Gigantic City

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In Atlantic County, two minutes' travel west from Mays Landing brings
you to Gigantic City. Yes, southern New Jersey contains a place
called Gigantic City. Gigantic City appears on the Champion Map,
about a mile west from Mays Landing along Route 40.

The town is stupendous - in conception. Wide streets are named after
great American cities - Los Angeles, Baltimore, San Franciso,
Cincinnati. These transect big-city avenues: Strand, Broadway,
Market, Fulton, Venice.

The briefest visit to Gigantic City will show you the mayhem of
downtown. The noise, the congestion. The souped-up pedestrians and
rocketing taxies.... Actually the only crowd is of mosquitoes, the
only noise from the breeze, the only congestion is clouds. If nothing
else, Gigantic City illustrates how plans may come and go, but names
abide forever. "What happened with Gigantic City," said Doddson, "was
that at one time it existed as a proposed development, but the plans
never panned out. And the place itself was taken over by Mizpah."
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Coordinates:   39°29'51"N   74°50'31"W

Comments

  • Reminds me of Lehigh Acres, a huge master-planned area that was devised 35 years ago, but has only had more than 1000 people living there in the past decade: http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=26.586992&lon=-81.640348&z=14&l=0&m=h&v=2 There's also the "Southern Golden Gate Estates Project": http://www.wikimapia.org/1458036/
  • I've heard of Lehigh Acres. Now, development is picking up & the population is growing (lots of construction going on) but still its way open and sparse. I also heard that the crime is bad and every week there are robberies and shootings and such.
  • Whoever changed the name on this, it REALLY IS named Gigantic City. Click "View" then "Hybrid" and see for yourself!
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