Portland, Oregon is not on the list.

Walker: Oh, it's this list again. You know how many times I've seen pictures of that walled in city and trash city on Fark? Too many.

How about some new cities? What about that city in Florida that Disney built and you must be like Stepford people or they'll kill you? Oh yeah, Celebration, Florida

"The picture-perfect town has a little train that ferries children and adults around and has piped in music throughout its downtown"

Creepy.

And don't piss off Mickey Mouse or he'll cut off your power:

Two utility companies, Smart City Telecom and Reedy Creek Energy Services, both operated from Walt Disney World, provide services to the town.

Ahh, I'm very acquainted with that town. My brother and his family lives there (he's a Disney exec). My parents sold their condo in Celebration just last week. It is indeed the real wold Pleasantville.

Weaver95: Arcosanti looks like a neat idea. scale that sucker up a bit and we're good to go.

Arcology, you say? Oblig:

Shibam, Yemen. I think it looks like a city in Civ 3

Someone should wall off Detroit and let it become (more) feral.

Darth_Lukecash: Detroit isn't a city, it's a symbol of American Corporate greed.

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Weaver95: Arcosanti looks like a neat idea. scale that sucker up a bit and we're good to go.

Building an "arcology" in the desert is just cheating! Neft Dashlari would pass for one under that lazy definition.

#5 was on Trashoplis on the Smithsonian channel

I've been in Kowloon. It's like the Weasley's Burrow became a cross between a brothel and a stray cat sanctuary. Anyone crossing the Lung Sun bridge is greeted by children with salesmen abilities that would put a Term-life insurance exec to shame. Personally, I loved it there. They even have a Starbucks*

*Almost but not entirely quite entirely unlike an actual Starbucks.

Darth_Lukecash: Detroit isn't a city, it's a symbol of American Corporate greed.

You left out the political corruption.

Darth_Lukecash: Detroit isn't a city, it's a symbol of American Corporate greed.

Yeah I'm sure their city council (new window) consisting entirely of far left rocket surgeons with their endless entitlements and no taxpayer base has nothing to do with it. With leadership like that (new window) I can't imagine how the city could be so shiatty. Yep the problem (new window) with Detroit is corporate greed.

ftfa

Roughly 120 little people live in the city sized park in the mountains of Kunming, China. The one requirement for citizenship: You can't be taller than 4'3".



Isn't that most Asians? Doesn't sound very exclusive to me.

MoeSzyslak: Darth_Lukecash: Detroit isn't a city, it's a symbol of American Corporate greed.

Yeah I'm sure their city council (new window) consisting entirely of far left rocket surgeons with their endless entitlements and no taxpayer base has nothing to do with it. With leadership like that (new window) I can't imagine how the city could be so shiatty. Yep the problem (new window) with Detroit is corporate greed.

The first video was my favorite. I jotted down some quotes that made me laugh.

"You're not my daddy."

"Grow up. Control your house and you'll know how to treat other women better."

"Shrek." (She called the council president "Shrek." He was bald.)

"Do it, baby"

"Ooh, lord"

sigdiamond2000: Jesus. Kowloon City looks and sounds like something out of a JG Ballard story.

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William Gibson used the Walled City rather extensively in his Bridge Trilogy. (new window)

Walker: Oh, it's this list again. You know how many times I've seen pictures of that walled in city and trash city on Fark? Too many.

How about some new cities? What about that city in Florida that Disney built and you must be like Stepford people or they'll kill you? Oh yeah, Celebration, Florida

"The picture-perfect town has a little train that ferries children and adults around and has piped in music throughout its downtown"

Creepy.

And don't piss off Mickey Mouse or he'll cut off your power:

Two utility companies, Smart City Telecom and Reedy Creek Energy Services, both


My brother's gf lives in Celebration (thanks to her rich parents) while she works for minimum wage at Disney working a register. She's 26. Creepy? Hell yeah.

thenateman: MoeSzyslak: Darth_Lukecash: Detroit isn't a city, it's a symbol of American Corporate greed.

Yeah I'm sure their city council (new window) consisting entirely of far left rocket surgeons with their endless entitlements and no taxpayer base has nothing to do with it. With leadership like that (new window) I can't imagine how the city could be so shiatty. Yep the problem (new window) with Detroit is corporate greed.

