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I can't help but notice there is hardly any planned cities in US or any being built that I am aware of. Most cities are just allowed to grow before they try to create a plan on top of the existing city. Most of these cities turn into randomly placed 'new' industrial, commercial residential districts around city. And often have not planned for roadway, freeway, and definitely not Subway/Elevated Trains or even buses. They starting about it after the street are clogged with traffic.
Honestly, I think with all issue there would planning how to address these future issues BEFORE they appear by creating planned cities.
But I don't see any, there is a list of Wikipedia of 'planned cities in us' but none them seem to actually have plans.
I would think it would even be an option at State level they would start allocating land and start planning for a new city.
Am I missing something here, or is fully planned cities just not beneficial enough to gain interest?
here is one:
Planned for a population of 35,000, the city will showcase a modern business district downtown,
and neat rows of terraced housing in the suburbs. It will be supplied with pristine streets, parks, malls and a church. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/test-city/index.html
There are 2 somewhat famous smaller, planned communities in Florida, Celebration (planned by Disney) and Seaside. Seaside was used as the main filming location for the Jim Carey Movie The Truman Show. Both of these cases where done without government intervention. https://celebration.fl.us/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside,_Florida
What you are missing is that generally, land is privately owned and the local government can only enforce zoning/planning up to its own borders. Governments will take land by eminent domain in order to fulfill public needs. However, a single property holder with a decent lawyer can stop lots of development/plans, even when it might be for the "greater good".
For some reason, these "fully planned cities" tend to be overwhelmingly residential and peppered with restaurants and franchise shopping (granted, sometimes very nice upscale chains) with very few professional jobs. Usually reserved for small, high-value, boutique office suites for the "purple squirrel / unicorn" type candidates who are like 1 of 6 on some team of creative directors or content developers.
The first "fully-planned" city I heard of was Celebration, FL. Anchored by Disney World, it is another example of a tourist (or vacation, or retirement) based community.
I have not seen any good examples of a "working age, still needs to work locally" planned community. Too much holdover and everything still centered around port cities and railroad hubs.
Washington, D.C. would be one very well known example. Columbia, Maryland is also fairly well known, and much more recent. No city plan survives contact with the residents and time, however. The city will sooner rather than later either fail, grow beyond its original plan, or parts will be used differently than planned.
usa is supposed to have freedom so that means towns expand and become cities and everyone yells about how they should have the right
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