New and Old #240

California's possible new city, poking gentle fun at suburban Halloween, a "pointless deep dive," and a tiny piece of IBM PC history

Yes in Nobody’s Backyard?, Jeremy’s Quarterly, Jeremy Levine, October 30, 2025

I have to confess that the whole discourse in the broad housing world over California Forever and the question of new cities doesn’t quite make sense to me: we build “new cities” all the time in America, except most of them are typical suburban sprawl. New Urbanism has been getting “new ci…