{"id":13039,"date":"2024-01-22T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/weve-lost-the-art-of-city-building-can-the-planner-behind-a-tech-funded-metropolis-win-over-the-skeptics\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:37:51","slug":"weve-lost-the-art-of-city-building-can-the-planner-behind-a-tech-funded-metropolis-win-over-the-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/weve-lost-the-art-of-city-building-can-the-planner-behind-a-tech-funded-metropolis-win-over-the-skeptics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ve lost the art of city building\u2019: can the planner behind a tech-funded metropolis win over the skeptics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Metcalf was hired to design a new California city backed by Silicon Valley elites. He says bold action is needed to fight the housing crisis<\/p>\n<p>I met Gabriel Metcalf, the urban planner hired to design a new California city backed by tech billionaires, while we were mincing garlic and herbs at Burning Man. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/25\/business\/land-purchases-solano-county.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\">The New York Times<\/a> had just blown open the mystery of who was secretly buying up more than 50,000 acres of farmland in Solano county, about 50 miles north-east of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The buyers turned out to include a who\u2019s who of Silicon Valley investors who had thrown their weight behind an ambitious plan for a new \u201cCalifornia dream\u201d city with walkable neighborhoods, climate-friendly infrastructure, green energy jobs and affordable homes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/22\/california-forever-new-city-urban-planning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a7bb3d7f3b5a18b1a9cb9fdf548452a647ee7ee4\/54_0_1613_968\/master\/1613.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fa44e28d6e01a8011c7172d1358c1c05\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019ve lost the art of city building\u2019: can the planner behind a tech-funded metropolis win over the skeptics?\" \/>Gabriel Metcalf was hired to design a new California city backed by Silicon Valley elites. He says bold action is needed to fight the housing crisis<br \/>\nI met Gabriel Metcalf, the urban planner hired to design a new California city backed by tech billionaires, while we were mincing garlic and herbs at Burning Man. The New York Times had just blown open the mystery of who was secretly buying up more than 50,000 acres of farmland in Solano county, about 50 miles north-east of San Francisco.<br \/>\nThe buyers turned out to include a who\u2019s who of Silicon Valley investors who had thrown their weight behind an ambitious plan for a new \u201cCalifornia dream\u201d city with walkable neighborhoods, climate-friendly infrastructure, green energy jobs and affordable homes. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Metcalf was hired to design a new California city backed by Silicon Valley elites. He says bold action is needed to fight the housing crisis I met Gabriel Metcalf, the urban planner hired to design a new California city backed by tech billionaires, while we were mincing garlic and herbs at Burning Man. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/weve-lost-the-art-of-city-building-can-the-planner-behind-a-tech-funded-metropolis-win-over-the-skeptics\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We\u2019ve lost the art of city building\u2019: can the planner behind a tech-funded metropolis win over the skeptics?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}