"California City had its origins in 1958 when real estate developer and sociology professor Nat Mendelsohn purchased 320 km2 of Mojave Desert land with the aim of master-planning California's next great city. He designed his model city, which he hoped would one day rival Los Angeles in size [...]. Growth did not happen anywhere close to what he expected. To this day a vast grid of crumbling paved roads, intended to lay out residential blocks, extends well beyond the developed area of the city."

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