MarketTowns<\/p>\n
Reinventing Local<\/h4>\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nTechnology changes how we design our communities. The shift in technology from transport-based design to fibre-based design changes everything. Rather than invent new designs that invariable produce unanticipated negative side effects, the Market Town is a pre-industrial design based on timeless, proven patterns that people love.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe market town is a thousand-year old pattern that worked until the Industrial Revolution needed to house millions of workers in gritty cities as fodder for massive factories. With the invention of cars, we started building transport-based suburbs not because people loved them, but to provide markets for steel, oil and chemicals. Now fibre-optic is replacing transport as the backbone of the economy.<\/p>\n
In looking for a development pattern that fits, it is the fibre-optic based, 21st century MarketTown. It is a local economy designed to enable people to enjoy a good life: the social pursuits of conviviality, citizenship and artistic, intellectual & spiritual growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- 200 hectare, greenfield site beyond suburban-sprawl ring<\/li>\n
- 85 hectare, car-free urban core. Walk, cycle, microcar delivery<\/li>\n
- Zero outbound commuters, all jobs, school, shops and activities in urban core<\/li>\n
- 8,000 cars off the road, replaces 200 courier vans with 3 delivery trucks<\/li>\n
- One cosmopolitan town centre surrounded by 20 side-by-side villages (clusters)<\/li>\n
- 115 ha greenbelt to prevent cross-boundary conflicts surrounds the Urban Core<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
People<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- 10,000 population, about 200 families in each village, each with its own character<\/li>\n
- $2 billion, self-contained, self-managing, self-supporting local economy<\/li>\n
- $500,000 median home price. Lowest-priced flat $200,000, 20% parallel market\n
\n- Does not use developer\/builder model that increases housing costs<\/li>\n
- Uses a UDA-chartered organising company that cuts housing costs<\/li>\n
- Manufactures 4,000 multi-floor homes in an on-site, pop-up factory<\/li>\n
- Parallel market ensures no gentrification, fixed income workers protected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- 3-year timeline start to finish using German technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Zero council funding for access roads, zero council funding for three-waters<\/li>\n
- Zero council funding for parks, libraries, meeting halls, sports, programs, etc<\/li>\n
- Zero Ministry of Education funding to build new school classrooms<\/li>\n
- Zero-waste target, manages its waste by avoidance, repair, repurpose, recycle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
MarketTown By Positive Effects<\/h3>\n
Social<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Complete, not elite community.<\/li>\n
- No struggling class, no spawning of a predator class<\/li>\n
- Socially enriched – designed for all ages, stages and walks of life<\/li>\n
- Culturally diverse – each village has its own theme<\/li>\n
- Artistically enriched – each village has its own artist guild hall<\/li>\n
- Safe outdoors for children, a real childhood, not a coddled one<\/li>\n
- Elders supported to end of life, no need to move to a retirement home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Environmental<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Car free within the urban core means safe, quiet, social streets<\/li>\n
- Real carbon reduction by eliminates the need to drive<\/li>\n
- Real carbon reduction by using Greenbelt solar array to power the town<\/li>\n
- Rainwater harvesting\/storage, grey\/black water reprocessing on site<\/li>\n
- Greenbelt eliminates cross-boundary conflicts – a good neighbour<\/li>\n
- Designed to weather adverse events (climate, pandemic, economic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Economic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Affordable cost of living for all, not just the top half<\/li>\n
- Permanent affordability for fixed-income workers (such as teachers)<\/li>\n
- Tax positive: pays more rates\/taxes than it takes<\/li>\n
- Regional economic engine that revitalise a struggling region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
We all sense…<\/h2>\n
“We all sense that something has gone terribly wrong with our communities. Hamlets and cities, slums and suburbs all lack a sense of cohesion. Not only is there no centre \u2013 there is no there there. Cities, towns, villages and communities designed hundreds of years ago are obviously based upon some basic purpose of living that eludes the designers of our own time.” <\/em>Victor Papanek<\/p>\nLearn More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nTimeless Patterns<\/h2>\n
For thousands of years we designed communities with self-supporting local economies to enable people to enjoy a good life, understood as the social pursuits of conviviality, citizenship and artistic, intellectual & spiritual growth. We stopped that when we started calling ourselves consumers rather than citizens. Now there is a pressing need to change how we live.<\/p>\n
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If you are serious about the future, stop building transport-based developments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nTechnology changes how we design our communities. The shift in technology from transport-based design to fibre-based design changes everything. Rather than invent new designs that invariable produce unanticipated negative side effects, the Market Town is a pre-industrial design based on timeless, proven patterns that people love.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe market town is a thousand-year old pattern that worked until the Industrial Revolution needed to house millions of workers in gritty cities as fodder for massive factories. With the invention of cars, we started building transport-based suburbs not because people loved them, but to provide markets for steel, oil and chemicals. Now fibre-optic is replacing transport as the backbone of the economy.<\/p>\n
