:Title:    Village - Urban Planning
:Author:   Linda Nowakowski
:Date:     Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:44:08 PDT
:URL:      http://www.ned.com/group/opokfarms/news/4/

The very best communities I have been in have been given some thought before they were built.  We need to think about some of this in order to set up water supply and sanitary systems. 

I would like to use this thread to start to think about the general structure of the village.  What "institutions" do we need? School is obvious.  There is already talk of a park. A market? A communal kitchen?

What kinds of houses do we want to build? What does the weather require? In Thailand, kitchened are outside the house.  How about in Uganda?

Maybe a park with a performance pavilion in the center of the village?

Can we brain storm this for a while?  Being a visual kind of person, at some point I will want to start drawing pictures.... now that is a scary thought!