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A comment on Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US?.

Re:Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US? by 0x4f3759df on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:25PM (#17351690)
The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me. The most famous example is probably Seaside, FL built buy Duany Plater-Zyberk, it was the set of "The Truman Show". The story is interesting they had to fight all these dumb zoning laws (eg. The Fire Department buys the biggest truck they can find and then think that every road in the state must accommodate it) -- DPZ has other stuff worth checking out: https://www.dpz.com/Projects/All

My favorite is in Jakriborg, Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg

You learn about this sort of stuff if you are plugged into the urbanist blogs / podcast scene

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Re:Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US? by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:57PM (#17357121)
> The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me.

That's kind of the point of suburbs - to be more child safe/friendly than the city. It's not a bug, it's a feature. (It may not be a feature that you personally want, though...)

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Re:Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US? by 0x4f3759df on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @06:09PM (#17360272)
Yes that's a major reason people move to the suburbs (but not actually why they were created in the first place), but on the other hand you can build a safe town where the buildings are close together.
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Re:Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US? by splatzone on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:51PM (#17352447)
Could you share some of these blogs and podcasts?
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Re:Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US? by 0x4f3759df on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:36AM (#17354378)
Jim Kunstler's podcast is good when he doesn't veer off into peak oil civilizational collapse speculation http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/

Granola Shotgun https://granolashotgun.com/

http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/

I really enjoyed the books 'The Great Good Place' by Oldenberg , 'Streets are for People' by Rudufsky and the Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler

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