In looking for a development pattern that fits, it is the fibre-optic based, 21st century MarketTown. It is a local economy designed to enable people to enjoy a good life: the social pursuits of conviviality, citizenship and artistic, intellectual & spiritual growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- 200 hectare, greenfield site beyond suburban-sprawl ring<\/li>\n
- 85 hectare, car-free urban core. Walk, cycle, microcar delivery<\/li>\n
- Zero outbound commuters, all jobs, school, shops and activities in urban core<\/li>\n
- 8,000 cars off the road, replaces 200 courier vans with 3 delivery trucks<\/li>\n
- One cosmopolitan town centre surrounded by 20 side-by-side villages (clusters)<\/li>\n
- 115 ha greenbelt to prevent cross-boundary conflicts surrounds the Urban Core<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
People<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- 10,000 population, about 200 families in each village, each with its own character<\/li>\n
- $2 billion, self-contained, self-managing, self-supporting local economy<\/li>\n
- $500,000 median home price. Lowest-priced flat $200,000, 20% parallel market\n
\n- Does not use developer\/builder model that increases housing costs<\/li>\n
- Uses a UDA-chartered organising company that cuts housing costs<\/li>\n
- Manufactures 4,000 multi-floor homes in an on-site, pop-up factory<\/li>\n
- Parallel market ensures no gentrification, fixed income workers protected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- 3-year timeline start to finish using German technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Zero council funding for access roads, zero council funding for three-waters<\/li>\n
- Zero council funding for parks, libraries, meeting halls, sports, programs, etc<\/li>\n
- Zero Ministry of Education funding to build new school classrooms<\/li>\n
- Zero-waste target, manages its waste by avoidance, repair, repurpose, recycle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
MarketTown By Positive Effects<\/h3>\n
Social<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Complete, not elite community.<\/li>\n
- No struggling class, no spawning of a predator class<\/li>\n
- Socially enriched – designed for all ages, stages and walks of life<\/li>\n
- Culturally diverse – each village has its own theme<\/li>\n
- Artistically enriched – each village has its own artist guild hall<\/li>\n
- Safe outdoors for children, a real childhood, not a coddled one<\/li>\n
- Elders supported to end of life, no need to move to a retirement home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Environmental<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Car free within the urban core means safe, quiet, social streets<\/li>\n
- Real carbon reduction by eliminates the need to drive<\/li>\n
- Real carbon reduction by using Greenbelt solar array to power the town<\/li>\n
- Rainwater harvesting\/storage, grey\/black water reprocessing on site<\/li>\n
- Greenbelt eliminates cross-boundary conflicts – a good neighbour<\/li>\n
- Designed to weather adverse events (climate, pandemic, economic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Economic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Affordable cost of living for all, not just the top half<\/li>\n
- Permanent affordability for fixed-income workers (such as teachers)<\/li>\n
- Tax positive: pays more rates\/taxes than it takes<\/li>\n
- Regional economic engine that revitalise a struggling region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
We all sense…<\/h2>\n
“We all sense that something has gone terribly wrong with our communities. Hamlets and cities, slums and suburbs all lack a sense of cohesion. Not only is there no centre \u2013 there is no there there. Cities, towns, villages and communities designed hundreds of years ago are obviously based upon some basic purpose of living that eludes the designers of our own time.” <\/em>Victor Papanek<\/p>\nLearn More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nTimeless Patterns<\/h2>\n
For thousands of years we designed communities with self-supporting local economies to enable people to enjoy a good life, understood as the social pursuits of conviviality, citizenship and artistic, intellectual & spiritual growth. We stopped that when we started calling ourselves consumers rather than citizens. Now there is a pressing need to change how we live.<\/p>\n
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The market town is a thousand-year old pattern that worked until the Industrial Revolution needed to house millions of workers in gritty cities as fodder for massive factories. With the invention of cars, we started building transport-based suburbs not because people loved them, but to provide markets for steel, oil and chemicals. Now fibre-optic is replacing transport as the backbone of the economy.<\/p>\n
In looking for a development pattern that fits, it is the fibre-optic based, 21st century MarketTown. It is a local economy designed to enable people to enjoy a good life: the social pursuits of conviviality, citizenship and artistic, intellectual & spiritual growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
MarketTown by Numbers<\/h3>\n
Place<\/strong><\/p>\n People<\/strong><\/p>\n Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n Social<\/strong><\/p>\n Environmental<\/strong><\/p>\n Economic<\/strong><\/p>\n “We all sense that something has gone terribly wrong with our communities. Hamlets and cities, slums and suburbs all lack a sense of cohesion. Not only is there no centre \u2013 there is no there there. Cities, towns, villages and communities designed hundreds of years ago are obviously based upon some basic purpose of living that eludes the designers of our own time.” <\/em>Victor Papanek<\/p>\n Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n For thousands of years we designed communities with self-supporting local economies to enable people to enjoy a good life, understood as the social pursuits of conviviality, citizenship and artistic, intellectual & spiritual growth. We stopped that when we started calling ourselves consumers rather than citizens. Now there is a pressing need to change how we live.<\/p>\n\n
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MarketTown By Positive Effects<\/h3>\n
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We all sense…<\/h2>\n
Timeless Patterns<\/h2>\n