This column marks a year's worth of ideas presented in Bacons Rebellion. To commemorate our first anniversary we are changing pace. This is a short introduction to an old friend.

 

There are 20 columns including three Special Reports plus three "Backgrounders" available from our Profile page. Today, we add a fourth Backgrounder titled Five Critical Realities That Shape the Future. 

 

This Backgrounder is new to Bacon's Rebellion, but it has a history. Five Critical Realities That Shape the Future is a revised version of a summary of important perspective's that were first identified as part of the citizens' education program that preceded the 1999 election in Loudoun County. The presentation of the issues then was refined in preparation of Blueprint for a Liveable Region and re-sharpened for the first edition of the Handbook: Three-Step Process for Creating Balanced Communities in Sustainable New Urban Regions.

 

While the Nine Fundamental Theses found in Box 1, Chapter 1 of The Shape of the Future establish a theoretical framework for understanding the importance of human settlement patterns, Five Critical Realities That Shape the Future present five simple and fundamentally important realities. Every citizen would benefit from understanding these realities before they make location-based decision -- where to buy a house, where to look for a job or start a business, where to acquire goods and services, where to seek recreation and amenity.

 

While these five realities are documented for the National Capital Subregion, they are also valid for every New Urban Region in the United States. Given the recent report by Southern Environmental Law Center on the Richmond New Urban Region, they apply to the third largest New Urban Region in the Commonwealth.

 

Read Five Critical Realities That Shape the Future.

 

Let us know your thoughts.

 

-- December 15, 2003