California’s Tech Billionaires Want to Build A New City To Solve Housing Crisis, Will It Work? | Charles Marohn

Urban planner and civil engineer Charles Marohn weighed in recently on proposals to build a new city from scratch in Northern California, called ’California Forever‘. While the vision of a walkable, transit-oriented tech hub draws from successful new urbanist principles, Marohn argues the scale of 400,000 residents risks overwhelming regional infrastructure.