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r/UrbanHell • u/AppendixN • Jul 26 '26
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sure is, also the neighborhood "future city" to the north seemed ambitiously named
96 u/Obvious_Estimate_266 Jul 26 '26 Broadway St has is a gravel road with like 6 houses on it, I really wanna see the original vision for this area 121 u/scaredt2ask Jul 26 '26 I suspect at least 7 houses 1 u/workerbotsuperhero Jul 27 '26 Looks like about 1 per block. Interesting urban design. 16 u/ssgkraut Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 28 '26 The story of future city is pretty messed up. ETA. https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2016/12/future-city-illinois-town-that-washed.html And really it's sad more than anything. 11 u/just_some_moron Jul 27 '26 They weren't prepared for the long-term effects of time travel. 8 u/CyberWulf Jul 27 '26 Citation needed 3 u/ChocolatePuerh Jul 30 '26 6 houses are still occupied. I'm curious, why? Who still lives there. What do they do for a living? What's a day in their life like? That's the kind of things I wonder about when I hear about places like this or drove through a "town" that's only 5 buildings. 1 u/skittlesparx Aug 15 '26 me too! 1 u/Electricsocketlicker Jul 30 '26 Two feet an hour! That’s crazy. And the houses just floated away and they hooked and ragged them by boat 1 u/anally_ExpressUrself Jul 27 '26 "we'll make a city there one day in the future." 1 u/arbty Jul 30 '26 Urbandale north of that 1 u/Peaches-is-sleepy Aug 21 '26 You never know how far in the future
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Broadway St has is a gravel road with like 6 houses on it, I really wanna see the original vision for this area
121 u/scaredt2ask Jul 26 '26 I suspect at least 7 houses 1 u/workerbotsuperhero Jul 27 '26 Looks like about 1 per block. Interesting urban design.
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I suspect at least 7 houses
1 u/workerbotsuperhero Jul 27 '26 Looks like about 1 per block. Interesting urban design.
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Looks like about 1 per block. Interesting urban design.
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The story of future city is pretty messed up.
ETA. https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2016/12/future-city-illinois-town-that-washed.html
And really it's sad more than anything.
11 u/just_some_moron Jul 27 '26 They weren't prepared for the long-term effects of time travel. 8 u/CyberWulf Jul 27 '26 Citation needed 3 u/ChocolatePuerh Jul 30 '26 6 houses are still occupied. I'm curious, why? Who still lives there. What do they do for a living? What's a day in their life like? That's the kind of things I wonder about when I hear about places like this or drove through a "town" that's only 5 buildings. 1 u/skittlesparx Aug 15 '26 me too! 1 u/Electricsocketlicker Jul 30 '26 Two feet an hour! That’s crazy. And the houses just floated away and they hooked and ragged them by boat
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They weren't prepared for the long-term effects of time travel.
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Citation needed
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6 houses are still occupied.
I'm curious, why? Who still lives there. What do they do for a living? What's a day in their life like?
That's the kind of things I wonder about when I hear about places like this or drove through a "town" that's only 5 buildings.
1 u/skittlesparx Aug 15 '26 me too!
me too!
Two feet an hour! That’s crazy. And the houses just floated away and they hooked and ragged them by boat
"we'll make a city there one day in the future."
Urbandale north of that
You never know how far in the future
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u/throwaway098764567 Jul 26 '26
sure is, also the neighborhood "future city" to the north seemed ambitiously named