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I want to start a real estate development company to buy distressed land (as opposed to raw wilderness) and develop "living neighborhoods"[1] (like Village Home
by carapace 7y ago
I want to start a real estate development company to buy distressed land (as opposed to raw wilderness) and develop "living neighborhoods"[1] (like Village Homes[2] in Davis, CA) combining Pattern Language and applied ecology (Permaculture et. al.) and sell them. I think demand would be enormous and it would be a net ecological benefit.
Imagine the "City Country Fingers"[3] pattern:
> Keep interlocking fingers of farmland and urban land, even at the center of the metropolis. The urban fingers should never be more than one mile wide, while the farmland fingers should never be less than one mile wide.
Let the farmland be food forest[4] that also grows starch/sugar crops for local alcohol fuel production and bamboo for construction. The buildings can be designed with hyperinsulation and passive solar architecture to have really low energy requirements.
Who's in?
[1] https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm Christopher Alexander's site.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes
[3] http://iwritewordsgood.com/apl/patterns/apl003.htm http://iwritewordsgood.com/apl/patterns/apl003.htm
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening A great example in action: https://www.youtube.com/user/plantabundance https://www.youtube.com/user/plantabundance