"Earlier this fall, the Silicon Valley dreamers proposing to build a 400,000-person city and manufacturing hub on rangeland 50 miles northeast of San Francisco released a detailed rendition of their plan, which they call California Forever. It's unlike anything the United States has seen before: exurban in location, intensely urban by design. The new city will be laid out on a compact grid, with interlocking streets, rapid-transit routes and greenways for pedestrians and cyclists. The city's least dense residential neighborhoods"
"Only in radically underhoused California could you even imagine selling Americans apartments that are considerably farther away from existing employment hubs. Yet California Forever represents more than a bet that the Bay Area's extreme housing shortage has created a robust market for super-commuters based in the Central Valley. Rather, it is an audacious effort to operationalize the last 30 years"
A proposed development called California Forever would build a 400,000-person city and manufacturing hub 50 miles northeast of San Francisco on rangeland. The plan envisions a compact-grid, transit-oriented city with interlocking streets, rapid-transit routes, greenways, and residential neighborhoods zoned for 85-foot apartment buildings and row houses. The project contrasts with typical exurban single-family development and relies on California's acute housing shortage to attract super-commuters. The proposal seeks to operationalize urban economics research by concentrating people and businesses to increase productivity, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurial risk-taking in a dense geographic area.
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