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

• if they are envisioning a lot of cities, they need to carefully think about earth system boundaries for each city, otherwise, they will simply be adding to the problem of cascading tipping points.
• They also have to be designed to be climate resilient as extreme weather will make any human settlement of the future very challenging