As someone who has lived in cities with bad plumbing, I am very concerned with what planning goes into stuff that is underground. Updates to that stuff requires closing roads, digging stuff up, waking up to jackhammers. I think most of the other sexy stuff like flying taxis can totally just happen in existing cities. Takes way less effort to implement. Isn't really what makes a city genius/unique. If it were the differentiator, then you know that that system costs too much and is just a tourist attraction. Some major cities already do stuff better than the majority of American cities. If Lore had just gone to any major city in Asia, then he'd realize just copying one of them would make his city 30yrs ahead of any American city. I think your bits on moving populations should be the core of anyone's new city initiative. They should figure out what to offer to make someone want to move, and the city planning should be based off interest, and adaptively handle demand. Otherwise these dudes really are just building pyramids. Testaments to the size of their manhood to stand after they die, or something. I would be interested in seeing a compilation of the most efficient cities by size, starting with a town of, say, 50k. Maybe with totals on how much was spent on infrastructure for each. Then you could get a feel for an ideal city plan, through the stages? Really enjoying this series actually. Fostering some genuine interest in other cool places I could live. You really write as someone who has had the perspective of living in some great, overseas cities. The really fun citybits really should be featured on tiktok. Plz educate the children
Thanks for the Article Max! Both arguments are valid imo. Why build a new city where you can build on top and improve a city that is already in existence and already built. I could imagine they would have scouted this out and maybe drew to conclusion that it is easier to create a city from scratch than improve a current city due tom dyanmics, planning etc.
Cities from Scratch - Marc Lore's Telosa Dream
As someone who has lived in cities with bad plumbing, I am very concerned with what planning goes into stuff that is underground. Updates to that stuff requires closing roads, digging stuff up, waking up to jackhammers. I think most of the other sexy stuff like flying taxis can totally just happen in existing cities. Takes way less effort to implement. Isn't really what makes a city genius/unique. If it were the differentiator, then you know that that system costs too much and is just a tourist attraction. Some major cities already do stuff better than the majority of American cities. If Lore had just gone to any major city in Asia, then he'd realize just copying one of them would make his city 30yrs ahead of any American city. I think your bits on moving populations should be the core of anyone's new city initiative. They should figure out what to offer to make someone want to move, and the city planning should be based off interest, and adaptively handle demand. Otherwise these dudes really are just building pyramids. Testaments to the size of their manhood to stand after they die, or something. I would be interested in seeing a compilation of the most efficient cities by size, starting with a town of, say, 50k. Maybe with totals on how much was spent on infrastructure for each. Then you could get a feel for an ideal city plan, through the stages? Really enjoying this series actually. Fostering some genuine interest in other cool places I could live. You really write as someone who has had the perspective of living in some great, overseas cities. The really fun citybits really should be featured on tiktok. Plz educate the children
Thanks for the Article Max! Both arguments are valid imo. Why build a new city where you can build on top and improve a city that is already in existence and already built. I could imagine they would have scouted this out and maybe drew to conclusion that it is easier to create a city from scratch than improve a current city due tom dyanmics, planning etc.