermore, according to the plans, the city may house close to 9 million people.

Nevertheless, the project has drawn criticism for its effects on the local environment and population and concerns about its technological and financial sustainability. Additionally, concerns about creating a “dystopian” or “artificial” facility are similar to those in science fiction films, which almost always have bad outcomes.

However, there is no denying that this is a good strategy for fighting pollution. The creation of

Line City has many reasons, and being environmentally friendly is one of them. By eliminating carbon-intensive infrastructure like cars and highways, the city will have a net-zero carbon footprint.

Renewable energy will fuel all of its activities, even the operations of its industries. The city will have unparalleled accessibility to nature and the usage of open areas and elements of nature will substantially enhance the quality of air.

The innovative structures of the city offer easy and uninterrupted access to the outdoors in a couple-minute stroll through its different open spaces, elevated on multiple levels. Because of a fewer physical trails, everybody will be given equal exposure to nearby mountains, sky, and natural scenery while hindering urban expansion. It offers a year-round climate where the environment has been carefully designed to offer the optimal balance of direct sunlight, shading, and air flow from nature.

The city is intended for people rather than for technology. A cognitive city that anticipates and reacts to what we need, not the other way around. A greater density imprint from living in zero gravity will improve our everyday lives and create opportunities for business.

Although the project still has significant shortcomings, particularly in construction, the project’s ability to provide a long-term solution to some of the most pressing issues facing the globe now is its key characteristic.

Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman said that the the LINE will solve problems associated with urban life and will present different lifestyle options while adding that environmental and living conditions issues confronting cities must not be disregarded.

We currently have no choice but to await the result of this project. We must hope that the Philippine administration will adopt this strategy if it proves to be a dependable answer to urbanization and pollution.

Recovery, revival in one Agri-Fair

A flood can kill hard-toiled crops, but not the hope of the people in Siocon.

Just this January 11, 2023, due to a low-pressure area reported by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Service Administration, the Municipality of Siocon has been drowned by yellow to light yellow waters. Homes were infiltrated, which consequently damaged appliances and furniture pieces. However, the resilience of the people of Siocon is indestructible. And this is magnified by the showcase of various agricultural products during the Agri-Fair 2023 of Siocon on March 6.

Erdulfo G. Comisas Jr., the barangay captain of Makiang, said that in joining the agribooth competition, they could not display some of the products that their barangay usually harvests.

The circular livelihoods of the residents of Siocon revolve around farming and livestock rearing. Its roads are surrounded by hectares of rice fields where farmers bend their backs and knees amidst the sun’s intense heat.

Because of this, Hon. Mayor Ceasar C. Soriano, with the initiative of the president of the Department of Agriculture in the Municipality of Siocon, Maribec S. Mejos, opens AgriFair 2023 as a part of celebrating the 86th Araw ng Siocon, with the theme “Agrikultura at Palaisdaan Pagyamanin: Bayan ng Siocon lalong Paunlarin.”

This activity is said to give the farmers of each barangay opportunities for them to promote and showcase their products, which can help attract tourists, buyers, and business owners.

Farmers said that although challenges hindered them from a fruitful harvest like the flood, they are thrilled that they were able to arrange a booth presentation for their barangays while displaying all the products from their hard work.