This chapter discusses the problems with cities, including post-pandemic doom loops, crime, shrinking populations, fires, weed frauds, parking dilemmas, and traffic failures. It then introduces a plan in California to build a city from scratch and explores why starting over is so tempting.
Silicon Valley billionaires are battling local residents over plans to build a whole new city in California, part of a global trend of wealthy investors dreaming up cities from scratch. The San Francisco Chronicle’s J.K. Dineen and Sarah Moser from McGill’s New Cities Lab explain.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.
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