This is nowhere near as interesting as California City, CA, but there's sort of the same thing going on in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
Basically they built all the roads but the population didn't increase as expected.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
California City, CA
I was inspired by this blog about California City.
There's a city in the Mojave Desert called California City, CA, incorporated in 1965. Real estate developer Nat Mendelsohn purchased 320 square kilometers* in 1958, envisioning a city that would one day rival Los Angeles. He was wrong, of course.
*The city now has a total area of 527 square km.
The city is the third largest city in CA by land area, but only has 8,000 people in it. For comparison, Rockville, MD has 60,000 people in it.
The downtown area sits around a central park with an artificial lake and looks relatively normal:
Warning: many embedded Google Maps lie beyond!
There's a city in the Mojave Desert called California City, CA, incorporated in 1965. Real estate developer Nat Mendelsohn purchased 320 square kilometers* in 1958, envisioning a city that would one day rival Los Angeles. He was wrong, of course.
*The city now has a total area of 527 square km.
The city is the third largest city in CA by land area, but only has 8,000 people in it. For comparison, Rockville, MD has 60,000 people in it.
The downtown area sits around a central park with an artificial lake and looks relatively normal:
Warning: many embedded Google Maps lie beyond!
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