<story><title>A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-10-billion-experimental-city-nearly-got-built-rural-minnesota-180968617/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spankalee</author><text>I would love to see a city like this built today, but with a little less emphasis on experimental and more on starting with the best practices we know today, and designing for a large scale from the outset like China does.
Things like being designed around pervasive rail-based mass transit, and that being cheaper to build when you don&amp;#x27;t have to put it in an existing city. Pedestrian optimized streets with much less parking than today&amp;#x27;s cities. Little-to-no single family zoning, replaced with missing-middle apartment and mixed used neighborhoods. Large parks. Plazas and outdoor dining. Buried utilities. Either rooftop solar, or green roofs everywhere. Modern underground trash collection. Cut-and-cover highway tunnels.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a lot of space in Montana, Wyoming, the Dakaotas, and we&amp;#x27;ll need more space for population there as we have to migrate north.</text></comment>
<story><title>A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-10-billion-experimental-city-nearly-got-built-rural-minnesota-180968617/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>This is remarkably similar to Walt Disney&amp;#x27;s EPCOT plan: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;EPCOT_(concept)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;EPCOT_(concept)&lt;/a&gt; .  I wonder what was in the water in the 60s since the Astrodome actually got built in 1965:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Astrodome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Astrodome&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>