This
column marks a year's worth of ideas presented
in Bacons Rebellion.
To commemorate our first anniversary we
are changing pace.
This is a short introduction to an old
friend.
There
are 20 columns including three Special Reports
plus three "Backgrounders" available
from our Profile
page. Today, we add a fourth Backgrounder
titled Five Critical Realities That Shape the
Future.
This
Backgrounder is new to Bacon's Rebellion, but it
has a history. Five
Critical Realities That Shape the Future is
a revised version of a summary of important
perspective's that were first identified as part
of the citizens' education program that preceded
the 1999 election in Loudoun County.
The presentation of the issues then was
refined in preparation of Blueprint for a
Liveable Region and re-sharpened for the
first edition of the Handbook: Three-Step
Process for Creating Balanced Communities in
Sustainable New Urban Regions.
While
the Nine Fundamental Theses found in Box 1,
Chapter 1 of The Shape of the Future
establish a theoretical framework for
understanding the importance of human settlement
patterns, Five
Critical Realities That Shape the Future
present five simple and fundamentally important
realities. Every
citizen would benefit from understanding these
realities before they make location-based
decision -- where to buy a house, where to look
for a job or start a business, where to acquire
goods and services, where to seek recreation and
amenity.
While
these five realities are documented for the
National Capital Subregion, they are also valid
for every New Urban Region in the United States. Given
the recent report by Southern Environmental Law
Center on the Richmond New Urban Region, they
apply to the third largest New Urban Region in
the Commonwealth.
Read Five Critical
Realities That Shape the Future.
Let
us know your thoughts.
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December 15, 2003