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by treis 2144 days ago
>New, centrally planned cities have only ever been a disaster that quite quickly make apparent the shortcomings of the design professions.

I can think of Washington DC and Salt Lake City that were planned and aren't disasters.

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The planned parts of DC and SLC are the old parts of the city. The rest of those cities were not planned in the same way, and it shows in the haphazard geography and zoning. (For example: why does SLC have 24/7 factories a block from housing?)
Columbia MD is pretty successful