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This has been tried before. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California
by bagels 10y ago
This has been tried before.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California
- soVeryTired 10y agoAlso here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement
- handelaar 10y ago(Anyone who's seen The World's End with Simon Pegg et al has seen what the UK 'Garden Cities' look like -- the big rectangular drag with all the pubs on it is Welwyn Garden City's town centre)
- loceng 10y agoDifferent times, and maybe that'll be a good place to start - with lots of land available.
- oinksoft 10y agoAlso here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston,_Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston,_Virginia
- VLM 10y agoAlso see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida Or more generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_community#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_community#United_State...
- HillaryBriss 10y agoInteresting. I believe I've seen it off in the distance from Highway 395. Always wondered what it was. Geographically, it's the third largest city in the state. At 200 square miles, it's four times as big as San Francisco. I bet most people in California don't even know it exists. Here's a different attempt at building a community in the California desert, from decades earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_del_Rio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_del_Rio