Power infrastructure, water infrastructure, public services, telecom, road design, etc. are all things that very, very much benefit from central planning. Urban planning is not nearly the same as a centrally planned economy.

Sure, but the part where he said they would have 2 coffee shops — one pretentious and one not — made me puke in my mouth a little bit.

Yes. And also, such cities are so perfectly designed, that they don't even need people living in them.

This post seems to lack self awareness imo.

Are you calling me an LLM?

It's illegal essentially everywhere in the US to organically grow something low-density into a proper city. The only way a new city is getting built at all is to do it that way from the start.

Are you referring to zoning? Because that varies widely in the US and there are many places where zoning wouldn't be a barrier to organically growing a municipality.

Or... the US?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Enfant_Plan