Monthly archive: November 2009

by Jacob Corvidae

Dancing Rabbit is an ecovillage. Detroit is discussing the concept of urban villages within its borders. There is a

Detail of Stone Soup illustration by Jonathan Bouw

Detail of Stone Soup illustration by Jonathan Bouw

strong appeal to the word “village”, and I have been a proponent of village-focused projects. Yet, I’d like to pose this question: are villages (as a social and geographic structure) progressive or regressive? Or perhaps a more refined version of the question is this: when is focusing on village development progressive and when is it regressive?