It's been done [1].
[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/california-city-ghost-town-i...
Plans for a new city in the American desert
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#182The cleanliness of Tokyo is 100% because of cultural issues, not because the government did anything special. Durning the major 2011 earthquake everything shutdown and you had to walk home. When you went into the “Konbini” (7/11, FamilyMart, Lawsons) in Tokyo there was always a bottle of water left. Why? Because culturally no Japanese would ever buy the last bottle.
If no one will buy the last bottle, doesn't that effectively mean the next to last bottle is the last bottle?
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also crazy considering - at least when I visited - there were no public trashcans. Maybe that just attracts mess rather encourage cleanliness.
Its not there's no trash, go there at night, especially on the weekends, trash, cig buds, bottles piled on the streets, alleys, etc. It's deep cleaned early in the morning.
Considering its population density, even at its worst Tokyo measures up pretty well.
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#184I wonder where they think they will get a water allocation for five million people in desert areas?
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#185I feel every attempt at community-by-design bears within it the seed of inhumane horror. Forget about the energy equation of building a city in a desert, what's the on-boarding process for prospective inhabitants ? Putting the price of accommodation sky-high to make sure everybody's in the right tax-bracket (or even earns enough to not pay taxes) ? Going through an interview process to only take in people with the "r…
What's more did any of these planned communities ever pan out? There were plenty projects started in the 20th century alone. Guess Walt Disney's Epcot is the most well known failure.
Not a failure, he just died shortly after that investor video.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's mind blowing how much land the US has. I live in India and here finding farmland is not easy to say least, while I see lot of cheap land available in the US all time with much more facilities than a small city in India would have. I've always wondered why America has not built many more cities with all that available land.
There are already lots of cities with declining populations and lots of empty houses. We dont need new cities.
Also lots of old computers that still work!
I'd be interested in moving there, depending. I love the idea.
I moved my company to a new city "GIFT city" in India. It's awesome.
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#187I'm very curious, have there ever been any "cities from the ground up" projects that don't turn out to be total shit that end up just reflecting the urban planning fallacies of the day? (Looking at you, Brasilia) I mean, all of the cities that are most "livable" in my mind are old cities that were designed before the car and thus have enough density and public transportation to make things both close and also the kin…
Poundbury by Prince Charles [1][2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury [2]: https://robskinner.net/2020/09/03/poundbury-prince-charles-m...
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The cleanliness of Tokyo is 100% because of cultural issues, not because the government did anything special Social disapproval over time, including that expressed through government policy, has effect on culture. So, while it may not result particularly from the government doing something immediate to cause the cleanliness, I would be hesitant to assert it is independent of government action merely because it is c…
Government policy reflects the culture. I have spent 30% of the last 20 years of my life in Japan, on and off again. One of the highest compliments paid to me by a group of Japanese friends was, “you must not do X again, you are Japanese and know better now.” I.E. as a foreigner I would get a pass, but my understanding of the culture reached a point where they expected better. I was both very highly embarrassed and a…
Jaywalking as a negative concept was pushed in newspapers by the auto industry and it worked.
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#189Re: Plans for a new city in the American desert
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The cleanliness of Tokyo is 100% because of cultural issues, not because the government did anything special Social disapproval over time, including that expressed through government policy, has effect on culture. So, while it may not result particularly from the government doing something immediate to cause the cleanliness, I would be hesitant to assert it is independent of government action merely because it is c…
Government policy reflects the culture. I have spent 30% of the last 20 years of my life in Japan, on and off again. One of the highest compliments paid to me by a group of Japanese friends was, “you must not do X again, you are Japanese and know better now.” I.E. as a foreigner I would get a pass, but my understanding of the culture reached a point where they expected better. I was both very highly embarrassed and a…
Why is this has anything to do with Equality?