A COMPLETE COMMUNITY

A Complete Community

The VillageTown can be expected to be attractive, meaning it will attract people for the qualities it offers. It will be beautiful, vibrant, dynamic, resilient, and at the onset very affordable. This could result in the VillageTown rapidly becoming a bastion of privilege affordable only to the rich and the comfortable class. This is not its intent, and for this reason, it includes designs, contracts and rules that ensure a more complete community:

• By using parallel market real estate it will assure that home pricing operates on multiple markets targeting at a broad range of society.
• By including an industrial park, it provides jobs that do not require university education and adds a blue collar component.
• By attracting the creative class, it provides social and cultural diversity of artists and cultural creatives.
• By hosting a tertiary college, university or research facility, it adds an intellectual component.
• With its no-car rule, it puts those who cannot drive on an equal footing with those who can.
• With its cradle to grave scope of design, it assures the full age range of society remains part of the community. It's safer, easier to get around.
• By having each village set its own theme, it creates both like-mindedness that people enjoy, and diversity by walking to the next village.

A Safe Community

The one area where the VillageTown strives not to be representative of society is in crime and poverty. In crime, it expects that the presence of adults 24/7, the lack of cars that gives criminals mobility and the structure of the villages where people know each other will make it hard for crime to take hold. In terms of poverty, it is entirely possible that at the onset, the VillageTown may take in families who are on state support (welfare, benefit, the dole). However, its intent is to provide the support that permanently restores those families to independence. 

Part of the cross section of society can be expected to include those who are disabled or infirm, including those suffering from both syndromic and non-syndromic disabilities. In this regard, the VillageTown can be expected to be kinder to those needing kindness, and firmer with those who abuse. 

On the upper end of the economic spectrum, a complete community does include the rich as well. In free societies, some people pursue money-making as their purpose in life, and they measure their worth by what they own.

This model of town takes the best of the village and combines it with the economic strength and security of a larger town.  For more information, look at villagetowns.net.  Then let me know if you are interested in developing one in the Midwest.  I’m not looking for investors.  I’m looking for people interested in living in a VillageTown. Write me!