.........................This description fits the vision of most intentional communities from theCould it be possible to design essentially an agrarian suburb? The cities
need food (although rooftops can help, they probably need more). Give each
home 1 or 2 acres of land, have some communal waterfront ponds with fish,
let the kids go fishing out their back door, grow fruit trees along the
paths, garden it...and allow folks to make a bit of a living on the food
they harvest/produce.
early 70's and sounds a bit like Crystal Waters and Jarlanbah - it's been
done and around in a rural context for 3 decades and there's many lessons
to be learnt. Note that for most families 1-2 acres is far too much land
to try and manage, on Jarlanbah we reduced this to a half acre (the
minimum allowed for rural residential) and folks share 33 acres of
community land.
The term Agrarian Suburb to me conjours a more urban picture rather than
the rural residential estate described above. Village Homes is a great
example of a truly productive 'agrarian suburb'.
Robyn
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