Hello, and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.
Where your two favorite city dwellers talk about ideas and our everyday life.
I'm Dr.
Ellie Anderson.
And I'm Dr.
David Pena Guzman.
David.
I was hanging out with some friends recently, just chilling, watching some YouTube videos,
and got completely mesmerized by a video showing the plan for a new city called the Line in Saudi Arabia.
Oh, my gosh.
Yes, the Line.
How could we not talk about this at the very beginning?
Yeah.
So the Line is a city currently under construction that is shaped, well, like a line, and it's 110 miles long.
It's anticipated to house 9 million people.
So Saudi Arabia is experiencing this population explosion, and they need a new city in order to accommodate all of,
you know, the people who are moving there.
And what's interesting about it is that it's designed to have no cars or carbon emissions.
It would be run entirely on renewable energy.
And one purpose of building it in a line is that it has less of an impact on the surrounding area.