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New Babylon would gestate in Constant’s mind for two decades. In his vision, land would be collectively owned, social systems would be hyper-connected, and automation would create a life of leisure for its citizens.

The Smart City Is a Perpetually Unrealized Utopia

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For the 7 million people of the San Francisco Bay Area, it’s every city and county for themselves. While there is a council of city governments called the Association of Bay Area Governments that was started in 1961, it’s not sufficiently powerful. That means NIMBY-ists in every city try and shove the housing issue onto someone else. That means it’s a race-to-the-bottom on business taxes.

How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch

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Stormwater detention and treatment can be decentralized to community-scaled parks and integrated as landscape features.

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

Peter Calthorpe

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