Arcosanti is another grand visionary city designed by a single charismatic individual, it’s permanent population hovers between one and two hundred people, I think. Like EPCOT, I think a better description than “city” would be “cult”.
By way of contrast, is Black Rock City even comparable? Huge and successful (on its own terms) it leaves essentially no infrastructure in place for the rest of the year.
I think the essence of any city doesn’t lie in some grand visionary scheme authored by one man, but rather its a software protocol that allows thousands of competing and complementary visions to coexist at once.
