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The best way to bend the paradigm is to prove something different can be lucrative in the United States where real estate is ultimately about profit and loss.

A developer first has to shoulder the expense of securing and building a water supply power lines sewer pipes and other infrastructure to make undeveloped land livable.

Many planning ideas of Irvine are so baked into the suburban landscape that newer generations of developers consider them the standard.

Developers can be a conservative bunch because their projects are literally set in stone.

The Woodlands was the exception.

Attracting enough jobs to create an economic base is a more daunting hurdle since people want to live within a reasonable distance of their work.

America’s most successful new cities in the postwar era are on the edge of bustling places where outward growth was already underway.

Mediterranean-style architecture of Irvine has been cloned all across the United States.

The industry looks to replicate a new concept across the country once it is proven.

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.

Because the ranch's 100000 acres had been held by the same family for a century it had the power to decide how it happened

Cookie-cutter subdivisions sprouted to meet the demand but they were so uniform and ugly that planners and developers began seeking alternatives

Several dozen attempts to create new town communities since 1960 failed to attract more than a few thousand residents.

By building homes and apartments near each other from the outset the Irvine Company was able to avoid not-in-my-backyard objections Stockstill said

Demand for housing was exploding as members of the baby boom generation moved into their home-buying years

Builders proceeded to throw up tight rows of one-story homes with minimal landscaping

Irvine would get filled with homes eventually

Despite its planning successes Irvine remains every bit as car-centric as the sprawl its creators wanted to get away from

Several decades later the company's influence over local politics remains vast