PEOPLE and PLACE
THE IMPACT OF PLACE ON PEOPLE
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PLACE: Cities / Neighborhood
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ACCESS to a Many Things that Matter
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TPB note: This graphic was prepared about 30 years ago to highlight the reality that quality of life depended very much on the community and the goods and services and opportunies that were available in the community. This was prepared in response to the poor performance of projects of the World Bank, the UN and other ODA entities which almost always had a single sector focus when the need was for a place or community focus with every important sector for the community being assisted.
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PLACE ... access to all the things that matter
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Air pollution in Thailand
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(1) Clean air
Air pollution is widely recognized in the medical community as a human health hazard. During the industrial revolution, more goods were produced which helped to improve standard of living, but with more and more pollution. It was not until after WWII that major efforts were made to clean up pollution in the rich developed countries. In the UK killer smogs in the early 1950s changed attitudes towards regulation of polluting open coal fires for household heating, and in the 1960s noxious automobile exhaust pollution in Californa, especially the Los Angeles valley energized the regulation of automobile pollution.
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Fresh clean water
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(2) Clean water
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Fresh healthy food
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(3) Healthy food
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(4) Energy
Energy has been a key driver of social progress since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Without access to energy, it is difficult to have a good standard of living.
Different energy sources have different social and environmental impacts that are important to take into consideration.
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Health care when needed
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(5) Healthcare
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Primary School
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(6) Education / skills training
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Public transport
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(7) Transport
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Trusted friend
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(8) Physical safety / security
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A foundational ethic
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(9) Religious / spiritual freedom
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Family fun
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(10) Recreation
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Dance
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(11) Cultural activities
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(12) Community cohesion
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THE PROBLEM OF URBANIZATION
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THE VALUE OF URBANIZATION
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Rural - urban migration
For quite a long time, there has been a flow of population from rural areas to urban areas. This has been caused by big changes in the way the economy works and the way people want to live their lives.
In many parts of the world, there has been a massive increase in agricultural productivity, especially when measured in terms of food production per unit of labor. Two or three centuries ago, almost all the population were working in agriculture in some capacity or other to feed the family. In advanced rich countries, almost all the food is produced by less than 5% of the population, with everyone else doing something different. In less developed countries, the flow of population into urban centers has also been massive in part because of population pressure and the facts of low food prices relative to the past as a result of global agricultural productivity improvement and teh low productivity of most of traditional agriculture.
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Real Estate professionals
Professionals in the real estate industry have had a big role in how the built environment has evolved. There are many situations where what has been good for the real estate industry has been bad for the place and the community as a whole. This is discussed in more depth in the Real Estate section of STREAMS
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The idea of a 'SMART' city has been popularized in the recent past as information technology has become more and more cost effective. The
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Getting data is one thing ... making smart decisions is another.
Most cities have evolved for economic reasons, with those in power in control of the decision making processes. At the foundation had been the concept of financial wealth creation and issues like social impact and environmental impact almost totally ignored. To the extent that these factors had a role, they were handled more through politics than in a meaningful way that would address social and environmental issues.
This paper 'Circular Economy in Cities Evolving the model for a sustainable urban future' presented through the World Economic Forum in 2018 addresses the inefficiencies of the tradtional linear economoic model for cities' ... 'Making cities sustainable means rethinking every element of urban living. This includes moving away from practices such as landfill dumping and degenerating resources (e.g. the incineration of waste). It is, therefore, imperative that solutions are harnessed to ensure products are kept in circulation to minimize the loss of resources during the production and consumption processes.'
The following is an important idea: 'Waste does not exist in nature, because each organism contributes to the health of the whole. A fruit tree’s blossoms fall to the ground and decompose into food for other living things. Bacteria and fungi feed on the organic waste of both the tree and the animals that eat its fruit, depositing nutrients in the soil that the tree can take up and convert into growth. One organism’s waste becomes food for another. Nutrients flow perpetually in regenerative, cradle to cradle1 cycles of birth, decay and rebirth. Waste equals food.” – William McDonough, Architect, Co-Author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (2002) and Author of Something Lived, Something Dreamed (2003) and Positive Cities (Scientific American, July 2017)'
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WEF-Circular-Economy-in-Cities-report-2018
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Traffic
Indonesia
Thailand
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Industry
Petrochemicals
Power generation
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Clean air
Polluted air of many sorts is a hazard to health, and reduces life expectancy considerably.
