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This model attempts to illustrate a Strong Towns' perspective of municipal financing of our communities based on a development Growth Ponzi Scheme. http://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/

The communal economic investment by the community to help generate future economic prosperity and improve the community's quality of life.

If the community generates greater economic prosperity as a result of the Near Term Cash either directly through increased Municipal Revenue or indirectly through the enhancement of Community Wealth Generators and Place Making improvements within the community then it is a desirable investment.

If, however, it leads to ever increasing debt and the chasing of outside investments with the community as the means of collateral then it is a Growth Ponzi Scheme and the community needs to create some new paradigms to find a different path.

Ponzi Growth Scheme Strong Towns

Brian Dowling

Clone of the Systems Thinking Certification program Leverage model. There exists a well defined set of possible ways to alter an existing set of interactions. Each of these alterations will produce a particular effect depending on the relations the change is relative to. Identifying which are possible and which will migrate the interactions to produce the desired situation is the essence of the strategy.

Clone of Leverage

Brian Dowling

This systems 'story' model is an expansion of Insightmaker model 11923# A 'Better World' thru Systems Thinking. It sets forth an argument that those wishing to promote Participatory Democracy as a viable means of community decision making would be well served incorporating systems thinking into their community governance processes. It does so by demonstrating that some of the principles of participatory democracy not only fit well with a successful program of systems thinking but could also be mutually beneficial.

Better Deliberative and Participatory Democratic Community Based Governance through Systems Thinking

Participatory Democracy with Systems Thinking

Brian Dowling

Complexity in the form of Wicked Problems or Challenges is one of the major afflictions facing our communities. This Causal Loop Diagram is intended to demonstrate how a system of community governance could go off track resulting in a municipal government which maintains power despite not meeting the needs or desires of most its constituents. It also demonstrates the difficulty in communicating this to the average community member as the system is not designed for clear communications. The community member has difficulty in getting a clear picture of the system and even has even greater difficulty in seeing any resolution.

Complexity assailing our Communities

Brian Dowling

This model is an attempt to map out a template for a general implementation plan or strategy for the Enabling a Better Tomorrow process for use with New Community Paradigms

Clone of Strategy for Enabling a Better Tomorrow New Community Paradigms

Ana Cristina Beja

The difference between complexity and complicatedness.

Clone of Complexity vs Complicated

Brian Dowling

Un modello per l'effetto di alcuni fattori (T, pH, aW, conservanti) e della competizione/amensalismo sulla crescita di una comunità microbica semplificata (Listeria monocytogenes, Latilactobacillus sakei) negli alimenti.

Lo scopo del modello è illustrare concetti come:

a. la crescita in assenza o in presenza di competizione/amensalismo

b. l'effetto delle interazioni microbiche

c. l'effetto di alcuni fattori ambientali e tecnologici

Il sistema potrebbe ragionevolmente rappresentare un insaccato fermentato durante la produzione. Tuttavia non ho inserito quelli che potrebbero essere effetti di declino delle popolazioni dovuti alle condizioni avverse durante la stagionatura e conservazione.

Clone of Dinamica di una comunità microbica negli alimenti

claudio

There has been an ongoing effort to find a means of making systems thinking accessible and readily adopted by others not familiar with systems thinking. One line of thinking places a good deal of the blame on systems thinkers themselves, the problem is that they have not found a good enough method of explaining it and its benefits yet.

Another possibility though is the extent to which those who are to be helped feel besieged by the situation in which they find themselves making them extremely wary about trying something new.

This model is not realistic, at least it is hoped that there isn't anyplace where things are this bad. Different communities will be better or worse off in different categories and some will be succeeding in all areas. Those are the communities we need to learn from.

More explanation can be found under the information icons associated with each of the elements.

Clone of Complexity, Corruption and False Complacency assailing our Communities

Nirmal Chandra

This model is an extension of the System Thinking Certification course Network Magic Growing Pains segment and the Strategies for Enabling a Better Tomorrow model, which served as the blueprint for this model.

