Thinking Community / Creating legacy

A community is a comprehensive built environment that addresses all aspects of people and place. The process of creating a community is just as attentive to the impact on the lives of its future residents as it is upon the building and selling of homes and places of work, worship, and recreation.

Presently, the general attitude seems to view our built environment as merely a commodity – a series of individual parts with no relationship to what exists around it.  Going a step further, a commodity-based mindset views every item as something to be identified within a given asset class to simply be packaged and sold. A commodity is intended to merely be viewed as singular and separate in order for it to be sold for its individual parts.

What sort of contribution is being made towards the creation of community if that is the attitude to be taken?  A community yields something far greater, in its whole, than in the sum of its individual parts.    

The habitat we create for ourselves has a lot to say about who we are as a society, not to mention the impact that it has on shaping us as people.  When the output is thought of as community building, both the ground rules and the priorities for what we do and how we do it are realigned and put into a more proper order and perspective.

The desire of Commun1ty.one is to balance the necessary attention between both the short and long term aspects of community building. Short term aspects are tied to economic stewardship and fiscal responsibility, while long term aspects are focused on community building which advocates for creating places for people to grow. Both are important - both are required in order to ensure healthy decision making.