WEF: The 5-minute city.

The Line, the name given to this planned city, looks like something out of a video game. It will be squeezed between two 170-kilometre-long mirrors, over 100 miles, and its inhabitants will live in the 200-meter-wide space, the length of two football fields. But hold on, this is only it is the beginning.

Sold to you as the perfect utopia, where all you will ever need is within a 5 minute distance of your pod.

It will have skyscrapers 500 meters high and will be free of roads, cars and emissions. It intends to work with 100% renewable energy and wants to prioritize the well-being of people over transport and infrastructure. It will be able to house 9 million people and its surface area will be 34 square kilometres, more than twice the size of LAX.

The project is committed to ensuring that all residents have all the necessary facilities within just a five-minute walk from their homes. If your friends live on the other side of ‘The Line’ you don’t have to worry: the project ensures that the 170 kilometers that the city measures can be crossed in just 20 minutes, but at the moment it has not been specified how.