Failed Utopian Cities

[CountDeMoney]

Columbia, Maryland.

[Tonitrus]

Columbia, Maryland.

Might have done better if it were not between Baltimore and D.C.

[Tonitrus]

Rooftop gardens are certainly something we need more of. Its weird it hasn't caught on and roofs tend to be just wasted space.

Rooftop gardens cost money, and not enough people demanding to hang out on roofs.

Probably better to turn rooftops into solar panel farms.

[Pedrito]

Urban planning

L.

[garbon]

Rooftop gardens are certainly something we need more of. Its weird it hasn't caught on and roofs tend to be just wasted space.

Rooftop gardens cost money, and not enough people demanding to hang out on roofs.

Probably better to turn rooftops into solar panel farms.

Also, they would probably need to start re-designing roofs as currently many buildings try to limit access. Helps with both jumpers and fools just falling off.

[Savonarola]

They were never built, but Fuller's idea for a pre-fab, geodesic dome dwelling called Dymaxion House eventually influenced the pre-fab house movement which is still going strong.

Only one Dymaxion House was ever made (Fuller was a constant tinkerer and wouldn't allow an incomplete design to go into production.)  It's at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI:

http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/dymaxion/index.html

[Savonarola]

The original plan for Detroit was a wild design of hub and spokes (like Washington DC, but taken even further):



A failed utopia if there ever was one.  Only the upper portion of that (the necklace) was built.  The designer, Augustus Woodward, named the most important street after himself.   

[Tonitrus]

And this utopia for Detroit never got off the ground.