Why Saudi Arabia Is Building a Linear City

Ugly, unwise, if anything, you curve the city with the direction of the atmosperic flow in mind.  Either way, once two of these cities connects, it won't matter what you call it anymore, it will just be a bunch of addresses, nothing special or unique at all.  The good about it is efficiency for transport, data, electric, lots actually that is cool, but at a tremendous sacrifice to the environment.  Deserts are not dead like people think they are, there are whole ecosystems that developed for millions of years there that they're going to destroy.  
This is way way way way worse than building pipelines or highways or anything like that through areas that will cut off migration routes and all sorts of pollination.