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Tech Bros and their Dream Cities: Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen, and Even Akon Are Envisioning Utopias Without Considering how they’ll be Governed
Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen, and Even Akon Are Envisioning Utopias Without Considering How They’ll Be Governed
From the seaside cliffs of Borneo to the deserts of Saudi Arabia to the swampy delta of Northern California, the rich and famous and powerful are proposing visionary metropolises that advance new aesthetics, pioneer technologies, or surpass previous milestones in sustainability or energy efficiency. An enterprise called California Forever, backed by venture capitalists who pride themselves on world-changing ideas—including LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Emerson Collective’s Laurene Powell Jobs—secretly purchased land in Solano County, on the eastern outskirts of the Bay Area. Mexico City’s award-winning “utopias”—experimental neighborhood developments in the borough of Iztapalapa—are models of shared participatory governance, with authority divided among the mayor’s office, civil society groups, and local residents.
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