Intentional community

An intentional community is a planned community which is often residentially designed from the beginning to have a high degree of social cohesion through a common interaction.

The members of an intentional community often hold common values which involve a social, political, religious, or spiritual vision. They will often follow lifestyle with particular goals or purposes in mind. They typically share some responsibilities and resources.

Intentional communities include collective households, cohousing communities, ecovillages, communes, survivalist retreats, religious orders, kibbutzim, ashrams, and housing cooperatives.

Most ancient civilizations evolved from intentional communities. The foundational values that are held by a community will dictate the growth or decay of a society.

The Greek city states evolved a number of different societies and as they shifted values they also shifted the nature of society. The shift created new problems or dynamics which cause values to shift again.

Rome, the Teutons and ancient Israel all began with specific sets of values all shifted those values based which changed society and then the people within society and then another shift in values occurred producing new changes.

Each of these societies created foundational structures from the 12 Tablets of Rome to the Ten Commandments of Israel.

Understanding these foundational values, guidelines and limits and where straying from them brings social degeneration is important in a sustainable community.

One of that natural governing agents of society is the purpose for gathering. The purposes of intentional communities vary. They may include sharing limited resources, creating physical or financially safety and or more spiritual and emotional commonality.

Modern Approach

New members of an intentional community are generally selected by the community's existing membership, the leaders or a board rather than by real-estate agents or land owners especially if the land is owned collectively by the community.

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