The Holigent Village
A holigent village is a mixed-use, human-scale, high-rise pedestrian community with minimal or no mechanical means of transportation other than electric rail mass transport. The human-scale hub-and-spokes arrangement places all the residents within reasonable walking distance from the transit hub. A park with recreational facilities surrounds the village to add quality to the high-rise living.
A Holigent Village will not sprawl but any number of new villages can be built and clustered in a cellular arrangement to accommodate growing demand. Thus the density, the walkable human scale and the open-space-per-unit ratio of
each village are preserved.
Whenever practical, a number of villages may be built with touching boundaries to form a “closely packed” Holigent Town. This arrangement lends itself for eight villages to be built around a central village that will serve as a major civic, commercial and transportation hub.
Any number of villages and towns may be joined by a mass transit system to form a Holigent City. Food and energy farms as well as nature preserves are to be located around and between the towns.
A generic Holigent Village model
Towns joined by high-speed rail to make a Holigent City
Variable Commitment Allocation Plan (Delta Plan)
The Delta Plan is an agreement between participating employers,
their employees, and the nonprofit community management organization.
Plan A
In normal conditions a member individual’s obligations are balanced between employment, community and rent obligations according to basic agreements. Members are free-agent employee-residents under an individual or collective Delta Plan.
Plan B
During moderate economic hard times, affected employees’ commitments would be varied according to a negotiated or pre-arranged scale. Affected companies would reduce some or all employees’ pay and/or work-hours. Affected employees would work more hours in community service and pay a larger portion of their rent with earned C-credit.
Plan C
During severe economic hard times an affected company would go into a dormant state rather than shut down. Their employee-residents would go on unpaid furlough rather than laid off and recalled when work again is available. Increased community work allows furloughed employee-residents to retain their apartments and pay most or all their rent with earned C-credit. Participating employers, in order to avoid permanent shutdown, must be either debt-free, insured, subsidized, or otherwise be able to reorganize or freeze obligations to be covered for the dormant period. This plan would preserve a company’s physical, business, and workforce assets as well as its employee-residents’ workplace, housing and essential quality of life.
By introducing a local community credit ( C-credit – a human resource barter-based system) in parallel with the general economy, a hybrid system is developed that preserves the best features of the general/global economy while providing a degree of separation for the preservation of local wealth and economic security.
The Holigent Solution
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Villages clustered to make a Holigent Town
A Hybrid Economic Arrangement
The Holigent Solution focuses on economic rearrangements in order to provide a degree of separation between the local and global economy. This separation facilitates economic security and social harmony even during severe downturns of the general/global economy.
The heart of the Holigent Solution is the Variable Commitment Allocation Plan (or Delta Plan) that contains three general variations. The details of each plan are negotiated and agreements are drawn among participating employers, their employees-residents and the nonprofit community organization. This solution can be introduced to participating elements of a Transitional Urban Village or within a Holigent Urban Village.
While a Transitional Urban Village may share a substantial part of a village property with commercial developments the Holigent Urban Village is mostly or wholly developed and operated as a nonprofit enterprise with reciprocal agreements and advantages for all the participants.
