HomeTown – Neighborhood Development
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Nature is ecologically sustainable because it is complex, diverse, interdependent, integrated, and decentrailzed. For our human culture to sustain itself, it must be founded on similar principles. Until the last 50 years, neighborhoods and communities had always incorporated these age-old natural values. They have been temporarily and inadvertently abandoned as we have accommodated ourselves to technology and the automobile for the last 50 years.
In HomeTown, the spheres of shared human activity are at once complex, diverse, interdependent, integrated, and decentralized within themselves, and they bear these relationships to each other as each one relates with the other spheres of shared human activity.
Whether we want to or not we are designing and building homes and communities that become subcultures that either sustain themselves spiritually and relationally in health and comfort, or they become places of social dis-ease and sickness. We have the power and wisdom to build safe, healthy communities in which children thrive and learn and grow and develop strong individual personalities within the context of mutual respect for everyone and everything in the community.
And that is exactly what HomeTown is all about.
More by Perry Bigelow
- Why Bigelow?
- The Spirituality of Sustainability
- Building and Development Philosophy: Cultural and Environmental Sustainability
- HomeTown Neighborhood Development
- Bibliography - Neighborhood Planning, Community & Ecology

