City of the Future

Horizon City? Most people over the last few decades might have rolled their eyes, but Horizon has actually begun to catch up to the initial vision that its creators had for it. Maybe they really were right in that one day Horizon City will have the potential to grow. Unfortunately, the initial venture was not planned out as well as they had billed it.

It was a beautifully designed plan signed off on by Lucio Costa, a Brazilian architect and urban planner, known for his pilot plan of Brasilia among other works. The image seen below was a rendering that appeared in the El Paso Times on February 7, 1952 recounting the story of the City of the Future that never came to fruition.

Unfortunately, the developers were unable to provide adequate resources to fulfill their obligations, and the FTC ordered Horizon Corp to refund almost 50,000 customers in developments in three states, including those of Horizon City, for selling land without resale value. Looking at the booming growth of Horizon today, maybe the developers had just gotten ahead of themselves and time.