Any time someone claims to want to build a "city of the future" I react with total disregard. I know how it pans out. As you said, central planning never succeeds, it always fails, and it cannot include contingency plans.
Communism is evil, these rich people who think they can force "civilization" upon the desert are fools. Arizona will run out of water entirely in the next 30 years, and then what? The Colorado River is also drying up, once that goes, all that will be left is sparse rainfall, and then no more. The groundwater is so deep down that it would cost millions to drill enough wells to support 50,000 people.
And that part made me laugh. 50,000 people is nothing. You can't build a viable city of the future by limiting its upper bound for growth. Also, what person in their right mind would want to move to the middle of one of the most inhospitable areas in the entire Western Hemisphere? It's doomed to fail
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