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Some of the philosophical comments have been moved to the Philosophical underpinnings page.
Lorna's statements
http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm
http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/keyfeatures.htm
Christopher Alexander (who wrote A Timeless Way of Building, and A Pattern Language, among other things) now has this website intended to help people who are creating or trying to improve a neighborhood, take things into consideration that will create living spaces where people feel at home.
I think we need to consider carefully the way we design our community, so that it will be a place where people will feel at home and want to live for the rest of their lives. If it doesn't feel good to people, it is not, in the long run, going to be sustainable.
I have only begun to explore the concepts that Christopher Alexander has spent his life bringing to light, but the things he talks about feel like important things for us to think about.
When I've been to places that have had people living there for centuries, I feel a difference between those places and most towns in the US. Reading Christopher Alexander helps me to understand why that is. I want to design a place that feels (and works) like those places that have been lived in for centuries, that have grown out of the place over time, with particular patterns of use.
Perhaps another way of expressing what I'm thinking is that economic and environmental sustainability are important, but they are means to an end, which is the creation of a way of life that has us fully connected with the things, material and spiritual, that really sustain us. And which connects us to who we really are as individuals. A good place allows us to be who we really are.
Permaculture, according to Bill Mollison, is based on science and ethics. The way I see it, science and ethics are both tools that help us to see our way to fully engaging with Creation.
There is a connection between knowing who we really are, (each of us individually having our own true self) and having a way of living that allows us to be that person.
--Lorna 12:29, 22 January 2007 (CST)
Right on!
This is exactly the heart of the whole project. I fully agree with Lorna that all our science and ethics are just tools to achieve the real goals of unfolding as individuals, and as community. --Paulhunt 10:13, 25 January 2007 (CST)
Comments removed...
Reading further down and exploring more of your site, it seems that my earlier remarks have been superfluous. Therefor I decided to remove them. -Alteravista 1/26/2007
Bedroom Windows
So will the bedroom windows face out into the hallway/road? If so, I wouldn't live there. I had my fill of living with my windows immediately on a walking path. It was not a comfortable place to live.
--Prices 07:59, 16 April 2007 (CDT)
I believe it would not meet code if the bedroom didn't have immediate access to the outdoors. The bedroom windows will face outdoors to the north. That area is your private back yard with the tallest trees.
--Paulhunt 08:23, 16 April 2007 (CDT)
I think that the code just specifies that a bedroom have 2 exits. I don't think it actually has to have them to the outdoors. I am not sure of that, though.
--Prices 09:15, 16 April 2007 (CDT)
