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Will Silicon Valley's new company towns end up as failed utopias?

  • Written by Grant Bollmer, Assistant Professor of Communication, North Carolina State University
A retail street in Facebook's proposed Willow Campus. Facebook

Willow Village is a community planned for a 59-acre site in California’s Silicon Valley, between Menlo Park and East Palo Alto.

It will have housing, offices, a grocery store, a pharmacy, and its developers say, maybe even its own cultural center.

There’s one notable thing...

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