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You have a grandiose idea of what a town is. Fifty plus 15 story buildings in each sector? This looks like one of those 'workers utopia' plans out of mid 1950s Eastern European planning.
The core of my city would be inside of a highway loop.
My city would be 1.5 million inhabitants along the Loop would have subway rail lines
The core would use light rail
2 small state universities
Small Airforce base
2 White Collar fortune 500 HQs
A Skyline similar to Philly
Several Small Manufacturing factories
4 Major Hospitals with trauma and Emergency beds
Urban cores Surrounding the Subway stations
Metro 4 million concentrated within 3 counties
Large Community College
No Statues of pre-civil war icons
Median Household income $80k
The growth of the Los Angeles area, and all of the west coast of North America for that matter, was inevitable after Pearl Harbor and its aftermath. The infrastructure set up in order to win the Pacific War meant massive growth once the war was over.
Had Japan somehow remained peaceful and WW2 somehow remained a European war like WW1, Orange County would indeed still be mostly oranges.
The growth of the West Coast was inevitable regardless of the war. Seattle, SF, and San Diego had strategic ports for military and economic reasons, regardless of their actually being a war. LA was already the fifth largest city and SF was 11th at the start of the war.
The only way Orange County would still be oranges is if the federal/state government didn't subsidize sprawl (oil, homebuilding, highways, etc.) and the local government had strict protections.
You have a grandiose idea of what a town is. Fifty plus 15 story buildings in each sector? This looks like one of those 'workers utopia' plans out of mid 1950s Eastern European planning.
Huge swaths of European cities feature this communities, it's not just former Soviet countries. The U.S. also built this in the postwar housing crunch before moving to the environment-destroying, racial segregation Levitt-style suburbs.
Building housing for the working class is a good thing.
Huge swaths of European cities feature this communities, it's not just former Soviet countries. The U.S. also built this in the postwar housing crunch before moving to the environment-destroying, racial segregation Levitt-style suburbs.
Building housing for the working class is a good thing.
Yeah, those big housing projects worked out SO well. Why, they were practically paradise on earth! No crime, everyone got along, heck, people who could afford a house of their own were clamoring to get in!
Huge swaths of European cities feature this communities, it's not just former Soviet countries. The U.S. also built this in the postwar housing crunch before moving to the environment-destroying, racial segregation Levitt-style suburbs.
Building housing for the working class is a good thing.
And almost every one of the high rise low cost subsidized housing built in American cities is being torn down because they have become cesspools of urban decay. Many people do not want a highrise lifestyle. They like their individual homes even if it is a townhouse or what we used to call 'rowhouse'. They want their individual yard even if it is a postage stamp. That was why the 'levittown' style of development succeeded. It gave people what they wanted at a price they could afford. As time has passed the individual properties have developed their own personalities as owners put additions on, plated trees and shrubs, etc.
Don't blame the racial segregation of the time on the style of housing. It happened in highrise neighborhoods too.
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