Clean fresh air is good for people's health. Particulates are particularly hazardous to health.
Without regulation and enforcement, corporate organizations usually put profit performance before public health.
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Fresh clean water
Water is essential to life, but dirty polluted water spreads disease. An effective clean water infrastructure is a major aspect of human health
In the USA, much of the urban infrastrucuture is old and in desperate need of substantial expansion and upgrade.
Around the world, the rapid increase in the population of urban areas means that in many places the infrastructure is totally inadequate.
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Food
Food is one of the things that is essential to life, and healthy food helps to establish wellness. The for-profit food industry has engineered food products to encourage consumption at the expense of good nutrition and associated benefits. In wealthy countries poor eating habits have resulted in disease like diabetes, and in very poor communities around the world there is malnutrition either because the food is not available or the food is unaffordable.
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(4) Energy
Energy has been a key driver of social progress since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Without access to energy, it is difficult to have a good standard of living.
Different energy sources have different social and environmental impacts that are important to take into consideration.
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Health care when needed
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(5) Healthcare
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Primary School
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(6) Education / skills training
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Police
Trusted friends
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Law Courts
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Safety / security / Law and Order
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A foundational ethic
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(9) Religious / spiritual freedom
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Dance
Theatre
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Music
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CULTURE / DANCE / THEATRE
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(12) Community cohesion
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AIR POLLUTION
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THE NATURAL CAPITAL
DIMENSION OF PLACE
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LOCATION / LAND / WATER / AIR / CLIMATE / ECOSYSTEM SERVICES / BIODIVERSITY / NATURAL RESOURCES
LAND In its natural state the LAND has certain natural characteristics which are changed when there is 'development'. In most cases the NATURAL VALUE will decline as the BUILT VALUE increases. BOTH must be taken into consideration.
LAND - PEOPLE BUILT LAND USE for HUMAN ACTIVITIES, BUILT STRUCTURES, PROCESSES. ETC. ranging from large scale crop mono-culture agriculture, to mining, to deforestation, to mangrove destruction.
LAND - ECOSYSTEM SERVICES are essential for a natural equilibrium but totally ignored in the pursuit of profit. They much be valued and they must be numbered.
LAND - NATURAL BIODIVERSITY has been billions of years in the making, and might be just hundreds of years in reaching extinction on a massive scale. This much be valued and must be numbered.
WATER There are both FLOWS of WATER and STOCKS of WATER. There is also the QUALITY of the WATER and what it can be used for. Some WATER is CONSUMED and some WATER is contaminated. Contaminated water may be treated or it may simply flow downstream through a watershed doing damage as it goes.
AIR / ATMOSPHERE - LOCAL POLLUTION has a direct impact on human health at the local level.
AIR / ATMOSPHERE - ATMOSPHEIRC POLLUTION including Ozone depletion, Greenhouse Gases which fundamentally change the way in which solar energy reaches earth caused by emissions of OO2 and other gases at a local level but with global consequences like global warming, acid rain, etc.
CLIMATE determines many aspects of what is possible in a PLACE. Some places have rainfall, others do not. Some have temperate climate (moderate temperatures) while others are tropical and others are very cold. Some places have violent weather events ... hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, etc, Climate change is an existential threat because many established bio-systems cannot adjust rapidly enough and will become extinct.
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THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL
DIMENSION OF PLACE
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PHYSICAL CAPITAL / BUILDINGS
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PHYSICAL CAPITAL / INFRASTRUCTURE
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BUILDINGS / TRANSPORT AND UTILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE / MACHINERY AND EQIPMENT / PROCESSES
INFRASTRUCTURE / PROCESSES
... HOUSING ...
... FOOD ...
... HEALTH ...
... EDUCATION ...
... TRANSPORT ...
... BUSINESS / INDUSTRIAL ...
... ENERGY ...
... COMMUNICATIONS ...
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Climate / Renewable Energy ... Cities taking the lead
Mayors Could Shift Nearly 42 Percent Of U.S. Electricity To Renewables By 2035 ... The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is prompting more than 1,400 mayors to make their own pledges.
