• for: regenerative cities, living cities, urban permaculture, Pocket hoods, relocalization, Mark Lakeman, Portland villages, people-oriented city-villages, city-village, pocket neighborhood, communititecture, urban planning, urban planning - city villages

• summary

  • Mark gives a tour of his work at his company, Communittecture in applying permaculture principles to redesign communities in urban environments.
  • The central focus is designing based on commons principles of actually creating lived environments where healthy socialization is a primary design objective.
  • The design involves creating common areas that residents can share, from common food gardens to many mini-parks and recreation areas where families can gather.
  • The modern community has alienated socialization, creating groups of juxtapositioned strangers. There are two different design categories:
    • retrofitting existing neighborhoods
    • designing greenfield new neighborhoods

• reference

  • Communititecture home page
    • https://www.communitecture.net/about.html

Hans Monderman (19 November 1945 – 7 January 2008) was a Dutch road traffic engineer and innovator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Monderman

Suggested by Jerry Michalski: https://app.thebrain.com/brains/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/thoughts/bd9c210a-ac8a-0e34-b309-f62e61e72778/attachments/724c3cbf-7aba-4ac7-5b1a-392125168c09

Have they considered consolidation? Abandon three or four cities to aggregate into one?

When pushing through ideas like the Homestead Act of 1862, one needs to additionally consider the long arc of history and plan for secondary level changes in decades or centuries hence. It may have been an economic boom for 50 years or so (and shouldn't giving away all that land account for something like that?) but what happens when that economic engine dies from lack of planning?

Could the land and space be given back to indigenous peoples again? Could it be given to immigrant populations which might have different economic drivers for their lives and concerns?

Flannery. L., (2020). Professional Planners Anticipate Post-Pandemic Active Commuting. Planetizen. Retrieved from: https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/08/110338-professional-planners-anticipate-post-pandemic-active-commuting?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=dlvr-twitter&utm_campaign=newfeed

What It Will Take to Reopen Cities, with Richard Florida. (2020, May 28). SPUR. https://www.spur.org/events/2020-05-28/what-it-will-take-reopen-cities-richard-florida

June 8, G. M. O. published on P. O., & 2020. (n.d.). Density can work post-COVID-19, with good urban planning. Policy Options. Retrieved June 9, 2020, from https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2020/density-can-work-post-covid-19-with-good-urban-planning/

1. Requiring more affordable housing would make many of these units affordable. Of course.
2. The result would be more density, which is better for small businesses because they get more customers.

Of course, if the developers don't want to build housing at all, or not with those restrictions, then we can return to the other points of this article and play with zoning. Then go back to the steps above.

Probably, we should do all the things. Because whether or not we can "solve" the housing "crisis" without a whole lot more density, I want density anyway. That's why I live in a city and not the suburbs.