Knowledge Economic City | مدينة المعرفة الاقتصادية

This guide to Knowledge Economic City in Medina traces the 2006 promise behind it, King Abdullah's plan for one of six new economic cities meant to wean Saudi Arabia off oil, with a mosque for ten thousand worshippers, housing for a hundred and fifty thousand residents, and a monorail to the Haram. It follows the contractors, Saudi Binladin Group and later Al Dar al Arabia, who broke ground in 2009 and 2011 toward a 2020 deadline. Stand at the perimeter and look for how much of that plan you can still read in the concrete.