- **Centralized Commons**: Community facilities and services are deliberately consolidated rather than distributed or privatized. This concentrates resources to enable exceptional shared amenities while reducing overall maintenance burden. The design resists suburban isolation by creating natural gathering points that normalize daily interaction. Single commercial grade facilities (kitchens, recreation, bathrooms) replace redundant private versions, allowing investment in luxury features through economies of scale. Centralization makes maintenance more efficient, reduces per-person costs, and optimizes skilled labor utilization. The community develops around these shared focal points, naturally building social cohesion through regular use patterns. Rather than trying to provide everything privately, members access better facilities than they could maintain individually while contributing less effort to upkeep. Walking to centralized amenities becomes a natural part of daily life, promoting both physical activity and spontaneous social connection. - **Democratic Resource Planning**: The community democratically determines resource standards, priorities, and allocation. This establishes the core framework for what the community guarantees its members and why. Processes must serve these democratically determined goals. Success metrics and minimum standards are set collectively. - **Expertise-Driven Implementation**: Skill level is determined by `demonstrated capability` through proven community work, completion of standardized knowledge tests, and human/AI interviews. Authority over implementation comes from proven ability rather than position, preventing the emergence of a management class. Anyone can develop expertise in areas that interest them, with the community supporting skill development. Multiple approaches to achieving standards can coexist based on different expert perspectives. - **Task-Based Organization**: Work is organized around discrete tasks rather than fixed roles or hierarchies. This enables flexible matching of abilities to needs while preserving individual autonomy. Members can grow in multiple directions based on interests and aptitudes. Tasks are designed to optimize both individual satisfaction and community benefit, with clear pathways for developing new competencies. - **Minimal Private Space, Maximum Common Access**: Living spaces are designed to be personal but modest, with emphasis on exceptional shared spaces and amenities. Private areas focus on rest, solitude and personal storage while daily activities utilize high-quality communal facilities. This dramatically reduces individual maintenance burden while providing access to better facilities than possible through private ownership. - **Commonwealth Services**: High-quality shared services (meals, cleaning, maintenance, recreation) provided through collective, non-exploitative effort. This enables access to amenities beyond what individuals could maintain privately - professional kitchens, workshops, recreation facilities, etc. The focus is on maximizing quality of life through shared resources rather than individual accumulation. - **Collective Efficiency**: A systematic approach to reducing community effort while maintaining high quality of life. This includes optimizing shared systems, minimizing waste (time, materials, energy), and leveraging economies of scale. Each individual contributes to reducing the overall burden on the community rather than just their personal efficiency. Focus is on "working smarter, not harder" through continuous process improvement. - **Distributed Mastery**: Members develop deep expertise across multiple domains while maintaining broad competency in community systems. This fosters resilience through skill redundancy and drives innovation through focused practice. Active participation and knowledge-sharing are foundational - teaching is as valued as learning, and every member is expected to both develop and share their capabilities. A high-trust environment emerges naturally as members demonstrate competence and consistently support others' growth. The community actively cultivates diverse approaches and perspectives, recognizing that variety in problem-solving methods strengthens overall resilience. - **Ecological Integration**: Community systems `regenerate` rather than deplete `natural resources`. Production follows soil-to-soil lifecycles, enhancing ecosystem health while providing abundance for the community. The community's relationship with nature is direct and tangible. People live where their food grows, understand natural cycles, and develop deep connection to place. Design emphasizes human wellbeing through environmental stewardship. - **External Integration & Autonomy**: The community maintains strategic engagement with external systems while prioritizing internal resilience. Members have full freedom to work, worship, shop, and participate in broader society. Community overproduction in key areas (food, energy, basic goods) enables reduced financial burden on members, making participation accessible without requiring external income. Clear boundaries exist between private property/income and collective stewardship of community resources. The community deliberately plans its import/export balance to ensure long-term sustainability while maintaining independence.