The first video was my favorite. I jotted down some quotes that made me laugh.

"You're not my daddy."

"Grow up. Control your house and you'll know how to treat other women better."

"Shrek." (She called the council president "Shrek." He was bald.)

"Do it, baby"

"Ooh, lord"

went and watched it after seeing your comments. woo, that was sad and funny. couldn't believe she kept saying she didn't interrupt him. ooh lord indeed.

R.P.M.: thenateman: MoeSzyslak: Darth_Lukecash: Detroit isn't a city, it's a symbol of American Corporate greed.

Yeah I'm sure their city council (new window) consisting entirely of far left rocket surgeons with their endless entitlements and no taxpayer base has nothing to do with it. With leadership like that (new window) I can't imagine how the city could be so shiatty. Yep the problem (new window) with Detroit is corporate greed.

The first video was my favorite. I jotted down some quotes that made me laugh.

"You're not my daddy."

"Grow up. Control your house and you'll know how to treat other women better."

"Shrek." (She called the council president "Shrek." He was bald.)

"Do it, baby"

"Ooh, lord"

went and watched it after seeing your comments. woo, that was sad and funny. couldn't believe she kept saying she didn't interrupt him. ooh lord indeed.

She's in federal prison at the moment.

JohnAnnArbor: She's in federal prison at the moment.

Linky?

thenateman: JohnAnnArbor: She's in federal prison at the moment.

Linky?

Put "Monica Conyers" in this link (new window).

Reasonably recent article. (new window)

Walker: Oh, it's this list again. You know how many times I've seen pictures of that walled in city and trash city on Fark? Too many.

How about some new cities? What about that city in Florida that Disney built and you must be like Stepford people or they'll kill you? Oh yeah, Celebration, Florida

"The picture-perfect town has a little train that ferries children and adults around and has piped in music throughout its downtown"

Creepy.

And don't piss off Mickey Mouse or he'll cut off your power:

Two utility companies, Smart City Telecom and Reedy Creek Energy Services, both operated from Walt Disney World, provide services to the town.

Good ol' Celebration, Florida.

Happy Hours: Shirley Ujest: Someone should wall off Detroit and let it become (more) feral.

I'm waiting for the 2nd sequel to Escape From New York to be set in Detroit.

People are getting pretty despondent about the economy and their future prospects. It may be time for another round of dystopian future-based films that were so popular in the 80s.

And Detroit is in an amazing position to capitalize on that. They could rent out whole neighborhoods as pre-built post apocalyptic sets depicting a once great society that has totally collapsed in to anarchy. The natives can provide extras and plenty of realistic gun fire.

JohnAnnArbor: thenateman: JohnAnnArbor: She's in federal prison at the moment.

Linky?

Put "Monica Conyers" in this link (new window).

Reasonably recent article. (new window)

JohnAnnArbor: thenateman: JohnAnnArbor: She's in federal prison at the moment.

Linky?

Put "Monica Conyers" in this link (new window).

Reasonably recent article. (new window)

Thanks for giving her name. Here's the skinny:

Two key figures in a sludge-disposal deal admitted paying Conyers thousands of dollars in bribes to secure her support for a $1.2-billion city contract with Synagro Technologies. Conyers, who initially opposed the 2007 deal, switched her position as the council voted 5-4 to let Synagro dispose of wastewater sludge.

/Sludge

Don't you hate when you quote someone twice?

thenateman: Don't you hate when you quote someone twice?

thenateman: Don't you hate when you quote someone twice?

Sure, but it's easy to avoid.

JohnAnnArbor: thenateman: Don't you hate when you quote someone twice?

thenateman: Don't you hate when you quote someone twice?

Sure, but it's easy to avoid.


GIS for "unavoidable"

Edinburgh.

I've spent a lot of time looking over the city centre, the difference in height between the Old Town and the New Town, the levels and angles of the bridges over Waverley Station, and am now convinced that it can only work with non-Euclidean geometry. I'm fairly certain that dead Cthulhu lies sleeping under there somewhere. Probably in one of the twisty little passages leading off the Royal Mile. Or in the top floor of the Museum of Childhood along with the creepy lifesized porcelain dolls in the dimly lit room with the sound of sinister laughter piped in over the tannoy.