This model is intended to become part of an online learning platform which includes the with the Pathways to New Community Paradigms Blog, Pathways to New Community Paradigms Wiki and a number of other Internet based resources to explore what is termed here 'new community paradigms' which are a transformational change brought about by members of a community.

New Community Paradigms Entrenched City Halls

Brian Dowling

Un modello per l'effetto di alcuni fattori (T, pH, aW, conservanti) e della competizione/amensalismo sulla crescita di una comunità microbica semplificata (Listeria monocytogenes, Latilactobacillus sakei) negli alimenti.

Lo scopo del modello è illustrare concetti come:

a. la crescita in assenza o in presenza di competizione/amensalismo

b. l'effetto delle interazioni microbiche

c. l'effetto di alcuni fattori ambientali e tecnologici

Il sistema potrebbe ragionevolmente rappresentare un insaccato fermentato durante la produzione. Tuttavia non ho inserito quelli che potrebbero essere effetti di declino delle popolazioni dovuti alle condizioni avverse durante la stagionatura e conservazione.

Clone of Dinamica di una comunità microbica negli alimenti

claudio

This model is an attempt to map out a template for a general implementation plan or strategy for the Enabling a Better Tomorrow process for use with New Community Paradigms

Clone of Clone of Strategy for Enabling a Better Tomorrow New Community Paradigms

Ana Cristina Beja

This model is an attempt to map out a template for a general implementation plan or strategy for the Enabling a Better Tomorrow process for use with New Community Paradigms

Clone of Strategy for Enabling a Better Tomorrow New Community Paradigms

Ana Cristina Beja

The model is designed to provide a general understanding of the wear and tear on roads or a community's circulation system as a result of vehicle traffic generated by development within and outside of a community. It is not based on realistic assumptions regarding those impacts, it simply attempts to convey the flow of influence.

The imaginary city has a set area of roads measured in linear yards (width of roads is ignored) and an assumed number of vehicles on those roads set at 30,000 (per day). With those assumptions the wear and tear requiring repair is .02 or 2% Vehicle wear based on the 30,000 per year. There is also a calculated replacement cost of an additional 3% plus through vehicle wear or 5% per year. An increase in vehicles increases this vehicle wear impact exponentially. The model assumes that there will not be less than 30,000 vehicles.

Expenditures for repair or replacement are set to balance out on an as needed based on 30,000 vehicles. An minimum additional 50 cars from external sources is then assumed. Adding New Homes and/or New Businesses places an even greater burden on the circulation system.

The model does not consider additional funding. This will be added as a political factor but would need to consider the possibility of decreasing funding for other purposes.

Future additions to the model will include an inflation factor. Unfunded road work will get increasingly more expensive over time. Also a diminished revenue factor. A lack of capacity of the community's roads could likely result in a diminishment of the community's business sector thus reducing sales and property taxes and municipal revenue to expend on the roads.

Clone of Calculating Road Wear and Tear on Community Roads

john white

Un modello per l'effetto di alcuni fattori (T, pH, aW, conservanti) e della competizione/amensalismo sulla crescita di una comunità microbica semplificata (Listeria monocytogenes, Latilactobacillus sakei) negli alimenti.

Lo scopo del modello è illustrare concetti come:

a. la crescita in assenza o in presenza di competizione/amensalismo

b. l'effetto delle interazioni microbiche

c. l'effetto di alcuni fattori ambientali e tecnologici

Il sistema potrebbe ragionevolmente rappresentare un insaccato fermentato durante la produzione. Tuttavia non ho inserito quelli che potrebbero essere effetti di declino delle popolazioni dovuti alle condizioni avverse durante la stagionatura e conservazione.

Clone of Dinamica di una comunità microbica negli alimenti

claudio

This model is an attempt to map out a template for a general implementation plan or strategy for the Enabling a Better Tomorrow process for use with New Community Paradigms

Clone of Strategy for Enabling a Better Tomorrow New Community Paradigms

Patricio Rodriguez Valiente

The model is designed to provide a general understanding of the wear and tear on roads or a community's circulation system as a result of vehicle traffic generated by development within and outside of a community. It is not based on realistic assumptions regarding those impacts, it simply attempts to convey the flow of influence.

