2024-11-04T13:34:27-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149976509/architects-if-you-don-t-start-disrupting-urbanism-silicon-valley-will-do-it-for-you Fred Scharmen 2016-11-07T12:33:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/33/33j4kgjdihq29wxq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>When Mountain View start-up incubator <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149954668/what-s-the-newest-project-for-silicon-valley-investors-building-cities" target="_blank">YCombinator&nbsp;announced this June</a>&nbsp;that the company would be creating an initiative around designing new cities, it was easy for architects and urbanists to laugh.</p>