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The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me. The most famous example is probably Seaside, FL built buy Duany Plater-Zyberk, it was the set of "The Truman Show". The story is interesting they had to fight all these dumb zoning laws (eg. The Fire Department buys the biggest truck they can find and…
I have often wondered if it's possible to build a successful, large-scale community/commune that is secular and run by sane people who engage in minimal financial thievery of their supporters. Think Wild Wild Country but without insane murderous narcissistic assholes at the helm. From a political perspective what they did was actually pretty amazing. The fact that the feds ultimately just asked them to leave the coun…
[1] - https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/North...
Irvine, California is a subdivision of The Irvine Company, owned by one man, Donald Bren. To ensure alimony couldn't touch his $15 billion wealth, he had a family out of wedlock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Company
Why there are no other such examples? At least, this approach guarantees that there will be no slums: if slums start to form, the guy who owns the town will start losing billions, quickly, so he will do everything to evict those people.
The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me. The most famous example is probably Seaside, FL built buy Duany Plater-Zyberk, it was the set of "The Truman Show". The story is interesting they had to fight all these dumb zoning laws (eg. The Fire Department buys the biggest truck they can find and…
Could you share some of these blogs and podcasts?
Granola Shotgun https://granolashotgun.com/
http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/
I really enjoyed the books 'The Great Good Place' by Oldenberg , 'Streets are for People' by Rudufsky and the Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler
There are lots of articles on DuckDuckGo but here is one: https://outline.com/ZAZvTt (Forbes, yuck!)
Irvine, California is a subdivision of The Irvine Company, owned by one man, Donald Bren. To ensure alimony couldn't touch his $15 billion wealth, he had a family out of wedlock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Company
The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me. The most famous example is probably Seaside, FL built buy Duany Plater-Zyberk, it was the set of "The Truman Show". The story is interesting they had to fight all these dumb zoning laws (eg. The Fire Department buys the biggest truck they can find and…
That's kind of the point of suburbs - to be more child safe/friendly than the city. It's not a bug, it's a feature. (It may not be a feature that you personally want, though...)
This guy bought up lots of land with the purpose of building some kind of city in with his vision. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/23/mormon-mogul-ey...