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George Pullman made a town outside of Chicago for workers to build his railcars. It didn't end well:

"the town and its design were... a paternalistic system that took away men's rights as citizens, including the right to control their own domestic environment"

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1030.html

Happy that google is making this investment; it's worth a shot even if it is far the ideal way to build housing. Hopefully the NIMBYism that defines this area won't kill it.



It ended perfectly well for the person who built it. The object wasn't to make the workers happy, the object was to make Pullman money.




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