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MarketTowns<\/p>\n

Reinventing Local<\/h4>\n
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If you are serious about the future, stop building transport-based developments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Technology 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
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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

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MarketTown by Numbers<\/h3>\n

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