Bill Gates Firm buys AZ land for $80 Mil to create futuristic metropolis

Fox News ^ | November 12, 2017

[Jeff Chandler]

Do any of these planned cities ever work out?

The City of La Mirada, California gained national attention during the boom of the 1950’s, as it was slated to become one of the nation’s first pre-planned cities and was even known as “the Nation’s completely planned city”. The nation’s completely planned city was praised by California’s State Fair organization as being a city that meets the needs of both today and tomorrow. The California State Fair awarded Harold Shaw the first Gold Medal Award to a builder for his achievement in the construction of La Mirada.

Source: Los Angeles Times - October 11, 1953

It's still a nice place to live.

http://www.discoverlamirada.com/history/

[ckilmer]

In the futuristic city they will recycle their water.

It will be pretty much a closed loop.

Likely in this case the water from sewage wll be cleaned to brown water standards and then sent to green houses or vertical growing centers to grow food and then it will be cleaned again for drinking

The technology to do it is already available. Its not widely used because of the ick factor.

[Calvin Cooledge]

The “supersmart” always assume that no one thought of their idea first. They are too arrogant to realize that if there were sufficient resources to support a city near Tonopah, there would already be a city there.

[repentant_pundit]

“smart city”

Lord willing it will be Arizona's first city smart enough to not vote for McCain.

Many of Arizona's desert areas are scenic, due to mountains, but not the Tonopah area. It's flat ugly

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[umgud]

Who designs the local gov’t?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The technology to do it is already available. Its not widely used because of the ick factor.

Yeah, the RATs will be all over it. They're into urine and scatology. They wouldn't even want the purifying technology.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Do not buy version 1.0 of the Microsoft house!

[minnesota_bound]

#7 All women in the new city will look like Weena
I will move there : )

[Lurker]

I thank you for the correction.

And if you give me.....

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Garage door”? What is this “garage” thing of which you speak?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Critics of Brasília's (Brazil's planned capital city, Brasilia) grand scale have characterized it as a modernist platonic fantasy about the future: Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future. This is what you get when perfectly decent, intelligent, and talented men start thinking in terms of space rather than place; and single rather than multiple meanings. It's what you get when you design for political aspirations rather than real human needs. You get miles of jerry-built platonic nowhere infested with Volkswagens. This, one may fervently hope, is the last experiment of its kind. The utopian buck stops here. — Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, Episode 4: "Trouble in Utopia", (1980)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

In the meantime, sane people go on establishing cities and villages on or near rivers, major highways, rail lines, and larger cities.

[Pikachu_Dad]

An entire town with the blue screen of death,.. wow.

[piasa]

That many acres and there isn’t at least 6 endangered species on it?

[piasa]

Wonder if everyone will get a gemstone hand implant that turns red at 24?

[hoagy62]

As I recall, the Gates Foundation funded that technology. I remember seeing a video of Bill Gates himself drinking water that was recycled from sewage. Tons of tests were performed and the water produced by the system was cleaning, bacteria -free, and without adverse smell or taste.

If you don’t think about it, the ick factor goes away.

[Teacher317]

Do any of these planned cities ever work out?
It might work if there were no residential areas allowed, just commercial, retail, and industrial.

That's the problem with cities, the people. If only we could have cities without them.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

the people. If only we could have cities without them.

Well, they could all live somewhere more....civilized, like small towns, or in the sticks, near the big highways.

In fact, most cities now could probably be greatly improved if they zoned out all the residential areas, especially inner city. Besides, they could use the parking space.

[Revolutionary]

Water comes in from the Colorado River. The last I knew, there was actually too much water coming in. The excess was sent into the natural underground reservoir under Phoenix. Probably planning to tap into that water.

“The Central Arizona Project aqueduct system is shown west out of the Phoenix metro area. The aqueduct meanders more than 300 miles to divert Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson.”

“As soon as 2019, the water level in Lake Mead on the Colorado River could drop below an elevation of 1,075 feet. That will trigger mandatory cutbacks in water diversions from the reservoir under an agreement negotiated between the federal government and three lower-basin states that rely on the river: Arizona, California and Nevada.”

[Revolutionary]

Also, if California just put in a few desalination plants, then there would be plenty of fresh water without the Colorado river water and the cycle of water shortages would end.