HomeTown – Neighborhood Development

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Wendell Berry, the Kentucky farmer, environmentalist, and author who has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, et.al., taught us three crucial concepts:

1. A community of people is inevitably rooted in a place and in the ecology of a place.
2. In America there is an inseparable dichotomy between public and community, and between public rights and neighborhood autonomy.
3. You cannot have a healthy, sustainable natural ecosystem unless you have healthy sustainable communities; i.e. they are mutually interdependent.

So our foundation is the Bible, Alexander, Bellah, and Berry. The primary super structure consists of archetypal patterns from

• Pattern Language
• CoHousing
• Design for Children
• Traditional Neighborhood Design
• And Traffic Calming.

It is the layering of all these patterns that creates the "dense space".

You can pick up a copy of our design bibliography in the back for specific references.

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