Not new, but this is a great critique of The Line project in Saudi Arabia: https://youtu.be/2b7uMJkvS0o?si=mfMd-U-CtV1RX3Oh
There are ghosts lingering in any human settlement--whether you welcome them into your community's life and honor them determines whether your city* develops a soul or becomes a ghost town itself, haunted by failed ambitions.
*this is true of towns and smaller communities as well as cities--it applies at any scale of settlement TBH, even individual houses