[sneak]

> What would be appealing to Google would be the ability to produce city wide legislature that allowed them to use the entire city of Detroit as real life testing ground for all of their technologies without having to comply to city laws and regulations.

...and turn it into a dictatorship, too, apparently.

Someone's a bit confused.

[xxpor]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Distric...

[tptacek]

Isn't this just unincorporated land? There are big patches of unincorporated land in every state; they aren't lawless wastelands, but are instead managed and services by their parent counties and states.

[xxpor]

No, they used this Improvement District to gain even more power over the land then even an incorporated city would have,

>There are big patches of unincorporated land in every state; they aren't lawless wastelands, but are instead managed and services by their parent counties and states.

Tangentially, this isn't true. NJ has no unincorporated land. Most states in the north eastern quadrant of the country have their unincorporated land organized as townships, which have elected boards of trustees or similar.

[tptacek]

Huh. Neat. Didn't realize that about NJ and the NE. Thanks!

[xxpor]

No problem :)