The imaginary city has a set area of roads measured in linear yards (width of roads is ignored) and an assumed number of vehicles on those roads set at 30,000 (per day). With those assumptions the wear and tear requiring repair is .02 or 2% Vehicle wear based on the 30,000 per year. There is also a calculated replacement cost of an additional 3% plus through vehicle wear or 5% per year. An increase in vehicles increases this vehicle wear impact exponentially. The model assumes that there will not be less than 30,000 vehicles.

Expenditures for repair or replacement are set to balance out on an as needed based on 30,000 vehicles. An minimum additional 50 cars from external sources is then assumed. Adding New Homes and/or New Businesses places an even greater burden on the circulation system.

The model does not consider additional funding. This will be added as a political factor but would need to consider the possibility of decreasing funding for other purposes.

Future additions to the model will include an inflation factor. Unfunded road work will get increasingly more expensive over time. Also a diminished revenue factor. A lack of capacity of the community's roads could likely result in a diminishment of the community's business sector thus reducing sales and property taxes and municipal revenue to expend on the roads.

Clone of Calculating Road Wear and Tear on Community Roads

JF White

There has been an ongoing effort to find a means of making systems thinking accessible and readily adopted by others not familiar with systems thinking. One line of thinking places a good deal of the blame on systems thinkers themselves, the problem is that they have not found a good enough method of explaining it and its benefits yet.

Another possibility though is the extent to which those who are to be helped feel besieged by the situation in which they find themselves making them extremely wary about trying something new.

This model is not realistic, at least it is hoped that there isn't anyplace where things are this bad. Different communities will be better or worse off in different categories and some will be succeeding in all areas. Those are the communities we need to learn from.

More explanation can be found under the information icons associated with each of the elements.

Clone of Complexity, Corruption and False Complacency assailing our Communities

sub cribed

The model is designed to provide a general understanding of the wear and tear on roads or a community's circulation system as a result of vehicle traffic generated by development within and outside of a community. It is not based on realistic assumptions regarding those impacts, it simply attempts to convey the flow of influence.

The imaginary city has a set area of roads measured in linear yards (width of roads is ignored) and an assumed number of vehicles on those roads set at 30,000 (per day). With those assumptions the wear and tear requiring repair is .02 or 2% Vehicle wear based on the 30,000 per year. There is also a calculated replacement cost of an additional 3% plus through vehicle wear or 5% per year. An increase in vehicles increases this vehicle wear impact exponentially. The model assumes that there will not be less than 30,000 vehicles.

Expenditures for repair or replacement are set to balance out on an as needed based on 30,000 vehicles. An minimum additional 50 cars from external sources is then assumed. Adding New Homes and/or New Businesses places an even greater burden on the circulation system.

The model does not consider additional funding. This will be added as a political factor but would need to consider the possibility of decreasing funding for other purposes.

Future additions to the model will include an inflation factor. Unfunded road work will get increasingly more expensive over time. Also a diminished revenue factor. A lack of capacity of the community's roads could likely result in a diminishment of the community's business sector thus reducing sales and property taxes and municipal revenue to expend on the roads.

Clone of Calculating Road Wear and Tear on Community Roads

Damaris Harmon

The model is designed to provide a general understanding of the wear and tear on roads or a community's circulation system as a result of vehicle traffic generated by development within and outside of a community. It is not based on realistic assumptions regarding those impacts, it simply attempts to convey the flow of influence.

The imaginary city has a set area of roads measured in linear yards (width of roads is ignored) and an assumed number of vehicles on those roads set at 30,000 (per day). With those assumptions the wear and tear requiring repair is .02 or 2% Vehicle wear based on the 30,000 per year. There is also a calculated replacement cost of an additional 3% plus through vehicle wear or 5% per year. An increase in vehicles increases this vehicle wear impact exponentially. The model assumes that there will not be less than 30,000 vehicles.

Expenditures for repair or replacement are set to balance out on an as needed based on 30,000 vehicles. An minimum additional 50 cars from external sources is then assumed. Adding New Homes and/or New Businesses places an even greater burden on the circulation system.

