Updated 12 sec ago · auto-refreshing
Trending claims
The fastest-moving factual assertions across the open web, ranked by velocity and weighted by credibility.
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.
The Irvine Company owns so much of the city's apartment stock that tenants have accused it of being a monopoly that keeps prices artificially high
Despite its planning successes Irvine remains every bit as car-centric as the sprawl its creators wanted to get away from
To jump-start its economy Irvine donated 1000 acres for a new University of California campus
Demand for housing was exploding as members of the baby boom generation moved into their home-buying years
Irvine would get filled with homes eventually
Most landowners sold off land piecemeal
Irvine was part of a new town movement of the 1960s and 1970s which included Reston Va and Columbia Md
Builders proceeded to throw up tight rows of one-story homes with minimal landscaping
The program was shut down in 1983 after funding 13 new communities almost all of which were financial failures.
Building more housing on the urban edge is the easiest way to boost those numbers
Paul M Romer and Edward L Glaeser have boosted the new city concept in the United States and abroad
Urbanists are organizing pop-up villages and designing car-lite and even car-free neighborhoods
Neom is a $500 billion city that Saudi Arabia hopes will diversify its oil-dependent economy
Open land represents the future in its purest form
President Trump announced his intent to create “Freedom Cities” during his 2024 campaign
Esmeralda borrows heavily from the new urbanist movement and is slated for a site where the city had earlier approved a golf course neighborhood
Economists estimate the current housing shortage at somewhere between four million and seven million units
Lore’s aim is to upend the economics of land use a foundation would manage development and lease land to residents and businesses
Building new urban areas on vacant land without complexities of existing city is a more efficient way to produce homes and expand businesses