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Wow, I find this fascinating, the government effectively used a large-scale project to seed a town/city. There was another HN post a few weeks back that was ask
by Endama 8y ago
Wow, I find this fascinating, the government effectively used a large-scale project to seed a town/city. There was another HN post a few weeks back that was asking about if governments should create more cities. This story provides an interesting case study on the efficacy of the federal government to do so.
- azernik 8y agoThis is (and was) pretty common practice in Israel. There was a lot of trial-and-error involved - lots of the early towns were planned with lots of housing to handle the big waves of Middle Eastern Jewish immigration and no employment opportunities - but they've gotten pretty good at it since then.
- maxerickson 8y agoThere's lots of towns that grew up around military bases. Washington DC is a federally planned city. A less drastic measure than trying to start new cities is to move services to existing cities that have lots of housing (or a clear path to expanding housing).