An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities

Re:An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities by keganunderwood on Saturday November 18, 2017 @01:31AM (#15728014)

If one person owns all the land, they (or someone they authorize) can boot anyone unwelcome. This makes life much simpler because you can sidestep a lot of issues and focus on what this really is: a pilot project.

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Re:An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities by dba7dba on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:11AM (#15728216)

Such place exists, and it's called Irvine, California.

Irvine company owns all of the land of city of Irvine. Or something like it.

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Re:An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities by PeachPlum on Saturday November 18, 2017 @02:15AM (#15728117)

The utopian dream of a benevolent dictator

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Re:An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities by elygre on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:54AM (#15728314)

Didn’t Disney build such a city in Florida?

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Re:An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities by Tempest1981 on Saturday November 18, 2017 @04:53AM (#15728426)

The full EPCOT plans are interesting. A circular city layout, with layers. Density in the center. People taking monorails to work, and WEDway people movers locally. Designed for biking and walking. Cars only used on weekends.

Details about 10 min into this video: https://youtu.be/sLCHg9mUBag

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Re:An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities by tonyedgecombe on Saturday November 18, 2017 @04:07AM (#15728341)

Celebration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida

A bit like Seahaven Island from the Truman show.

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Re:An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities by yardie on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:10AM (#15729213)

Which is another planned town in Florida, Seaside: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside,_Florida

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