Village Urban Renewal Builds
Villages are the highest level of human creation. We take them for granted because of the hardships they remind us of. They came about incrementally over generations and created symphonies of sovereigns influenced by natural pressures.
People living together created a village way of thinking that established written and also very importantly unwritten rules of conduct. When a neighbour ran into difficulties such as the proverbial barn burning down everyone pitched in to help knowing the same would happen for them in a similar circumstance. This was the original community insurance program.
As cities grew and became more impersonal, we gradually lost these norms and expectations replaced by ease and the fast-paced life. We have far fewer opportunities to cultivate important connections to nature and each other.
There are a vast majority of benefits to small town living and modern villages. Combined with traditional hardships and struggles of past times, we have forgotten the great potential of what modern villages and thriving communities where we help our neighbour can offer us today.
The Village Urban Renewal Builds policy intends to establish the overwhelming evidence that multidimensional village building versus building simple two-dimensional subdivisions will bring back the invisible intangibles of complex human interactions and dynamics that lead to thriving families and futures.