Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buy 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California

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    1 year ago

    My reading of the article doesn’t suggest it’s a city particularly intended for rich people, or that it’s intended to survive the apocalypse - when rich people want to try that, they buy remote islands and build nuclear bunkers. I think what they’re going for sounds more like a modern version of the garden city movement.

    In this case, the ‘utopian’ aspect seems limited to building a city with good public transport (which, outside the US, might not be considered especially utopian!) and clean energy.

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      Garden Cities of Tomorrow by Ebenezer Howard absolutely comes to mind.

      Oddly enough, the Garden City movement was a partial inspiration & justification for American and Canadian suburbs. Poorly executed, of course, and it really is a shame the automotive industry was so effective at lobbying during that same time period becuase they would be so much better executed if they had utilized railroads and streetcars.