You look up “boondoggle” in the dictionary and there’s a picture of this development. Are they trying to outdo the Chinese in mega-cities where nobody actually lives?
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Oh, they’ll live there, or else. :^)
This mostly reminds me of Brasilia — the intent there was to get the Brazilians to start to live in the vast undeveloped interior. It grew fairly quickly because of the subsidized apartments, support jobs for the gubmint, and modern amenities. It wasn’t all that far in the interior. If memory serves, elected officials used the provided manors but kept their own homes when they weren’t needed for sessions etc.
But we don’t like to live in an overplanned, canned environment where change is suspended. Usually. Those who like to enforce bylaws like gated communities, that’s about it.