Design
California's Third-Largest City Is a Desert Ghost Town
With 14,000 residents and 203 square miles, California City exemplifies the outsized ambitions of post-war development.
Northeast of Los Angeles, the vast Mojave Desert has always been an alluring canvas for California developers. But the sprawling, ghostly grid of California City is a monument to the way those ambitions often turned to folly, as a new video from YouTube presenter Tom Scott shows.