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Solano County Dreamin’: Is there a market urbanist way to build a new city?

August 28, 2023 By Salim Furth

Conor Dougherty and Erin Griffith revealed the identities behind a Silicon Valley investor group, Flannery Associates, that had gradually purchased 55,000 acres of ranchland near Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California. Scale check: that's a lot of land. San Francisco is 30,000 acres; San … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: California, New Cities, tech

Entrepreneurs and the Changing Political Economy of Housing

April 6, 2022 By Jeff Fong

Discussions about land use reform focus on policy – as they should. Overcoming NIMBYism will require deep legal, political, and regulatory reform. That said, entrepreneurs may be helping to short circuit the perverse incentives that give rise to NIMBYism in the first place. New companies may be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: California, entrepreneurship, housing crisis, tech

Y-Combinator, Tech, and “New Cities”

June 30, 2016 By Adam Hengels

Monday, Y-Combinator, an early-stage technology startup incubator, announced it will “study building new, better cities.” Some existing cities will get bigger and there's important work being done by smart people to improve them. We also think it’s possible to do amazing things given a blank slate. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, planning, zoning Tagged With: development, Friedrich Hayek, Hayek, tech, technology

A Smart City in Your Pocket: From top-down command centers to bottom-up app markets

January 10, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Woman sitting on a bench in a park using a smartphone

 Cities, for most of human history, were dumb. At least, that’s what the “smart cities” movement might lead you to believe. Over the past few years, a chorus of acquisitive multinational tech corporations, trend-savvy politicians, and optimistic developers­­—an odd mixture of former SimCity … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, Logistics & Transportation, planning, privatization, Transportation Tagged With: infrastructure, permissionless innovation, sharing economy, smart city, tech

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