Sierra-Club-RF100-Report-2017 ... 'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Cities/Sierra-Club-RF100-Report-2017.pdf'
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Sierra-Club-RF100-Report-2017
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FINANCIAL WEALTH that is owned by PEOPLE in the PLACE, or by INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES in the PLACE that BENEFIT the PLACE.
FINANCIAL FLOWS - I that either weaken or strengthen the FINANCIAL STATE of the PLACE as they flow in or out of the PLACE.
FINANCIAL FLOWS - II that are required internally (taxes and expenditures) in order to maintain the PLACE or improve the PLACE
ECOSYSTEM FOR BANKING AND FINANCE has become a critical part of the socio-enviro-economic system enabling money based transactions. A similar system is needed to facilitate value based banking.
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KNOWLEDGE / KNOW-HOW ... RESEARCH / NEW KNOWLEDGE
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INSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL / GOVERNANCE
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PUBLIC SAFETY / JUSTICE / LAW AND ORDER
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MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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Open MAIN-NAV#PLACE
Open L0700-RE-PLACES
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GO #PLACE
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MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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Open MAIN-NAV#PLACE
Open L0700-RE-PLACE-temp
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GO #PLACE
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MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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Open MAIN-NAV#PLACE
Open L0200-PLACE
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GO #PLACE
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PLACE CONTRIBUTES TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE
PEOPLE contribute to quality of life that is, family and friends, community, society ... all interacting in the place
It is also about what the NATURAL CAPITAL of the PLACE offers
It is also about the PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES and SYSTEMS ... the CREATED CAPITAL of many sorts that are in the PLACE and facilitate much of what goes on in the PLACE and especially the organizations that employ people and provide products and services needed to support quality of life.
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PLACE CONTRIBUTES TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE
PLACE IS WHERE NATURAL CAPITAL IS DEGRADED, whether it is degradation of the land, water pollution, air pollution, resource exploitation or greenhouse gases.
PLACE IS WHERE PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES are located, structures with financial value, personal utility AND an environmental cost.
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THE STATE OF A PLACE ... THOUSANDS OF ELEMENTS THAT GO INTO VALUING (NUMBERING) THE STATE OF THE PLACE
PROGRESS OF THE PLACE ... HOW MUCH HAS STATE IMPROVED IN A GIVEN AMOUNT OF TIME.
PERFORMANCE OF THE PLACE ... WHAT RESOURCES WERE CONSUMED TO ACHIEVE THIS PROGRESS
PROBLEMS AND CONSTRAINTS / POSSIBILITIES ... Everywhere is different, and the best way to get high performance progress is to remove a constraint that makes it possible for everything else to work better.
PLACE IS WHERE NATURAL CAPITAL IS DEGRADED, whether it is degradation of the land, water pollution, air pollution, resource exploitation or greenhouse gases.
PLACE IS WHERE PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES are located, structures with financial value, personal utility AND an environmental cost.
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PLACE IS WHERE NATURAL CAPITAL IS DEGRADED, whether it is degradation of the land, water pollution, air pollution, resource exploitation or greenhouse gases.
PLACE IS WHERE PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES are located, structures with financial value, personal utility AND an environmental cost.
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MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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Open L0200-PLACE
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GO #PLACE
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NAVIGATION TO INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC PLACES
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PLACE ... Navigation
Navigation to information about specific places
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OVERVIEW / WHY PLACE IS IMPORTANT
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PLACE - WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES / WHERE EVERYTHING HAPPENS
Everything happens in PLACE, it is where people live and work and play, and, it is where economic activity consumes resources, degrades the environment and produces products that a needed and wanted by people.
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L0700-PL-PLACE-temp
L0700-PL-PLACE-temp
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THE STATE OF A PLACE ... THOUSANDS OF ELEMENTS THAT GO INTO VALUING (NUMBERING) THE STATE OF THE PLACE
PROGRESS OF THE PLACE ... HOW MUCH HAS STATE IMPROVED IN A GIVEN AMOUNT OF TIME.
PERFORMANCE OF THE PLACE ... WHAT RESOURCES WERE CONSUMED TO ACHIEVE THIS PROGRESS
PROBLEMS AND CONSTRAINTS / POSSIBILITIES ... Everywhere is different, and the best way to get high performance progress is to remove a constraint that makes it possible for everything else to work better.
MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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Open L0700-RE-PLACES
Open L0700-RE-PLACE-temp
Open L0200-PLACE
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GO #PLACE
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The following appeared in a 2014 report for the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation about addressing poverty in the Pacific Northwest of the USA.
This has the idea that people are a foundational building block for success at the community level ... something that is central to the TVM methodology.
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METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PLACE
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TVM MDIA White Paper ... Place in MDIA
TVM-MDIA-WP-Place-140226a.odt ... an 8 page TVM essay prepared in 2014 about the importance of appreciating place and how analytics of place can be foundation for better decision making
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/TVM-MDIA-WP-Place-140226a.pdf
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TVM-MDIA-CA-WorkBook-001_141124
A draft workbook (about 30 pages) from around 2008 to collect community information
Now obsolete based on rethinking about the limitations of conventional metrics and how they have to be rethought to make metrics effective, easy to use and low cost.
'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/CA-WorkBook/TVM-MDIA-CA-WorkBook-001_141124.pdf'
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Open PDF ... TVM-MDIA-CA-WorkBook-001_141124
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Slideset: p3-TVA-for-PLACE-USA-Baltimore-MD-160325
A slideset in development to describe redevelopment in Baltimore
http://www.slideshare.net/PeterBurgess2/tva-for-place-usa-baltimore-md
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TVM-Short-Introduction-to-7D-Capitalism-and-MDIA-141008
'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/TVM-Short-Introduction-to-7D-Capitalism-and-MDIA-141008.pdf'
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TVM-Short-Introduction-to-7D-Capitalism-and-MDIA-141008
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Community Analytics ... Components of the STATE of PLACE
from the Community Analytics workbook from 2008
1 1 General
1 1 1 Location
2 1 2 Population and Demographics
3 1 3 Physical Geography
2 5 Natural Resources
9 2 1 Agriculture
10 2 2 Fisheries
11 2 3 Minerals
12 2 4 Coal, oil and gas
13 2 5 Timber
14 2 6 Bio-diversity
15 2 7 Game and wildlife
16 2 8 Water
3 3 Economics
17 3 1 Jobs and Employment
4 4 Money and banking
18 4 1 Microcredit
19 4 2 Minicredit
20 4 3 Municredit
21 4 4 Housing finance
22 4 5 Business banking
23 4 6 Insurance, etc.
24 4 7 Remittance systems
5 5 Infrastructure
25 5 1 Housing
26 5 2 Water
27 5 3 Sanitation
28 5 4 Electricity
29 5 5 Community facilities
30 5 6 Roads and bridges
31 5 7 Seaports and waterways
32 5 8 Airports
33 5 9 Energy
34 5 10 Communications
6 6 Science and Technology
35 6 1 Medical science
36 6 2 Transport technology
37 6 3 Communications
38 6 4 Knowledge technology
7 7 Business
39 7 1 Construction
40 7 2 Retail trade
41 7 3 Wholesale trade
42 7 4 Transport
43 7 5 Mining Industry
44 7 6 Agriculture
45 7 7 Fisheries
46 7 8 Forestry
47 7 9 Agro-Industry
48 7 10 Manufacturing
49 7 11 Hospitality
50 7 12 Tourism
51 7 13 ICT telecenters
52 7 14 Prostitution
53 7 15 Narcotics
8 8 Professional
54 8 1 Accounting
55 8 2 Legal
56 8 3 Business consulting
57 8 4 Other consulting
58 8 5 Engineering
59 8 6 Architects
60 8 7 Testing labs
9 9 Health
61 9 1 Health status
62 9 2 Health professionals
63 9 3 Other health workers
64 9 4 Health infrastructure
65 9 5 Health organizations
66 9 6 Health services
67 9 7 AIDS
68 9 8 Malaria
69 9 9 Mother/child
10 10 Education
70 10 1 Literacy and educational status
71 10 2 School infrastructure
72 10 3 Teachers and school supplies
11 11 Not for Profit Services
73 11 1 Local organizations
74 11 2 Visiting organizations
75 11 3 Religion and Religious organizations
76 11 4 Orphans and vulnerable children
77 11 5 Hospice care
12 12 Culture
78 12 1 Music and dance
79 12 2 Tradition and history
13 13 Other
80 13 1 Any other matter
14 2 Governance
4 14 4 Community Governance
5 14 5 Area Governance
6 14 6 National Governance \
15 3 Security
7 15 7 Security
8 15 8 Crime rate
16 8 Sports
17 9 Entertainment
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ICONIC URBAN ARCHITECTURE
Urban architecture /
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PLACE / MANY DIFFERENT INSTANCES
COUNTRIES - STATES - CITIES/URBAN AREAS - SUBURBS - RURAL AREAS - COMMUNITIES - NEIGHBORHOODS - ETC.
