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There was little local employment for the first 20 years which meant most people commuted to Ft Meade or the Baltimore area.
A lot of people in Columbia still commute to "Ft Meade" (i.e. the NSA). Must really annoy them that there's a major road called "Snowden River Parkway" (no relation though).
Many of the cities in the southern part of Orange County, CA were "master planned communities" that started from almost nothing after 1960. Irvine is the largest, with nearly 300K residents today. It is not just homes, but a very large retail, tech and finance business area and University of California - Irvine. Others include Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Ladera Ranch, Laguna Niguel.
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?
As far as core cities, you are right, even Washington DC is not completely planned (it started off very carefully planned, but the fringes of DC weren't included in the original plan and deviated from it).
But there are suburbs left and right that are truly planned inside and out.
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.
Wrong. There are suburbs, many of them very carefully planned, called "edge cities" that contain loads and loads of high paying jobs. Have you ever heard of Reston, Virginia, Tysons Corner Virginia, or Irvine, California? All are edge cities. Irvine actually has nearly as many jobs as it does residents. And yes, aside from a single street (Old Town Irvine) that has been there since the early 1900s, Irvine was built from the scratch, planned around the University, by the Irvine Company, entirely on land owned by the Irvine Company.
For every 100 residents, Irvine has 94.6 jobs. One third of Fortune 500 companies have a presence in Irvine. Broadcom, Western Digital, Blizzard, Kia North America, and TacoBell are all headquartered in Irvine. Many of these companies are high-tech or pharmaceutical companies. Eastern Irvine (Irvine Spectrum) alone has 38 million square feet of commercial space, and Western Irvine (Irvine Business Complex) is even larger, not to mention office space sprinkled throughout the city.
Wrong. There are suburbs, many of them very carefully planned, called "edge cities" that contain loads and loads of high paying jobs. Have you ever heard of Reston, Virginia, Tysons Corner Virginia, or Irvine, California? All are edge cities. Irvine actually has nearly as many jobs as it does residents. And yes, aside from a single street (Old Town Irvine) that has been there since the early 1900s, Irvine was built from the scratch, planned around the University, by the Irvine Company, entirely on land owned by the Irvine Company.
For every 100 residents, Irvine has 94.6 jobs. One third of Fortune 500 companies have a presence in Irvine. Broadcom, Western Digital, Blizzard, Kia North America, and TacoBell are all headquartered in Irvine. Many of these companies are high-tech or pharmaceutical companies. Eastern Irvine (Irvine Spectrum) alone has 38 million square feet of commercial space, and Western Irvine (Irvine Business Complex) is even larger, not to mention office space sprinkled throughout the city.
Tyson's Corner isn't planned It happened by accident. It isn't even a city (split between two cities Mclean and Vienna depending on which side of Rt 7 you are on.) It is an example of how NOT to build an edge city.
Tyson's Corner isn't planned It happened by accident. It isn't even a city (split between two cities Mclean and Vienna depending on which side of Rt 7 you are on.) It is an example of how NOT to build an edge city.
Fine, but Irvine is a very well planned edge city.
Every retirement community development is a planned city no?
If this includes the 55+ housing development built down the road with 0 amenities, and miles from any property zoned commercial, let alone relevant shopping or dining, then no.
Fine, but Irvine is a very well planned edge city.
And Reston is a moderately successful planned city but the abomination known as 'Tysons Corner' is anything but planned but has been used as a great example of an edge city. So just because it is an edge city does not imply it was planned. In fact most definitions I have heard or seen of an edge city is one that just sprung up as a collection of development parcels usually centered on the intersection of at least two major highways.
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