Overview
The NewVistas Community Pattern
If all humans lived in luxurious, dense, communities that offered oppoortunities to live in sustainable comfort and prosperity, what would such communities look like?
NewVistas is striving to create a community pattern that is scalable and sustainable for all humans worldwide. The pattern decisively curbs rural and urban sprawl, thereby leaving far more land for natural ecosystems. This approach will also boost human health, social life and economic prosperity.
Each NewVistas community consumes only the land, energy, building materials, and natural resources that are sustainable for everyone in the world to consume equally. At the same time, the NewVistas pattern provides the highest quality of life possible for all people worldwide.
The pattern accomplishes this by recalibrating all aspects of human living at the most efficient, productive scales and proximities, including a nonhierarchical organizational structure and a fair, inclusive economic system.
As David Hall, the founder of NewVistas, explains in the video below, NewVistas communities are designed to help humans have a much smaller footprint than they do today, through improved methods of food production, resource extraction, and utilization, and embedding technology in every step along the way. Newvistas is a clear roadmap through which humans can achieve healthier, happier, and more prosperous lifestyles.
Physical campus
We call the community pattern NewVistas because beautiful, green views are visible from all apartment windows and public community buildings, as well as from other vantage points throughout each campus. The term also implies a situation in which new things can happen.
A NewVista community includes an inner walkable living center. It is surrounded by an equally sized, mirrored industrial zone. Beyond the mirrored industrial zone, there is more land which the community uses as cropland, pastures, and mines. Further out, there are hinterlands and wilderness, where wildlife roams unhindered and where external resorts are located. The NewVistas pattern envisages a situation in which each person will use approximately 0.1 acres of land for all their nutritional needs. Therefore, around 20 square miles of land will be sufficient cropland, regularly rotated with cropland.
At 1.44 square miles in size, a community’s central living area functions as what we call “the world’s largest mansion.” It provides 100,000 individuals with an optimal, sustainable mix of personal and public amenities.
All buildings are mass-produced and assembled on site. All community buildings – village buildings, district buildings, storehouse facilities, the stadium, and industrial blocks – are designed to adjust to a set of needs, including size and accessibility..
Organizational structure
The NewVistas organizational matrix brings together around 100,000 individuals to promote cooperation, mutual well-being, and other socially positive relationships while also ensuring individual privacy.
Participants – stewards and their dependents live in apartment buildings. They have a lease agreement for their apartment, as well as the equipment and other assets needed to run a business. These assets, including the apartment, are owned by the community.
An apartment building has five floors. The first or podium floor is commercial space, hosting shops, delis, day care, grocery stores, and similar businesses. Salons, barbershops, and other businesses designed to serve the people of one or a few other apartment buildings are situated here. This floor is built and managed by the Commercial Agency (agency 2).
The next four floors are residential, with each having up to 32 apartment modules. Each floor’s residents make a unit, which consists of around 10 stewards and their dependents. Four units that occupy the apartment building form a branch.
10 branches form a village, which has around 400 stewards and their dependents, totalling around 1,000 participants. 4 villages form a district. 24 districts form a NewVistas community.
The NewVistas organizational matrix defines how 5,760 successful participants serve a community in highly specific, part-time, unpaid roles. This large number of public servants, assisted by agencies’ automated systems, ensures unfettered access to community services and assistance.
Economic system
The NewVistas economic system synergizes and supports thousands of individually owned businesses that provide the community with food, education, healthcare, household services, and many other needs and wants. Crucially, these businesses are the community economy’s engine.
The Community’s agencies 7, 8, and 9, Storehouse Bureau receive and thereafter hold title to participants’ contributed assets, for which they give stewards a “deed and covenant that cannot be broken,” a legal document which clearly details the contributed property, and the duties and benefits of both parties to te agreement. .
These assets are used by the community as the “institutional corpus,” helping the community as it secures funds to finance other assets needed by participants to live and work. Agencies and businesses lease these assets, which they use to provide chargeable services to participants. From the revenues the three agencies receive for leasing out the assets, they pay a return to the stewards, based on the value of contributed assets.
Every steward owns a business. Agencies help them to establish and run these businesses. There are no employment relationships in the community, enabling each business to service a portfolio of clients. This in turn boosts their profitability, experience, and operational independence.
Community bylaws and investment objectives discourage businesses from growing too large or creating monopolies that threaten the community’s economic equality.
