Building an entirely new city from scratch in Northern California: an environmentally friendly way of providing more housing, according to some silicon valley types - eviltoast
Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
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Flannery Associates, the California group behind the $800m effort, launched a website showcasing renderings

Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they’ll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What’s the land use code for “feudal stronghold”?

  • GSV_Spinnaker@awful.systemsEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Classic Californian ideology. Get frustrated that an existing system isn’t perfect, and decide that the only solution is to build an entirely new system separated from the old one. Promise lots of nice stuff (walkable cities yay!) but you can be sure it’s only going to be available to the wealthy.

    How are you going to make low-density med-style homes in CALIFORNIA cheap? 0% chance that the people doing this are in favour of rent controls. Once all the houses in the walkable areas get bought by the super rich, who’s going to work in the shops? Workers will get bussed in and you’ll be left with another rich person enclave that happens to have a street mall that you can walk to.

    Also all of their promo-images were AI generated which bodes really well.

    • maol@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Also all of their promo-images were AI generated which bodes really well.

      God, I didn’t even notice that. A pack of millionaires but they’re too cheap to pay a concept artist.