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PLACE
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES / CITIES, REGIONS, COUNTRIES
Everything happens in PLACE, it is where people live and work and play, and, it is where economic activity consumes resources, degrades the environment and produces products that a needed and wanted by people.
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COMMUNITY / NEIGHBORHOOD
Community is an instance of a PLACE. They are small enough to be easy to understand, and therefore easier to manage. It is place where people are at the center of everything.
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Navigation to examples of COMMUNITY / NEIGHBORHOOD
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CITIES
Cities and urban communities are instances of PLACE. They have large populations and are complex, difficult to understand and to manage successfully
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COUNTRIES
Country level data provide the dominant metrics used by organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations and others in the assessment of socio-economic progress and performance. In TVM we want to go deeper than the country level metrics ... the country is a start.
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REGIONS
In this context, a region is a group of countries such as the Middle East, or Europe or some group of countries such as NATO or the Horn of Africa.
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Provinces of Canada
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STATE or AREA
A STATE or AREA is a part of a country. It may be delineated by some physical geographic characteristic or it may be defined administratively. The Nile River basin would be an example of a physical characteristic. A Province in Canada or a State in the United States are examples of administative delineation.
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THE STATE OF THE PLACE
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES ... CITIES, REGIONS, COUNTRIES
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THE PROGRESS OF THE PLACE
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES ... CITIES, REGIONS, COUNTRIES
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IMPACT OF THE POPULATION ON THE PLACE
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THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PLACE
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES ... CITIES, REGIONS, COUNTRIES
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IMPACT OF PLACE ON THE INDIVIDUAL
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES ... CITIES, REGIONS, COUNTRIES
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COMMUNITY / NEIGHBORHOOD
COMMUNITY OR BEIGHBORHOOD IS AN INSTANCE OF PLACE ... SMALL ENOUGH SO THAT PEOPLE REMAIN AT THE CORE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS IMPORTANT IN THE PLACE
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TO DO NOTE ... 160625
A lot of writing has been done around the idea of COMMUNITY ACCOUNTING, COMMUNITY ANALYTICS, etc. This material is located in various parts of the BURGESS BOOK LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS but has not yet been organized for easy access via website navigation. IMPORTANT TO DO !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Community ... New York City
NY Muslim leaders snub mayoral breakfast
Over a dozen community leaders boycott event in protest of reports the police infiltrated Muslim areas for surveillance.
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Communities
Bath UK
A beautiful collection of arial photographs of Bath by Photographer, Heidi Anne Morris
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Act locally
Mapping Neighborhoods To Create Neighborhood Opportunities
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Saw Creek ... Bushkill PA
Community ... Saw Creek Estates in Bushkill PA. Saw Creek Men's Club ... Member contacts
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Community-Youth-Wellbeing-Alexandria-2015
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Community/Community-Youth-Wellbeing-Alexandria-2015.pdf'
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bcec-community-wellbeing-from-the-ground-up-a-yawuru-example
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/community/bcec-community-wellbeing-from-the-ground-up-a-yawuru-example.pdf'
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FSG-Redefining-Expectations-for-Place-based-Philanthropy
Key Points: This article discusses how The California Endowment has used a midcourse strategic review to refine Building Healthy Communities, aiming to provide insight for other place-based initiatives and to add to the body of knowledge about how to support transformative community change. ·
With Building Healthy Communities, the endowment is taking a new approach to community change using a dual strategy to build community capacity in 14 places and scale the impact of its local efforts through statewide policy advocacy and communications.
In 2013, it commissioned a strategic review to reflect on what it has learned from the first three years of this innovation in place-based work. · Through interviews, focus groups, surveys, and document review, examples have emerged of how this unique approach is contributing to community change. The review also surfaced tensions created by the design and implementation of the strategy that could impede progress.
