There are many. Success among them seems to mean longevity, not scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Intentional_communities https://en.wikipedia.org/w

There are many. Success among them seems to mean longevity, not scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Intentional_communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Intentional_communiti... (on English Wikipedia, the article about Arden is in a sub-sub-category of this one). Reading the Strong Towns site for awhile about the "traditional development pattern" https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/?tag=traditional+development+pattern https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/?tag=traditional+develop... ie cities and towns wordwide pre-car makes me think that whatever idiosyncratic motivations for various intentional communities, in form they're just following the traditional development pattern. There's no need for idiosyncratic experimentation to take and apply everywhere lessons from millennia of human settlements that we've strayed from in the car era. I'm a fan of idiosyncratic experimentation but see zero evidence of potential (because of tiny scale) or need (above) for bubbling up of heuristics from them.