Plans for $400 billion city in American desert (Detroit, development, Colorado)

[gingersnap337]

It's like a gigantic cohousing community!

https://www.cohousing.org/what-cohousing/cohousing/

[apple92680]

I saw this yesterday, too.

I don't see the point?

[edglock21]

As the late, great Sam Kinison used to say in his act "we have deserts in America, we just don't live in them..."
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[ciceropolo]

The proposal has all the making of the worst utopian vision failures. Reminds me of Peter Thiel's floating city. BTW, whatever happened to that?
Someone should encourage using the proposed funding to restore infrastructure in under invested areas where people already live rather than destroy an ecosystem no matter how little they 'value' it.


Unless, of course, he's proposing a test of putting societies most maladjusted uncivilized into one place to see if a so-called perfectly designed city will somehow make them responsible accountable citizens of a collective.

[cjseliga]

Originally Posted by engineman

Is there a planned economic base?

Bitcoin day trading!

[BBBentley]

Don't invest!
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[Buckeye77]

Will it have the flying cars that were promised when I was a kid?

[Colorado Rambler]

Have they come up with a way to squeeze water out of rocks or sand? If not, they may as well claim that their town will be paved with streets of gold. We are suffering from a very bad drought pretty much all across the Western U.S. I hope any potential investors will exercise due diligence before losing a huge pile of money. Maybe they could sell lots to the Saudi's?

[Hollytree]

Originally Posted by ciceropolo

The proposal has all the making of the worst utopian vision failures. Reminds me of Peter Thiel's floating city. BTW, whatever happened to that?
Someone should encourage using the proposed funding to restore infrastructure in under invested areas where people already live rather than destroy an ecosystem no matter how little they 'value' it.


Unless, of course, he's proposing a test of putting societies most maladjusted uncivilized into one place to see if a so-called perfectly designed city will somehow make them responsible accountable citizens of a collective.

As cynical as this view is, I'm afraid you're right. Utopian visions have rarely succeeded.

It's not totally comparable in purpose, but reminds me of Brasilia which was uninhabited and deteriorating for many years. https://archive.curbed.com/2019/6/7/...tecture-design

I like your idea of spending the money in places where people already live. But of course, that would never satisfy a rich man's "vision".

[2nd trick op]

The dreamers propose. . . . and the market disposes.