Billionaire Marc Lore is fleshing out his plan to build a utopian city called Telosa for 5 million people in the American desert — and he's not the only one with such ambitions.
A rendering of the future city of Telosa, which will be somewhere in the American West. Image courtesy of CityofTelosa.comto build a utopian city called Telosa for 5 million people in the American desert — and he's not the only one with such ambitions.There are about a dozen projects worldwide to create sustainable, hypermodern cities-from-scratch. While they may never come to fruition, the proposals themselves hint at what the city of the future might look like.
Telosa's 36 districts will each be "15-minute cities," where everything a resident needs is a short walk away.The design calls for to be "stored, cleaned and reused on site," creating a "diverse and efficient water system that is resistant to drought."A nonprofit called the Telosa Community Foundation will purchase the land to build the city — "land that is virtually worthless," as Lore put it.
The hope is that development will increase the land's value, and then the foundation eventually would be able to create a market for it — investing the proceeds in an endowment-style vehicle that would fund education, job training, health care, housing and more. This structure "allows us to offer these incredible social services without having to increase taxes. That is the Holy Grail," says Lore.to make Telosa happen: Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a childhood friend of Lore's, and Bjarke Ingels, the prominent Danish architect whose firm is
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