If you could design your own town

Hmmm. I think the first thing is WHERE I would put this town..... As a child I always used to dream of running away to this place called Collie which was all natural freshwater reservoirs and caves; so I think I would like to build a town somewhere like this. Preferably a rainforest type environment with natural fresh water creeks that flowed into the ocean. I would have all private and public dwellings as integrated into the natural landscape as possible so that if you were to fly over the town you wouldn't even know it was there! It would be in a sub-tropical climate so wind and sun would provide all the energy needed. Because of the natural water sources and the ocean there would be lots of seafood and fresh fruits and vegetables growing very easily and people would exchange what they needed between each other and no money would change hands at all. There would be no cars here either because no-one would need to go anywhere! Everyone would be happy and feel alive because there would be no stress, no dependency on money and because everyone had the same as each other there would be no jealousy or inequality either. The best thing of all is that time would have no place there whatsoever. People eat when they are hungry, sleep when they are tired; and basically LIVE their life happy and free. The name of the town? It wouldn't even HAVE a name. Whenever someone that lived there would be asked by an outsider where they are from they would just close their eyes and smile! I know there are many things that I did not consider in my "dream town" but it's a dream town right! I would love to be somewhere like this place I have described.

Please don't judge me. I'm 28 and the animated Beauty and the Beast is still one of my favorite movies ever. If you've seen it, then I would like you to think of the village where Belle and her father lived. I would like my town to be that way but without the nosy townspeople and the mob with the pitchforks. I would be like Belle with my head in the clouds but I don't think I would want more than that provincial life. The library/bookstore would be a block long and it has every book in the world and I could just wander around it for days. The bakery would be open 24 hours but their pastries, cupcakes, bread and coffee would always be fresh. And speaking of fountains, I want one but with skittles and gummi bears coming out instead of water. And I always want a gazebo at the center of the town with lights and lanterns. I am such a little girl at heart. I think I'll call it the Rabbit Hole... because I think I'd feel like Alice if I ever find myself in such a world. For reference, check www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyP4kuvXe9A. If it's not Baroque, don't fix it!

Hehee...sounds like you have that Tuscany village still in mind, right? If I could design my own town I would want to design it on an English Tudor architectural theme....to make it look like something out of a Medieval/Renaissance English village. Although all the dwellings and shoppes would be modernized enough to have indoor plumbing faculties...I mean lets face it...the way they lived in the Medieval/Renaissance period wasn't exactly sanitary...in those days they just had chamber pots and one threw out one's "doings" out the window...ewwwwww I too wouldn't like cars in the village..but resort to horses and horse-drawn carriages. The streets of the village would be in cobblestone..surrounding the main village would be farmers who would grow all the produce and raise animals for the needs of the villagers.... As for a name????? Mmmmmm....gotta think about that

Hmm ... well ... I am struggling to design my own garden, and how will I design an entire town? I guess I will chase everybody out of it (first, my neighbors) and let the forests grow wild and allow animals and birds to live in it. And I will pretend I am a goddess in paradise. Wow, what peace!! Isn't that a simple way of designing a town? Just drive civilization out of it!! ;) Cheers and happy mylotting

That is a pretty name for a town. Mine would be very high tech, but yes, with lots of windows, HUGE windows, and it would be very clean. Instead of waste baskets, every room would have sophisticated trash compactors that would automatically purify the garbage and turn it into modular little blocks which could then be used to build things like outdoor furniture and walls for the gardens, as there would be plants and streams inside and out. My town's market would be like an ecosphere, a big bubble with complete climate control, but full visibility in and out. My town would also have quiet zones, because one person's music is often another person's infernal racket. rflmao.

Hmm, I have thought about this before. And it is constantly changing for me. Have you seen about the new tree houses that they grow for you? I think you would be highly interested...I saw it on HGTV the other day in the break room. I will go find a link. http://www.archinode.com/bienal.html I like this idea a lot. Then the streets would all be made with that in floor heating stuff, so I didn't have to shovel snow. And the "garbage" would be recycled as much as possible, and "sewer water" I would have electrolyzed so that I could burn the hydrogen to make electricity, and solar power everywhere plausible. I like your idea of no cars allowed, and big parks too.