How Mohammed bin Salman’s dream of a ‘city of the future’ became a $500bn nightmare

How Mohammed bin Salman’s dream of a ‘city of the future’ became a $500bn nightmare

Nearly a decade ago, the Saudi crown prince promised to build a gleaming utopia on the coast of the Red Sea that would redefine how human beings lived and worked. But experts say the scaling back of his project reveals that it was always an impossible dream in the first place, Alex Croft reports