Economics

Not Your Father's Burbclave

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At the always-interesting Tomorrow Museum site, Joanne McNeil describes some of the world's most curious communities, including a futuristic ghost town in Taiwan, a collection of Virginia cottages rumored to be a secret colony of midgets, a Chinese pastiche of the American suburbs, and an experiment in "divine anarchy" that gets subsidies from the Indian government (and is accused of harboring pedophiles who prey on nearby native children).