Ask HN: YC Research Cities Now Listed as a Past Project. Is There a Post-Mortem?

[arikr]

See on https://ycr.org/

Same with HARC - any post mortem?

I'm really glad that YC is ambitious and tried to do these things. Of course, failure is a natural part of ambitious bets. I'd also love to hear what they learned and why they didn't end up being overwhelming successes.

[DoreenMichele]

Their intro [1] sounds like the primary thrust was to create new cities from scratch in the middle of nowhere. This has a long history of failure. See, for example, California City [2] and Fordlandia [3].

My guess: They figured that out and quietly axed it. There's probably not going to be a post mortem. No real point in spending more time, energy or other resources on it.

[1] https://cities.ycr.org/blog/2016/07/27/new-cities

[2] https://www.fastcodesign.com/90133913/this-california-ghost-...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16537630

[petervandijck]

The page states "We’ll publicly share our results, and at the end of the process, we’ll decide if it’s something we should pursue and at what exact locations." Are the results of the research available anywhere?