While I might not want to live <i>in Arden</i>, I love the experimental approach to self-organization.<p>I feel like a dozen of similar experimental communities allowed to succeed or fail, and they might bubble up some useful heuristics for how cities/towns organize themselves.<p>I feel like the dominant model of town organization in the USA leaves much to be desired.
> "The idea that children could be out without a parent hovering was just completely unknown to them," Macklem recalls. "And the fact that the kids talked to someone who they obviously knew but who was not a parent."<p>I didn´t know the situation in the US was quite so dystopical that kids on their own was any surprise...
Delawarean here. Growing up, I had the impression that Arden was just a place for aged hippies, history buffs, and the overeducated idle class to have space to live out their utopian fantasies without bothering the rest of us.<p>I mean, if you think about the town meetings in "Gilmore Girls," where you have these people who are <i>really into town meetings</i>, you probably know that they're meant to be an exaggerated parody of the handful of people who show up at town meetings and are really, uh, passionate about their viewpoints. Only in "Gilmore Girls," the whole town is like that.<p>Well, I would much rather have them all in Arden, duking it out, than spread out more generally in North Wilmington and northern New Castle County, causing eye rolls everywhere.<p>That said, Arden is not nearly as much of an insulated place anymore. I think, for the majority of residents, it's just an address and not a philosophy.
As a part time resident, and a passionate Georgist, I love the Ardens. The three villages function separately for governance, but socially they're one, and there is a lot going on. The history is fascinating. (If you have access to newspapers.com, read it chronologically. I'm still working through it.) If you're in the area in early September, don't miss the Arden Fair.
Well that was odd. Tried to read page two on my Android Oreo device, had "virus" like alerts springing up. Sorry, this is off topic, but I think there's reason to suspect that web page.
I’m not sure how I feel about LVT. It seems like the most fair form of taxation, but physical land is decreasingly tied to productivity and wealth, so it seems to make less sense than in the past.
>After the prisoners' sentences were completed, the town celebrated with a circus. The performance included an arrest of its own: A clown dressed as a cop entered the audience, grabbed a surprised Sinclair, and marched him away from the show.<p>Surely the author meant to write a cop dressed as a clown?
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