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☆ I moved to an Arizona oasis that banned cars. It's as dreamy as I expected, but it can be a struggle to venture outside it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

John-Robert Rodríguez moved to Culdesac, a car-free community in Arizona, in October 2023. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with John-Robert Rodríguez, 24, a teacher in Tempe, Arizona, who lives in the car-free community Culdesac. Of course, it's different because now I'm car-free, but I imagine growing up in Tempe or in the Phoenix area, having the light rail and having buses is an option for you. I'm going to be completely car-free. AdvertisementEven the phrase "car-free" implies that cars are the default, and it's a dependency that we have.

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☆ The warped financial logic fueling America’s ‘doom loop’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Well, when a landlord doesn't lower the rent to get a new retail tenant, it's because that landlord can't. They're free to renegotiate or refinance the terms of mortgages, given the extraordinary downturn facing retail storefronts. And the future will be full of even higher vacancy rates, higher interest rates, and lower rents. Retail rents have flattened, she says, but the construction of retail space has not. Still, from an urban-planning standpoint, the way we finance retail space makes no sense.

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☆ Our crisis of loneliness, the new bet investors are going after
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Not long after founding the startup, Gaon shared his vision with famed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. It was notable to Gaon at the time that Andreessen — "one of those investors who's known for seeing where the market is going" — appeared to have pinpointed loneliness as its own market. That moved her parents, Cindy and Anne Jordan, who had sold their first healthtech company years before, to found the Arizona company Pyx Health. "The loneliness crisis is bigger, and more urgent, than anything I've worked on before," Nyborg wrote in a blog post. Inspired debuted a thesis in 2020 that identified loneliness as a key focus for the firm to invest in.

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☆ I looked at the plans for the new city proposed by Silicon Valley elites. They're really terrible.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Right now, California Forever is just a website with some ideology and a handful of hopeful sketches with a faintly socialist-utopian flair. AdvertisementAdvertisementCities of the future of the pastThe California Forever art illustrations show at a place that'll look startlingly familiar. Point is, the garden city remains a dream honored more in the breach — in pitches like the one for California Forever. Just about 60 miles southeast of the California Forever site is a residential development called Mountain House. It's what plans like California Forever look like when brick starts getting laid.

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☆ ‘Friends’ and ‘Seinfeld’ knew the cure for loneliness
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Racial and class segregation have also long shaped and limited access to public places. "The fundamental rule of public space is that what attracts people most is other people." So it's counterproductive to stop responsible drinkers from enjoying themselves in parks, at street fairs, and in other public places. There are an average of eight public toilets for every 100,000 people in the US, but access to facilities varies widely. By contrast, countries like the UK and Switzerland have many more public toilets per capita.

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☆ See what it will be like to live in a new car-free planned community in Arizona
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Culdesac is building a car-free neighborhood in Tempe, Arizona. When complete, the over 700-apartment community will have amenities like a grocery store and restaurant. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. Culdesac is in the process of completing what it calls the "first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US." And when complete, the over $200 million project will have over 700 apartments to house public transit and micro-mobility enthusiasts.

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