permaculture

[Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>]

> Could it be possible to design essentially an agrarian suburb?

It's been done; one example from early 20th century in California, still
exists in the Bay area. I think it's just a neighborhood with big lots now,
but I really don't know. I think it'd be nice to combine agrarian suburbs
with the "mass transit hub" pattern like is being done strictly urban style
around Portland Oregon. If cities were surrounded by swarms of villages
ringed with farms, and all connected by rail...
I have heard stories of farm wives riding the train to market in Portland,
in the 1920s, when there was a central farmer's market in Portland. The
train is finally back, but most of the farms have been "malled".
-Rick