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I first started working on the content of this blog in 2003 and have made several edits since then. The original name New Town Vision was recently changed to "A Village Full of Coops" which is what I really want to co-create with other people. My vision is a very large one which will require many collaborators. Please make a post or contact me if you would like to collaborate on this project or improve this blog in any way.
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- No title
- Executive Summary
- Target Audience
- An American Problem
- What Is Not Working
- Enter Intentional Communities
- Intentional Community Defined
- Brief History of the Community Movement
- Intentional Communities Respond
- An Ideal Solution?
- NewTown - Creating the New American Dream
- The Vision
- NewTown Mall - Retail and Office Spaces
- Open Space and Transportation
- Doing Business In NewTown
- NewTown University
- School of Emotional Intelligence
- School of Healing Arts and Sciences
- Center for Life Strategies
- School of Architecture. Land Use Planning & Design
- School of Cooperative Enterprise and Management
- School of Politics and Spirituality
- NewTown Co-Housing
- Why NewTown?
- Making the NewTownVision a Reality
- Proposed Phases of Construction
- Allopathic Medicine Defined
- Co-Housing Defined
- Community Defined
- Doctor Defined
- Eco-Village Defined
- Intentional Community Defined
- New Urbanism Defined
- Permaculture Defined
- Town Defined
- University Defined
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3 comments:
I found much of the research you did, William, to be useful. I liked the balanced view of intentional communities you present by showing some of the negatives that need to be considered.
However, I thought the NewTown vision was way too specific. Just a small example of what I mean: The specification of medical services that would be available:
"In the area of medicine, NewTown seeks healers who primarily practice allopathic, homeopathic, naturopathic, and/or chiropractic modalities."
Plenty of people are going to have their own ideas about medicine which may be much more conventional than this.
Instead of being specific, I think you need to just leave everything general -- including what NewTown University is going to offer for courses.
It should be something like Unitarianism, where people can sign onto general principles. There then needs to be processes for how people decide on implementations - -but that needs to be left up to the founders along with living processes for modification.
I found much of the research you did, William, to be useful. I liked the balanced view of intentional communities you present by showing some of the negatives that need to be considered.
However, I thought the NewTown vision was way too specific. Just a small example of what I mean: The specification of medical services that would be available:
"In the area of medicine, NewTown seeks healers who primarily practice allopathic, homeopathic, naturopathic, and/or chiropractic modalities."
Plenty of people are going to have their own ideas about medicine which may be much more conventional than this.
Instead of being specific, I think you need to just leave everything general -- including what NewTown University is going to offer for courses.
It should be something like Unitarianism, where people can sign onto general principles. There then needs to be processes for how people decide on implementations - -but that needs to be left up to the founders along with living processes for modification.
My assumption is that readers either *won't* already share your interest in community, or they *will* share overlapping interests and want to be involved in this Newtown.
I would focus on the people who already share overlapping interests and knowledge. And I would assume that they will be interested once you provide even half a page of information...and will very much want to know: *What's the next step, and what can I do to help?*
For this reason, I would move the "development" very near the top. I'll comment in that section below on your blog.
I agree with Anonymous that some of the vision -- especially your focus on healthcare -- seems very specific. At the same time, this specificity focuses the vision to interest certain people who share your interests, and I think it's wonderfully attractive to be so specific.
From your vision, specific people can be asked to participate, and either asked what they'd like to contribute, or asked to contribute specific things -- introductions to other people, services, ideas, etc.
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