ELI5. There is a blank patch of land. How would a state or country go about the massive undertaking of turning it into a city? Would it have to take centuries like NYC? Done in stages? (Small town to city?)

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ELI5. There is a blank patch of land. How would a state or country go about the massive undertaking of turning it into a city? Would it have to take centuries like NYC? Done in stages? (Small town to city?)

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You can do it overnight if you want, that’s how Oklahoma City was founded. It went about as well as you could expect, but the book Boomtown by Sam Anderson is phenomenon