I get the appeal of trying out these innovations but the right implementation is to build a version of it and see if people are willing to pay whatever the costs are to live in it. 

Yeah, you got a point, but when the government's the one handling the process, it just turns into a total mess and gets super fake. That's what went down in China, and it's what's happening now in Saudi Arabia.

0xbitcoiner

Ah, but I didn’t say you get what any particular individual wants. 

I smuggled a bunch of stuff into my statement by using the ambiguous phrase “what people want”. 

eh, not quite.  you get what people actually want on the plot of land they own, given what the other people want on the plots of land they own.  You don't truly get any one person's single vision of what the city should look like.


SimpleStacker

econ

Saudi Arabia Didn’t Learn Anything From China’s ‘Ghost Cities’

If they would just relax urban planning regulations, they could see what people actually want their cities to look like. 