Modern American cities have been designed and built to sell cars, says Claude Lewenz. So he's developed a better idea.

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The Village Town concept is a fresh start, as Claude Lewenz envisions it, a community built completely new and separate from what has gone before.

Designing the individual villages will be left up to the people who will live in them, Claude Lewenz explains. He offers an outline of how that might happen.

There are, as yet, no Village Towns actually built anywhere, although Lewenz says all the ideas he has incorporated into his concept have been put into practice at various locations all over the world. Why is he looking to Sonoma County as a possible location for the prototype? Well, it wasn't actually his idea.

There will be a free public meeting to further explain the Village Town vision at the Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa, beginning at 7 pm on Friday, Oct. 22. Lewenz offers a short preview in this video introduction.

 

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