Dwelling in Expanded Biotic Communities: Steps Toward Reconstructive Postmodern Communities - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 326

FIGURE 18.2
The high walls in Green Valley homes thwart the possibility of a community sense.
FIGURE 18.3
Statue art as marketing tool in Green Valley to convey a community feel.
be allowed to emerge slowly to allow specific needs of the community to emerge over
time. Otherwise, attempts at community design and planning might lead to alienating
community residents by excluding them from decisions affecting the fundamental
structure of the community.
While the goal is to create features that foster community feeling and respect for
diverse community members, the planned turnover in home ownership has spawned
extensive covenants in the terms of ownership of each home to preserve resale values.
This is often done in ways that stipulate what may or may not be done to the design of
the home, resulting in a bland repetition of landscape and home ornamentation. The legal
penalties are enforced, insuring that residents do not attempt to live in a way that might