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Will Silicon Valley's new company towns end up as failed utopias?

  • Written by Grant Bollmer, Assistant Professor of Communication, North Carolina State University
Will Silicon Valley's new company towns end up as failed utopias?A retail street in Facebook's proposed Willow Campus. Facebook

Willow Village is a community planned for a 59-acre site in California’s Silicon Valley, between Menlo Park and East Palo Alto.

It will have housing, offices, a grocery store, a pharmacy, and its developers say, maybe even its own cultural center.

There’s one notable thing...

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