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  Human nature as prime factor
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 For all theorizing of ideas concerning economic or urban ideas, the prime factor in determining most outcomes is human nature.
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 Groups of humans will tend towards common personality profiles (as if they were one person) in proportion to their common culture, education and social goals.
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 These common personality profiles tend towards common goals of living standards and needs and as a result will tend towards common communities and economic living conditions.
 
 
  Human nature driving human culture
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 For all of human history, human nature has been the prime driver of human culture and the state of human civilization.
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 Human culture has always been based on the foundation that humans are less than one another and a higher being and that socio-economic classes are part of the natural order of the universe.
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 The fundamental alignment of ideas underpinning all human cultures have historically promoted negative human behaviours in the context of self-hate, ignorance, greed, violence, anger, lust, dishonesty and mistrust.
 
 
  Military power and economic prosperity
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 The general economic prosperity of more than a few has always depended upon the benevolence of a military power capable of crushing any uprising or invasion.
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 Military weapons development and law and order security have always been the basis of any ordered and peaceful society.
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 Urban planning ideas have always been associated with the winning powers, with principle emphasis on its impression of power, maintenance of control and legacy.
 
 
  Failure of benevolent “holistic” urban planning
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 There has never been an urban planning theory capable of changing an empire unless the people controlling the society deemed it to their advantage.
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 So long as an empire deems its control is critical on certain economic elements, it will retain control until that control is changed by force or by force of idea.
 
 
  Urbanism
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 A modern urban planning model designed to allow economic prosperity but retain control is urbanism.
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 Urbanism is the promotion of mass consumption (“consumerism”) of kit homes and apartments with personal brand products such as motor vehicles, electronic appliances into markets.
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 Urbanism depends upon the motor vehicle and systems of highways.
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 The success of urbanism means that half of the population of the planet now live in cities and that 60% of residences are examples of “urbanism”.
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 Urbanism has contributed to the massive decline of the traditional urban models of village, town and local precinct.
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 Urbanism has generated the largest growth in home ownership wealth in human history.
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 However, urbanism has generated the greatest decline in quality of local systems (health, education, roads, transport, water etc) as well as the largest rise in cost of those systems in those countries that have experienced the greatest growth of “urbanism”.
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 Urbanism has (until now) helped maintain the essential economic framework of the empire and status quo.
 
 
  Failure of new urbanism
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 The exclusion of traditional local components within urban developments has trapped workers into long periods of travel to places of work, adding stress and fatigue to the lives of millions.
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 The nature of kit homes, commuting and lack of local communal land, community property and “town square” services means that many millions of people are isolated from one another.
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 Urban madness is now a very real condition, of loneliness, mental anguish, stress and unhappiness.
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 Governments can no longer afford to maintain the existing infrastructure of their cities, let alone new urban development. Major cities around the world are at crisis point.
 
 
  Perpetuation of unhappiness
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 So long as cultures are underpinned by inferior concepts of the value of human life, cultures and society will be unhappy and less than it could be.
 
     
     
     
 
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