{"id":2907,"date":"2021-09-20T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/a-billionaire-wants-to-build-a-utopia-in-the-us-desert-seems-like-this-could-go-wrong-jessa-crispin\/"},"modified":"2021-09-20T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:01:01","slug":"a-billionaire-wants-to-build-a-utopia-in-the-us-desert-seems-like-this-could-go-wrong-jessa-crispin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/a-billionaire-wants-to-build-a-utopia-in-the-us-desert-seems-like-this-could-go-wrong-jessa-crispin\/","title":{"rendered":"A billionaire wants to build a utopia in the US desert. Seems like this could go wrong | Jessa Crispin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The architects of the proposed 150,000-acre project are scouting the American south-west. They\u2019re already predicting the first residents can move in by 2030<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Telosa, a $400bn \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/telosa-marc-lore-blake-ingels-new-city\/index.html\">city of the future<\/a>,\u201d according to its founder, the billionaire Marc Lore. The city doesn\u2019t exist yet, nor is it clear which state will house the experiment, but the architects of the proposed 150,000-acre project are scouting the American south-west. They\u2019re already predicting the first residents can move in by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Telosa will eventually house 5 million people, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/cityoftelosa.com\/\">website<\/a>, and benefit from a halo of utopian promises: avant-garde architecture, drought resistance, minimal environmental impact, communal resources. This hypothetical metropolis promises to take some of the most cutting-edge ideas about sustainability and urban design and make them reality. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/20\/a-billionaire-wants-to-build-a-utopia-in-the-us-desert-seems-like-this-could-go-wrong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d49dbc9c3b9ac43ed10c833097efdbbf13a94ca2\/0_53_5197_3119\/master\/5197.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=766c994d66ef95682615a13e9829e61d\" title=\"A billionaire wants to build a utopia in the US desert. Seems like this could go wrong | Jessa Crispin\" \/>The architects of the proposed 150,000-acre project are scouting the American south-west. They\u2019re already predicting the first residents can move in by 2030<br \/>\nWelcome to Telosa, a $400bn \u201ccity of the future,\u201d according to its founder, the billionaire Marc Lore. The city doesn\u2019t exist yet, nor is it clear which state will house the experiment, but the architects of the proposed 150,000-acre project are scouting the American south-west. They\u2019re already predicting the first residents can move in by 2030.<br \/>\nTelosa will eventually house 5 million people, according to its website, and benefit from a halo of utopian promises: avant-garde architecture, drought resistance, minimal environmental impact, communal resources. This hypothetical metropolis promises to take some of the most cutting-edge ideas about sustainability and urban design and make them reality.  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The architects of the proposed 150,000-acre project are scouting the American south-west. They\u2019re already predicting the first residents can move in by 2030 Welcome to Telosa, a $400bn \u201ccity of the future,\u201d according to its founder, the billionaire Marc Lore. The city doesn\u2019t exist yet, nor is it clear which state will house the experiment, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/a-billionaire-wants-to-build-a-utopia-in-the-us-desert-seems-like-this-could-go-wrong-jessa-crispin\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A billionaire wants to build a utopia in the US desert. Seems like this could go wrong | Jessa Crispin<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2908,"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\/2907"}],"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=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}