I think it's an interesting idea although one likely pretty much doomed to fail in the current highly ambitious form. There certainly seems to be room for innov

I think it's an interesting idea although one likely pretty much doomed to fail in the current highly ambitious form. There certainly seems to be room for innovation in the space with co's like Culdesac developing new niche communities, but building a net new city of this size in the U.S. seems insanely hard to pull off. If you're considering a move somewhere, why would you choose this city over all alternatives? If you're an American, you're blessed with a ton of optionality not just domestically from LA, SF, Miami, Tulsa, and a thousand other cities but also a much easier process to move abroad to many more places. However, I am bullish on new cities like Talent City in Nigeria or Nkwashi in Zambia where both trends on population growth and urbanization are in the right direction for net new development and competition is less difficult (in the U.S. having a city with stable power and clean water is not as much of a value prop as it is in Africa). Also, nitpicky but I'm pretty sure that the governing principle is much more similar to Georgism rather than, "... a mashup of democracy, capitalism and socialism." as the article states.