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  • cliff 2:00 pm on December 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , extreme community, practice

    Extreme community is the antithesis of magical thinking. It involves lots of pick and shovel social work. No way around it. It requires skill building.

     
  • Cities: not the basic building block

    cliff 4:37 pm on November 2, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: adaptation, cities, communities, extreme community

    Cities may be the future home of the great majority of humanity, but cities are not communities, and communities are the basic social building blocks of society.

    Cities need extreme communities to emerge from within and beyond their boundaries. To overcome the inertia of massive infrastructure and entrenched politics, cities need localized communities that can handle and lead fast adaptation to fast-changing conditions.

     
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