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Click here to see the big picture! Village Development of America LLC (ViDA!) is a for-profit development company that facilitates the establishment of sustainable and empowering mixed-used, mixed-income neighborhoods, so that we can all live in vibrant, alive communities, and prosper. First our design team listens for the collective wisdom of your group, gathering a whole vision based in the …

Click on graphic above to see the big picture! Village Development of America LLC (ViDA!) is a for-profit development company that facilitates the establishment of sustainable and empowering mixed-used, mixed-income neighborhoods, so that we can all live in vibrant, alive communities, and prosper. Brian Skeele, Village Development of America, LLC December 18, 2006 Out of the 2002 International Making Cities …

Click on graphic above to see the big picture with an empowering, more sustainable lifestyle, where you and your neighbors thrive. Learning is lifelong and readily accessible, and you can mentor each other to acquire empowering skills that enable you to transform your lifestyle and the planet. You feel deep satisfaction from contributing to “The Solution” – of doing your …

Click on the graphic to see the big picture A More Abundant Lifestyle The Sustainable Santa Fe Neighborhoods Group (SFSNG) came up with the idea of giving as a key to a more abundant lifestyle. Currently, infill and new development often give very little to neighborhoods, usually a loss of views and open space, more traffic, and a deadness associated …

Strategies for More Abundance Multi-Use Options Single Use House Design Live/work, short commute! Lowers family’s need for car vs. Every adult needs a car to get everywhere Affordable homes with shared kitchens and private baths vs. Single family dwellings Attached greenhouses, with cisterns vs. Food driven long distances Live/Work Walk to work, safer neighborhood with “eyes on the street” vs. …

Sustainable Urban Village is a mash up of opposites. “Village” is pastoral, dreamy, idealistic, old fashioned, small and intimate. “Urban” conjures up pretty much the opposite-gritty, concrete and asphalt, contemporary, hip, huge and cold. Add “sustainable” to the mix, and it becomes ….an odd phrase. Where would one find such a creature? And what qualities will it embody? As we …

Click on the graphic above to see the big picture! If you feel your neighborhood is missing the vitality and connection that you long for, take the leap to a place beyond suburbia where you and your neighbors can live, work, shop, play, age in place and thrive all within walking distance.  With profit sharing and other strategies, you can …

Posted on | July 19, 2010 | No Comments The ViDA Mission If you feel your neighborhood is missing the vitality and connection that you long for, take the leap to a place beyond suburbia where you and your neighbors can live, work, shop, play, age in place and thrive all within walking distance.  With profit sharing and other strategies, …

Posted on | July 19, 2010 | No Comments Sustainable Urban Village is an odd phrase. Sustainable Urban Village is a mash up of opposites. “Village” is pastoral, dreamy, idealistic, old fashioned, small and intimate. “Urban” conjures up pretty much the opposite-gritty, concrete and asphalt, contemporary, hip, huge and cold. Add “sustainable” to the mix, and it becomes ….an odd …

Posted on | July 19, 2010 | No Comments Imagine a Vibrantly Alive Neighborhood with an empowering, more sustainable lifestyle, where you and your neighbors thrive. Learning is lifelong and readily accessible, and you can mentor each other to acquire empowering skills that enable you to transform your lifestyle and the planet. You feel deep satisfaction from contributing to “The …