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

for: redistrict cities - based on watersheds, watershed - urban permaculture, urban climate action, climate action - urban scale

summary

• old communities were designed around watersheds. New cities are designed around arbitrary grids.
• creating new districts based around their respective watersheds, an idea called watershed democracy makes sense
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKGvj50r_6w
    • then reservoirs can be customized to each respective watershed
      • neighborhoods can be redesigned around each watershed:
        • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R-fAc0wl10&t=5s