Below are elements of the vision regarding the city, people and communities that emerged during the last MOAC (Mother of all cafes) event:

A living city for people

• Mobile city with people occupying streets and using public transport
• Bringing the life out in the streets
• More tables in the street hosted by cafes and bars; council needs to make easier to facilitate this
• Happier city - because people feel better, less pollution, a healthier body is a happier person.
• 24 hour – life
• Sustainability has to be planned - smaller buildings and less people - to be achieved i.e. review of housing density.
• Places to stop and talk on the streets

Communities

• Socially sustainable communities. Diversity. Equal chance, no disadvantage
• Self-organising hubs for more local events to occur
• Provision of opportunity for work, businesses, education, transport, living choices for all types of people
• Through behaviours which stem from positive attitudes more focused and adaptable resulting in more harmonious lifestyles. Can be achieved through greening the workforce, encouraging entrepreneurial behaviour i.e. grass roots up.
• Housing - design, co-housing, more externalise life (go to the movies together vs buy your own home cinema ...)
• Have to have faith and values
• Connected communities; community gardens in Green
• Whiteboard/blackboard with quote or question of the week to provoke thought.

What do you think? How do we go about making it happen?