Low cost housing developments - moladiVILLAGE

A Pattern Language

We begin with that part of the language which defines a town or community. These patterns can never be "designed" or "built" in one fell swoop- but patient piecemeal growth, designed in such a way that every individual act is always helping to create or generate these larger global patterns, will, slowly and surely, over the years, make a community that has these global patterns in it.
Do what you can to establish a world government, with a thousand independent regions, instead of countries.
Independent Regions
With each region work toward those regional policies which will protect the land and mark the limits of the cities.
The Distribution of Towns
City Country Fingers
Agricultural Valleys
Lace of Country Streets
Country Towns
The Countryside

Connect communities to one another by encouraging the growth of networks.
Web of Public Transportation
Ring Roads
Network of Learning
Web of Shopping
Mini-Buses

Between the house clusters, around the centers, and especially in the boundaries between neighborhoods, encourage the formation of work communities;
Work Community
Industrial Ribbon
University as a marketplace
Local Town Hall
Necklace of Community Projects
Market of Many Shops
Health Center
Housing Inbetween

Within the framework of the common land, the clusters, and the work communities encourage transformation of the smallest independent social institutions: the families, workgroups, and gathering places. the family, in all its forms.
The Family
House for a Small Family
House for a Couple
House for One Person
Your Own Home

This is how developments must be done!!