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Mediterranean-style architecture of Irvine has been cloned all across the United States.
America’s most successful new cities in the postwar era are on the edge of bustling places where outward growth was already underway.
The Woodlands was the exception.
Many planning ideas of Irvine are so baked into the suburban landscape that newer generations of developers consider them the standard.
Several dozen attempts to create new town communities since 1960 failed to attract more than a few thousand residents.
Congress passed the Urban Growth and New Community Development Act in 1970 including a program to give loan guarantees to developers who built new towns.
President Trump announced his intent to create “Freedom Cities” during his 2024 campaign
Neom is a $500 billion city that Saudi Arabia hopes will diversify its oil-dependent economy
Urbanists are organizing pop-up villages and designing car-lite and even car-free neighborhoods
Telosa has yet to acquire land so is more utopian dream than real-life destination
Esmeralda borrows heavily from the new urbanist movement and is slated for a site where the city had earlier approved a golf course neighborhood
Starbase encompasses about 1.5 square miles near the Mexican border and is one of several attempts to use Texas’ abundant land and loose development laws to seed start-up communities
Marc Lore announced Telosa which is imagined as a desert city of five million people in 2021
Almost no place in America is more completely a company town
Telosa has a small team of employees and consultants and a website with animations of elevated trams cruising past pedestrian-friendly streets
California Forever has spent about $1 billion acquiring 70000 acres of farmland and put forth a plan to build a walkable community with nearby manufacturing and shipbuilding facilities
A group of Silicon Valley moguls are pursuing a proposal to build a city of 400000 people on top of rolling hills an hour north of San Francisco
Some plans are dead serious others fanciful
Irvine’s model has gained a new appeal as the country grapples with a housing shortage
Orange County California is a mass of indistinguishable neighborhoods designed for efficient placement of tract homes
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