Why This California City Built 500 Miles of Roads to Nowhere00:11:34

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Somewhere in the Mojave Desert, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, there is a city with hundreds of miles of paved roads, street signs, fire hydrants, and even its own Central Park with an artificial lake. The problem is that it was designed for nearly half a million people and today, fewer than 15,000 actually live there. For every resident who moved in, roughly 27 did not. What you have left is one of the strangest urban experiments in American history: a modern ghost city so enormous it is visible from aircraft flying overhead.
The story begins in postwar America, when a flamboyant sociologist-turned-developer named Nathaniel Mendelsohn assembled 82,000 acres of Mojave Desert larger than the entire city of San Francisco and set out to build the next great American metropolis from scratch. What followed was a saga of outsized ambition, doomed marketing, federal fraud investigations, and a $4 million consumer refund that was, at the time, the largest in FTC history. This is the cautionary tale of California City.
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