[VBbuilders] HINTERLAND - Germany and Poland

[Mark Petz]

Reminds me of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_town

these Market Towns held a charter and thence all sorts of other rights and
responsibilities could en-shew. DO we see a similar concept with a
VideoBridge Quartermaster role where the smaller video bridge locations in a
surrounding village could be supported?

So in Greece for example every village hall / church / ouzu café (1 per
village) could have a Vbridge location and thus this be the hub to connect
with the newly created district councils?

I wonder what the costings on such a network might be AS WELL AS THE SAVINGS
for environment and fuel costs for the citizen participation.

Mark.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Phil Turner <p.turner at ruralnet.org.uk>wrote:

> Mark and Guiseppe,
>
> HINTERLAND - I agree with Mark that it is important
>
> See the ECOVAST work on small towns and villages and their surrounding
> areas:
> http://ecovastdiscussion.ning.com/forum/topics/small-towns-draft-position
>
> There you will find two downloads - attached here.
> In drafting these, we were careful not to use the term 'hinterland'
> because of the different meanings in German and English langauges.
> Nevertheless, we used the word in preparatory discussions.
>
> ECOVAST's project ASSET – Action to Strengthen the Small European Town –
> is seeing results from research that show good links between towns and
> hinterland, except where infrastructure is lacking.
> Small Towns fall into a policy gap between Cities and Rural.   They are
> hubs for economic, social and cultural activity, offering markets and
> service facilities, and beneficial to all.
>
> The European Commission (DG REGIO) is considering Territorial Cohesion
> Policy and at recent seminars the following was recorded:
> The area around Prague could be characterised as an urban core with
> suburban places, peripheral settlements and a rural hinterland.  There was
> ‘polycentricity’ of peri-urban and rural settlements.
> Prague (with reference to ESPON work) region has 250 micro-regions based
> on labour markets.
> Rural hinterlands have an important role. A tissue of small towns and
> surrounding areas – POLYCENTRICITY.
> This includes places ‘at the edge’ and at the ‘inner periphery’.
>
> Phil
> ------------------
>
> Mark Petz <ravenwyn at gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> >"Social Cooperation Patterns"  that is a great look at what
> >a village is. I think that you should also look at the Hinterland
> model:
> >
> >[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland
> >]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland
> >
> >there is a lot of esp. German deductions from this. It may not be
> >accurate, but it informs policy with the idea of a city having to be
> >responsible for towns that are responsible for villages.
> >
> >RATHER than villages interlinking in a network by themselves without
> any
> >cities.
> >
> >My and I think Franz's proffered solution.
> >
> >Incidentally the Digger and Levellers had elements of these village
> based
> >communities in their philosophies as did Pol Pot in Cambodia, when he
> >tried to destroy cities and make everyone part of village community
> life.
> >
> >so co-operation is different if you have a lead village or town - a
> >heirachy is created rather than the peer to peer networking possible
> >between autonomous self-organized local communities - villages.
> >
> >so can you find some examples of this Guiseppe to illustrate these
> >differences, heirachy and peer to peer in practice. And how
> videobriodge
> >woudl be in co-operation for each of these models repsectively.
> >
> >Lastly also look at social cooperation in a village, for example does
> the
> >women's circle talk to the men's drinking group in the pub? does the
> >church talk to the school? Does the garden club interact in some way
> with
> >the aerobics group? And how might video-bridge facilitate or be an
> >element in that?
> >
> >markus
> >
> >On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Giuseppe Silvi <[
> >mailto:giuseppesilvi at yahoo.it ]giuseppesilvi at yahoo.it> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi Mark, Hi all
> >
> >
> >I attach here a .pdf with a first attempt to understand how to define
> the
> >"Social Cooperation Patterns" ... just a kind of personal
> >"brain storming" through looking at some websites.
> >
> >
> >It is just a start ..... and there is a lot of study and research ahead
> >to accomplish my assignement / task.
> >
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Giuseppe Silvi
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >Da: Mark Petz <[ mailto:ravenwyn at gmail.com ]ravenwyn at gmail.com>
> >A: [ mailto:videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org
> >]videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org
> >Inviato: Ven 8 gennaio 2010, 14:48:08
> >Oggetto: [VBbuilders] is any HELP needed. what is your status??? URGENT
> >
> >
> >Hi All
> >
> >I have been through all the mails that came re video-bridge and tried
> to
> >assist people in developing the patterns. I know we will do more in
> Vein.
> >BUT in accordance with my task to support you I want to know:
> >
> >1. Is there anyone that has not managed to do any work on their
> >assigments yet? Do you need help with that?
> >
> >2. Particularly to to Franz, but others too, where might most usefully
> >more work time be applied now by me?
> >
> >Ciaokka!
> >
> >Markus
> >PS there does not seem any movement on the follow-up project so I'd
> like
> >some progress on that from others - scope, theme and amount we want to
> >get are particulalry important for me to do follow-up.
> >
> >
> >
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