Neom, Saudi Arabia’s planned city, was an ambitious project intended to showcase the country’s efforts to transition from oil to a digital economy. But Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance. Alison Killing, the FT’s senior reporter for the visual investigations team, examines how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled.
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