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Initiatives/FSG/FSG-Redefining-Expectations-for-Place-based-Philanthropy.pdf'
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FSG-Redefining-Expectations-for-Place-based-Philanthropy
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Community-Ajuma-Initiative
An initiative in Boston
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Community/Community-Ajuma-Initiative.pdf'
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Community Analysis
TVM analysis has a community focus. The frequency of TVM analysis depends on the natural frequency of the subject matter and the objective of the analysis. TVM reporting aims to make the result of analysis easily accessible, convenient and timely. The purpose of TVM reporting is to facilitate decision making that improves the quality of life of a community.
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Reporting Entity / Reporting Envelope
Reporting about a community is primarily about ALL about the PLACE ... it is more than about the performance of the Government of the PLACE which is an ORGANIZATION in the PLACE, albeit an important organization. A COMMUNITY is the totality of PEOPLE, the PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY and the associated NATURAL CAPITAL, and the totality of all the CREATED CAPITAL ... all the PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS that are located in the PLACE.
The STATE of the PLACE depends to a great extent on the QUALITY OF LIFE of the POPULATION that is located in the PLACE.
Everything else modifies the STATE of the PLACE as initially described by reference to QUALITY OF LIFE ... either directly or indirectly.
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Elements for Community Progress Analysis
The primary community elements are the following:
... People ... families
... Organizations
... Sectors
... Activities
... Programs and projects
... Events
... Resources
... Constraints
... Possibilities ... potential
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Complexity
The socio-economic interactions in a community are complex ... and probably the critical determinant in the process of progress. The graphic below sets out some of the pieces of the puzzle ... people and the family, the extended family and friends ... all together are the base building block of community.
In community there are all sorts of activities that go on ... economic, cultural, spiritual. All have varying importance. All interact with each other in a multitude of ways. They all have some role in success ... or they serve to constrain and limit progress. |
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Governance
There is also governance. Human society creates governance ... it may be light, or not. Governance that is internal, local and relevant has some advantages over external governance that may not be respectful of local conditions. A mix of both may well be best ... and result in a favorable enabling environment.
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Organization and Organizations
There is also organization. Without organization, people are severely limited ... but with organization people can do collectively many things that they cannot do on their own.
Organizations ... High performance economic activities are invariably carried out by organizations. It is possible for individuals to do significant creative work, but production needs organization and organized investment.
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Management System / Organizational Framework
More than anything else, a system is needed that allows the people of a community to self organize and optimize how the resources of the community are best used. The foundation of such as system is a set of appropriate performance metrics.
This is the goal of TrueValueMetrics (TVM), which is a system of metrics for socio-economic measurement that builds on the two key ideas: (1) the basic concepts of money accountancy used by organizations; and (2) the idea that this can be modified so that it has community focus rather than organization focus, embracing accounting for value as well as simply accounting for money.
TVM note: The key concepts of money accountancy used by organizations are (1) the idea of double entry; and (2) the organization of data into accounts that either relate to operations, or relate to the balance sheet. These ideas make it possible to draw conclusions about performance without having a full set of data but without compromising the reliability of the conclusion.
The system of accountancy that is used by organizations record money transactions and prepare reports to the stakeholders of the organization. There is a tremendous pool of experience associated with this work ... but it has the weakness that the impact on society (human/social capital) has never been part of the system which also has excluded impact on environment (natural capital).
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Granularity
Even though a community is simpler ... it is still quite complex, but this complexity can be understood. Though there may be many relationships, they are relatively simple, and therefore, understandable. At the community level people have names, and are not merely part of a statistical pool. Activities are tangible, and accounting for costs and results is an exercise that everyone with interest can understand. The community is where progress dynamics are easier to understand and where measurement has more clarity.
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Definitions for TrueValueMetrics
Drafted around 2004
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Issue
Community
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Basic observation
Community has been ignored by ORDA organizations. Lip service is paid to community and participative processes with rapid visits by experts. Most communities have seen very little of development importance in past sixty years. A vast missing link in the development process .
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Prevailing response
A growing amount of “participative” development assistance, but the process is still controlled by the donors and the “top” of the socio-economic hierarchy
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A better response
Community Centric Sustainable Development (CCSD) puts the community at the center of economic progress. It builds on the idea that not only “all politics is local”, but that “all living is local”. A key part of CCSD is using a set of metrics to measure activity cost and the related values within the community.
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