interesting, in one of the works of A. Allen Butcher, one of the foremost experts on community economics: https://we.riseup.net/assets/4969/ELAN.pdf (more at http://p2pfoundation.net/Jarin_Boonmathya?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%22A... ) "Historical Efforts in Developing Community as Industry There have been many efforts in the past to develop community as industry, and we can see some of these in the "material feminist" proposals, projects and even patents presented in writings by Dolores Hayden (see: Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life, and The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities), Hayden's work includes mentions of Ebenezer Howard's "Garden Cities," Frederick Law Olmsted's "Garden Suburbs," and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Green Belt" housing and community development program, part of the 1930s New Deal initiatives. See the following. • Hayden: http://www.architecture.yale.edu/faculty/ professors/hayden/hayden.htm • Howard and Olmsted: http://www.asu.edu/caed/ proceedings98/Garvin/garvin.html • Roosevelt: http://www.mdmunicipal.org/cities/ index.cfm?townname=Greenbelt&page=home" -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens