Sustainable Urban Village

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Sustainable Urban Village is an odd phrase.

Sustainable Urban Village is a mash up of opposites. “Village” is pastoral, dreamy, idealistic, old fashioned, small and intimate. “Urban” conjures up pretty much the opposite-gritty, concrete and asphalt, contemporary, hip, huge and cold. Add “sustainable” to the mix, and it becomes ….an odd phrase. Where would one find such a creature? And what qualities will it embody?

As we contemplate where we’re going as a people and we feel the ground shifting under us as we transform from a car dominated sprawl lifestyle to a pedestrian friendly, ecologically sound, lowered consumptive way of life, I’m suggesting we pick and choose from the best options; incorporating best practices, and lessons learned of what works and what doesn’t, leaving those choices with harsh unintended consequences behind.

“What works” for me, rolls into 5 principles; “Mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods, with lifelong learning and open space……everywhere.” Another way to put it? Sustainable Urban Villages, and they are found….. Read more

Beyond Suburbia Services

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What Does ViDA Do?

Village Development of America LLC (ViDA!) is a for-profit development company that facilitates the establishment of sustainable and empowering mixed-used, mixed-income neighborhoods, so that we can all live in vibrant, alive communities, and prosper.

First our design team listens for the collective wisdom of your group, gathering a whole vision based in the sum of all the contributions. We then plan for success, adding best practices from around the world.

The design team works with your neighborhood, landowners and regulatory bodies to create supportive social, governance, economic and environmental systems and rules. We can also coordinate construction oversite, and co-monitor the development over time, ensuring you and your community a pedestrian-friendly, empowered, more abundant, just, joyful and sustainable world.

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Beyond Suburbia Mission

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The ViDA Mission

If you feel your neighborhood is missing the vitality and connection that you long for, take the leap to a place beyond suburbia where you and your neighbors can live, work, shop, play, age in place and thrive all within walking distance.  With profit sharing and other strategies, you can have a higher Quality of Life, while living lighter on the Planet!

Village Development of America (ViDA!, Spanish for “life”), exists to bring more life into your neighborhood. We assist in gathering a common vision and finding new ways to make life better for everyone – a kind of “neighborhood extended family.”

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Beyond Suburbia Vision

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Imagine a Vibrantly Alive Neighborhood

with an empowering, more sustainable lifestyle, where you and your neighbors thrive. Learning is lifelong and readily accessible, and you can mentor each other to acquire empowering skills that enable you to transform your lifestyle and the planet. You feel deep satisfaction from contributing to “The Solution” – of doing your part.

Image living Rumi’s exultant maxim, “let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”  Life is good  in a place where you can invest your energy, creativity and ideas into your surroundings, creating beauty. Add a safer, simpler walkable lifestyle that financially rewards your efforts to your imagined neighborhood.

Remember being a kid in the summer, bicycling around the neighborhood with your friend? Time stood still and there was magic in the air. What if that experince could happen again for the children of your neighborhood? Imagine the stress levels falling as you know your children are safe and looked after while you chat or work alongside your “family” – your neighbors.

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