I'm surprised at the investment in an area that's likely to undergo major environmental challenges but it will be fascinating to see how this turns out.
Superficially it looks like an American version of Neom.
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#12In practice, utopia usually becomes dystopia.
In practice or in fictional books? If in practice I’m sure you can share a handful of examples.
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#13Going off the renders it looks like they want to build your average smamll Spanish city. Which honestly is pretty understandable.
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#14In practice, utopia usually becomes dystopia.
Agree, but why? It's an interesting theoretical question when you think about it. Is it because people who have the money and means have a skewed concept of the world making them incapable of constructing utopias/well functioning "synthetic societies", or is it more fundamentally impossible? And in the latter case, why then should we even try to improve society?
Because every organically developing system has a great advantage that these projects lack: time. Cities evolve by gradual corrections/adjustments, you cannot anticipate every issue upfront.
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#15Lol, their dream is Europe, basically.
Could be a good tagline: Europe, the utopia of Silicon Valley elites
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#16I'm surprised at the investment in an area that's likely to undergo major environmental challenges but it will be fascinating to see how this turns out. Superficially it looks like an American version of Neom. https://www.neom.com/en-us
Neom is way more futuristic and pie in the sky than this project. If for no other reason the planed 170 kilometres long 200 meter wide linear city in Neom is straight up cyberpunk material while this one is… just a city? A liveable one, which makes it look special.
Superficially it looks like a California version of Lake Nona to me.
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#17Lol, their dream is Europe, basically. Could be a good tagline: Europe, the utopia of Silicon Valley elites
But I thought Europe was only producing “vapidity” ? /s
EDIT: look it up on Twitter
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#19So far, stories about this are getting posted to HN on weekends, like news dumps. This time (for US people) it's posted in the wee hours of the morning at the start of a 3-day weekend.
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#20> The group only recently started interacting with local officials and residents, according to media reports, and had sued landowners who sold their land over what it deemed an “illegal price-fixing conspiracy”.
> “To date, our company has been quiet about our activities. This has, understandably, created interest, concern, and speculation. Now that we’re no longer limited by confidentiality, we are eager to begin a conversation about the future of Solano county,” the group writes.
> The group pledges a decades-long conversation with residents and officials for “a chance for a new community, good paying local jobs, solar farms, and open space”.
> The group has already sent out opinion polls to local residents to gauge their feelings on an initiative that could appear before county voters, according to SF Gate.
> California Forever said in a statement that the group had met with the county’s congressional and state legislative delegation this week and would soon meet with county officials and mayors.
So they secretively bought up a bunch of land and sued some folks, but want to “engage with the local community” (via polling and through the interface of elected officials) and want to start a conversation about how the locals can work for them?
If you want to join a community, you can just, like, go join it. This seems more like an invasion of aliens from Planet Rich. Look out, soon enough they’ll work out how to fully emulate human behavior.
Nice renders though, look almost vaguely solarpunk inspired.