MoeSzyslak: Yeah I'm sure their city council (new window) consisting entirely of far left rocket surgeons with their endless entitlements and no taxpayer base has nothing to do with it. With leadership like that (new window) I can't imagine how the city could be so shiatty. Yep the problem (new window) with Detroit is corporate greed.

That's some serious weapons grade crazy there. And that last one was all over the map: Indian reservations, Gandhi, Great Britain, Asians... I have no idea what her point was but she was sure intent on making it.

Back on topic.... TFA needs more Battleship Island

JohnAnnArbor: She's in federal prison at the moment.

read the links you gave after that. jeez! i still sand by my (her?...yours?) "oh lord" =)

that's just a great example of funny/sad. why isn't there outrage on this stuff?

From Monica Conyers' wiki:

In March 2009, Conyers led a group of five Detroit City Council members that blocked the transfer of ownership of Detroit Cobo Hall (the home of the North American International Auto Show) to a regional authority consisting of representatives from Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. During a heated council meeting discussing the deal, she told Isaac Robinson, a white official of the Teamsters union, that most of the people that work at the show "don't look like me. They look like you." She was quick to deny any implications of racism to the media when questioned about the comments. Conyers went on to claim Black people "cannot be racist".

Again I don't think corporate greed is Detroit's problem some much as leadership is. This is what happens after decades of voting in hardly educated ignorant entitlement babies. People who think taxing the ever living shiat out of the thirty seven remaining employed people in Detroit in order to support ridiculous entitlement programs and hand outs makes fiscal sense. When going on the dole is a better business decision than actually going out and working for a living what you are left with is Detroit. But by all means keep voting for these retards and continue getting exactly what you deserve. Oh shiat I almost forgot, when your elected officials continue to bury your city deeper and deeper in shiat don't forget to scream CORPORATE GREED RUINED OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY MAAAN!

watson.t.hamster: And Detroit is in an amazing position to capitalize on that. They could rent out whole neighborhoods as pre-built post apocalyptic sets depicting a once great society that has totally collapsed in to anarchy. The natives can provide extras and plenty of realistic gun fire.

Are you deliberately trying to destroy what little remains of the Scottish film industry?

There are at least 2 more towns/subdivisions in FL that I know that are designed in a similar fashion to Celebration (Cooper, Robertson & Partners).

Baldwin Park (new window)-a former Navy base in Orlando, I shop at the Publix there (we call it the Stepford Publix).

Seaside, FL (new window)-Better known as the place where the exterior shots for the movie "The Truman Show" (new window) were filmed.

Celebration (new window) is no longer really controlled by Disney, but a lot of people who live there work for Disney due to it's proximity to the park and the corporate offices. Not to mention that WDW still has some corporate facilities within the town. I have a friend who lives there, and I will say right now it is really, really nice. HOWEVER- for anyone who makes less than a six figure salary, an average house there will cost you plenty, not to mention your right kidney and your first-born child. Don't get me started on their HOA.

Apropo: A city used as a dumping ground for Cairo called "Manshiyat"

watson.t.hamster: Happy Hours: Shirley Ujest: Someone should wall off Detroit and let it become (more) feral.

I'm waiting for the 2nd sequel to Escape From New York to be set in Detroit.

People are getting pretty despondent about the economy and their future prospects. It may be time for another round of dystopian future-based films that were so popular in the 80s.

And Detroit is in an amazing position to capitalize on that. They could rent out whole neighborhoods as pre-built post apocalyptic sets depicting a once great society that has totally collapsed in to anarchy. The natives can provide extras and plenty of realistic gun fire.

Gary, Indiana already beat them to it. (new window)

MoeSzyslak: Darth_Lukecash: Detroit isn't a city, it's a symbol of American Corporate greed.

Yeah I'm sure their city council (new window) consisting entirely of far left rocket surgeons with their endless entitlements and no taxpayer base has nothing to do with it. With leadership like that (new window) I can't imagine how the city could be so shiatty. Yep the problem (new window) with Detroit is corporate greed.

Detroit is what happens when you let liberals and unions have all the power instead of simply too much, like in other crime-ridden cities with failing education systems.