We Work with You to Create, Build, and Deliver Communities

Commun1ty.one desires to be creators of communities rather than packagers of commodities. We desire to balance both the short and long term aspects of city and environmental planning. Short term aspects are tied to fiscal responsibility, while long term aspects are focused on creating places for people to grow. Both are important - both are required in order to ensure healthy decision making. Read more about our organizing principles for creating better communities.

““In a neighborhood, people buy community first and the house second.
The more a place resembles an authentic community, the more it is valued,
and one hallmark of a real place is variety.””
— Andres Duany
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Green Triangle
Organizing Principles
Green Triangle
Organizing Principles

In order to affect change in the way the built environment is created, one must first understand the relationships that exist between the governing elements that control how the built environment comes together. In looking at these governing elements it helps to visualize the connections of these elements by placing them at the points of a triangle.  These elements are:

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Transect
Organizing Principles
Transect
Organizing Principles

The Transect of the Human Habitat is divided into six Context Zones. Each zone is defined by very specific rules that set it apart from the others. Transect based designs find a place for just about everything and everyone, letting you be yourself more intensely than unrestrained suburbia ever could. 

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Subsidiarity
Organizing Principles
Subsidiarity
Organizing Principles

Subsidiarity is a principle of both social and political organization which, by definition, means that decisions are best made by the most competent group (closest to the impacts of the decision), at the most local level, and at the latest practical moment possible. In doing this, a system for decision making can ultimately be undertaken which can directly account for both WHO makes particular decisions and WHEN those decisions are made based on their need and timing.

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Plat of Zion
Organizing Principles
Plat of Zion
Organizing Principles

The Plat of the City of Zion, as it was called, had carefully written notes in its margins describing the principles associated with the implementation of the plan. There were instructions about such things as community size (area), population, its layout, type, size of lots and streets, the architecture and materials to be used to construct buildings, and its associative landscaping.

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““When selling community it must be done through emphasizing inclusiveness and neighborhood,
because every new home adds to the amenity when it’s done.
Since conventional suburban development instead emphasizes exclusivity and privacy,
every new home instead is perceived as a threat.””
— Vince Graham