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I don’t know how often new planned towns spring up in Texas but it’s still common in Australia. See Ellenbrook as an example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El

I don’t know how often new planned towns spring up in Texas but it’s still common in Australia. See Ellenbrook as an example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellenbrook,_Western_Australia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellenbrook,_Western_Australi... https://ellenbrook.com.au/ https://ellenbrook.com.au/

ianbicking 5y ago
I sometimes wonder why there's not more people and growth in Northern Australia. It seems like there's a lot of space and resources up there but not many people...
- erklik 5y ago
  It's hot, arid, and just terrible place to live generally. Except in the Lake Eyre Basin and more eastern areas, generally, the soil is utterly infertile. The land has had no mountain building since the Precambrian, and no Glaciation for similarly long periods. That means that this particular piece of land has been undergoing nearly 250mil years of constant weathering, without any renewal. That does make it fairly unique in the world honestly from a geological point of view, but terrible from ensuring people live there point of view.
burlesona 5y ago
AFAIK The number of new planned towns in the US post 1950 is approximately 0. The closest equivalent is a "Master Planned Community," which is a large-scale suburban development that might include a mix of land uses. Those are relatively common, but they're build as attachments to a larger city, not as new cities.
glangdale 5y ago
Ellenbrook is more of a planned exburb, not a new planned town per se. It's about as far from Perth as Parramatta is from Sydney. Odd that you mention Australia, as I think we're completely lousy at building new cities (leaving towns aside) - the projections of future Australian population would be a lot easier to take if the bulk of people didn't just keep cramming into Sydney and Melbourne.

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I don’t know how often new planned towns spring up in Texas but it’s still common in Australia. See Ellenbrook as an example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El

by twobitshifter 5y ago

ianbicking 5y ago
I sometimes wonder why there's not more people and growth in Northern Australia. It seems like there's a lot of space and resources up there but not many people...
- erklik 5y ago
  It's hot, arid, and just terrible place to live generally. Except in the Lake Eyre Basin and more eastern areas, generally, the soil is utterly infertile. The land has had no mountain building since the Precambrian, and no Glaciation for similarly long periods. That means that this particular piece of land has been undergoing nearly 250mil years of constant weathering, without any renewal. That does make it fairly unique in the world honestly from a geological point of view, but terrible from ensuring people live there point of view.
burlesona 5y ago
AFAIK The number of new planned towns in the US post 1950 is approximately 0. The closest equivalent is a "Master Planned Community," which is a large-scale suburban development that might include a mix of land uses. Those are relatively common, but they're build as attachments to a larger city, not as new cities.
glangdale 5y ago
Ellenbrook is more of a planned exburb, not a new planned town per se. It's about as far from Perth as Parramatta is from Sydney. Odd that you mention Australia, as I think we're completely lousy at building new cities (leaving towns aside) - the projections of future Australian population would be a lot easier to take if the bulk of people didn't just keep cramming into Sydney and Melbourne.