BEYOND HYPER-LOCAL > Neighbors at The Street Level Right Outside-Your-Door /Block-by-Block: Micro-Grid "One-Minute City"

It all has to start somewhere - right outside your door on the street where you live, 

We frequently use the word "neighbor" to describe people who live next to us in close proximity. 

That's an old word most etymologists and lexicographers agree on taken from its origins; as a name think of the word BOWER "ready-to-grow" + "be active"

(*bheue- )

*bheuə-, also *bheu-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to be, exist, grow."

Nearly every language interprets that root in different ways. Here are some examples: It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit bhavah "becoming," bhavati "becomes, happens," bhumih "earth, world;" Greek phyein "to bring forth, make grow," phytos, phyton "a plant," physis "growth, nature," phylon "tribe, class, race," phyle "tribe, clan;" Old English beon "be, exist, come to be, become, happen;" Old Church Slavonic byti "be," Greek phu- "become," Old Irish bi'u "I am," Lithuanian būti "to be," Russian byt' "to be."

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Here in Mesa, Arizona, city officials have a "Master Plan" - master plans for almost everything!

It's all about that TOP-DOWN THING.

Neighbors live in neighborhoods where some have more character than others. They evolve over time from what may have once been described as thriving to neglected and distressed.

We have officially designated areas for census tracts and zipcodes (all with their own data and data sub-sets), and every 10 years there's a required Census to count the number of every person and every inhabitant in each city.

Now we have something named COMMUNITIES-OF-INTEREST

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The One-Minute City | Dan Hill | TEDxGrosseto

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Make Way for the 'One-Minute City'

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RELATED CONTENT: Dan Hill

Dan Hill

Jan 21·1 min read

A further update on the One-Minute City projects I’m working on here in Sweden. Building on the coverage in Bloomberg CityLab, Fast Company wrote about the project recently:

How to transform your street into a 1-minute city

Last fall, a block in central Stockholm that looked like a typical city street-lined with parking spots, and with the…

www.fastcompany.com

And then a great, thoughtful piece in The Guardian covering the project as it extends to Gothenburg and Helsingborg: