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That was indeed an interesting read. To be fair that sounds more anarchist/hippy commune than what the article today was about.
by zip1234 5y ago
That was indeed an interesting read. To be fair that sounds more anarchist/hippy commune than what the article today was about.
- helen___keller 5y ago> To be fair that sounds more anarchist/hippy commune than what the article today was about To be more precise, Grafton was an attempt to "create" a new town governed by the ideas of Libertarianism, while the OP article is describing how to create a new town governed by the ideas of New Urbanism (roughly). The shared problem is that if you're founding a town on the basis of an ideology, you have a town full of ideologues, which isn't a very organic state and hence is prone to many unexpected issues