Replying to Avatar Richard “Dick” Whitman

“Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city”

Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buy 55,000 acres of farmland in Northern California

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/silicon-valley-elites-buy-800m-land-new-city

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₿lack Swan 2y ago

building a modern city is honestly not such a bad idea:

- roads designed for self-driving vehicles would make transportation extremely inexpensive

- modern construction techniques result in much higher energy efficiency

- solar and storage could make energy production practically free

- underground internet / utilities are more reliable

- larger emphasis on green spaces

- permaculture and vertical farming can produce much more food per hectare

- city could be designed to better harvest rainfall and keep it on the land

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Ralphy 2y ago

Not sure a modern city would/should be built with cars in mind as the primary form of transportation. Never seemed to be the most efficient way to get ppl around

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₿lack Swan 2y ago

From an efficiency standpoint you’re definitely correct, but I think most appreciate the flexibility they provide.

Ideally I’d want optimised roads with a broader emphasis on alternative public transportation networks.