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Jake Berman is a cartographer, writer, artist, and lawyer. His work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vice, Atlas Obscura, and the Guardian. A native of San Francisco, he now lives in New York City.

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Let's talk about tech billionaires' plan to build a new city of 400,000 an hour away from San Francisco.

A group of tech billionaires has quietly bought up 78 square miles of Solano County, California, halfway between San Francisco, where I grew up, and Sacramento, where I used to work. The funders are a who's who of the tech industry, including Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn; Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz; and Laurene Powell Jobs, the Apple found

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The Lost Subways of North America by Jake Berman
"Beautiful transit maps, good overviews of the history and situation of the cities during their time of rapid growth"
The Lost Subways of North America by Jake Berman
" Thanks, Neil, for the good review. The "old posters" in the book aren't actually old.

I did the research of what lines existed at what time, and plott
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