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Salt Lake City? Constantinople? Saint Petersburg?

• sonnyblarney 8y ago
  Those are interesting examples. But was Salt Lake City designed as an urban opportunity, or was it really a group of people who simply wanted to make their version of society? With the Mormons it would rather seem they were 'a people' of some sort, and they 'made do' with their environment, as opposed to a specific objective of building society around tech. And are either Constantinople or St. Petersbourg planned? Or rather were there just significant government / centrally-planned bits of civic infrastructure after the fact? I don't think anyone would reject the notion of 'tech' in a city, for example 'a subway' or 'universal wifi' - or maybe specific lanes/tunnels for little robots to deliver all of our stuff (!) ... ... but rather the notion of a city started from scratch with utility, specifically fancy utility in mind. Maybe we could look at places, figure out what they need, and do that well, using technology. In some places it might mean a little bit of upheaval that's fine, if the benefits are at least tangible, unlike the whole Google Toronto thing which seems like civic vaporware to me.