Telosa - America's $400 Billion Dystopia
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Published 2023-02-02
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All Comments (21)
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"we will create a 15 minute city that promotes active and sustainable modes of transportation" and of course the first thing they show are cars
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As a Phoenix resident of 14 years, I can confirm that this place is quite literally hell on earth. The entire reason I got into city planning is to be able to whine in a slightly less impotent manner
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"If your 15 minute cities mean, that the barrista has to commute 30 minutes for you walkable coffeshop, you dont live in a city, you live in a themepark" best quote ever
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The root of the problem with these billionaire entrepreneurs is that they feel the need to start a NEW city, colony, or world to live on rather then fix what is already available. It all seems purely ego driven.
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It's amazing how they managed to avoid a tram system and instead went with pods hanging from above
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A city built by a billionaire? Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.
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As an architect who used to live in the Middle East and worked in one of the large real estate development companies in one of the Gulf states let me tell you what you have been told about how multi-billion dollar projects get presented to heads of states is spot on. I witnessed with my own eyes such presentations for projects with budgets in the billions approved without a single page of a feasibility study.
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As a Phoenix resident, I never thought this place could get any more dystopian, but here we are
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I really don’t get how “the city that actively listens to you” doesn’t sound like a dystopian hellscape to some people
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I adore how they talk about "mixed used development", "5 minuta walks" and "15 minute city", like some futuristic, revolutionary idea that was never thought of before.
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I'm Danish, went to vacation on the USA westcoast on a roadtrip. Landed in Phoenix and it was the first time i've driven on a highway more than 3 lanes. There was like 9 lanes or something with exists on both the left and right and nobody kept to the right. It was utter chaos.
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Lol my brother is an architect & he was confronted in a meeting about an idea just like this, he walked out😂 I love how direct and straight forward with people he is. Some call him an ass hole but I call him An honest man.
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Having Commercial Flying cars is like allowing people to buy cruise missiles.
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I noticed all the houses had glass roofs. Making them greenhouses. In a desert. "Why do I have to run the AC all the time?"
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It's gonna be so cool to visit the Telosa ruins in 2030!
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I can just imagine the promo video playing on a loop on a kiosk at the edge of a deserted ruin half submerged in sand
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Not to mention, there are plenty of examples of more sustainable living with lower personal carbon footprints— like Tokyo. If an American Billionaire truly wanted to build that, it has been built elsewhere.
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The fact that we're at a point where people are trying to build a city in the middle of the desert and someone has to step in to explain that it doesn't rain very often over there is equal parts hilarious and depressing.
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"Smoothbrain dictator plus construction project equals dumb shit" really is the chef's kiss of a tagline that Adam's channel blew up with. It should be on all the famous quote attributions sites sooner rather than later.
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I love how you explain why all of these ideas are not viable in the real world and you discuss the impacts like leaching doctors and teachers from the public system.
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