The model does not consider additional funding. This will be added as a political factor but would need to consider the possibility of decreasing funding for other purposes.

Future additions to the model will include an inflation factor. Unfunded road work will get increasingly more expensive over time. Also a diminished revenue factor. A lack of capacity of the community's roads could likely result in a diminishment of the community's business sector thus reducing sales and property taxes and municipal revenue to expend on the roads.

Clone of Calculating Road Wear and Tear on Community Roads

sub cribed

Un modello per l'effetto di alcuni fattori (T, pH, aW, conservanti) e della competizione/amensalismo sulla crescita di una comunità microbica semplificata (Listeria monocytogenes, Latilactobacillus sakei) negli alimenti.

Lo scopo del modello è illustrare concetti come:

a. la crescita in assenza o in presenza di competizione/amensalismo

b. l'effetto delle interazioni microbiche

c. l'effetto di alcuni fattori ambientali e tecnologici

Il sistema potrebbe ragionevolmente rappresentare un insaccato fermentato durante la produzione. Tuttavia non ho inserito quelli che potrebbero essere effetti di declino delle popolazioni dovuti alle condizioni avverse durante la stagionatura e conservazione.

Clone of Dinamica di una comunità microbica negli alimenti

ThomasD

3 months ago

Un modello per l'effetto di alcuni fattori (T, pH, aW, conservanti) e della competizione/amensalismo sulla crescita di una comunità microbica semplificata (Listeria monocytogenes, Latilactobacillus sakei) negli alimenti.

Lo scopo del modello è illustrare concetti come:

a. la crescita in assenza o in presenza di competizione/amensalismo

b. l'effetto delle interazioni microbiche

c. l'effetto di alcuni fattori ambientali e tecnologici

Il sistema potrebbe ragionevolmente rappresentare un insaccato fermentato durante la produzione. Tuttavia non ho inserito quelli che potrebbero essere effetti di declino delle popolazioni dovuti alle condizioni avverse durante la stagionatura e conservazione.

Clone of Dinamica di una comunità microbica negli alimenti

Martina Lagonigro

Un modello per l'effetto di alcuni fattori (T, pH, aW, conservanti) e della competizione/amensalismo sulla crescita di una comunità microbica semplificata (Listeria monocytogenes, Latilactobacillus sakei) negli alimenti.

Lo scopo del modello è illustrare concetti come:

a. la crescita in assenza o in presenza di competizione/amensalismo

b. l'effetto delle interazioni microbiche

c. l'effetto di alcuni fattori ambientali e tecnologici

Il sistema potrebbe ragionevolmente rappresentare un insaccato fermentato durante la produzione. Tuttavia non ho inserito quelli che potrebbero essere effetti di declino delle popolazioni dovuti alle condizioni avverse durante la stagionatura e conservazione.

Clone of Dinamica di una comunità microbica negli alimenti

Veronica Minici

Un modello per l'effetto di alcuni fattori (T, pH, aW, conservanti) e della competizione/amensalismo sulla crescita di una comunità microbica semplificata (Listeria monocytogenes, Latilactobacillus sakei) negli alimenti.

Lo scopo del modello è illustrare concetti come:

a. la crescita in assenza o in presenza di competizione/amensalismo

b. l'effetto delle interazioni microbiche

c. l'effetto di alcuni fattori ambientali e tecnologici

Il sistema potrebbe ragionevolmente rappresentare un insaccato fermentato durante la produzione. Tuttavia non ho inserito quelli che potrebbero essere effetti di declino delle popolazioni dovuti alle condizioni avverse durante la stagionatura e conservazione.

Clone of Dinamica di una comunità microbica negli alimenti

Giovanni Albano

Un modello per l'effetto di alcuni fattori (T, pH, aW, conservanti) e della competizione/amensalismo sulla crescita di una comunità microbica semplificata (Listeria monocytogenes, Latilactobacillus sakei) negli alimenti.

Lo scopo del modello è illustrare concetti come:

a. la crescita in assenza o in presenza di competizione/amensalismo

b. l'effetto delle interazioni microbiche

c. l'effetto di alcuni fattori ambientali e tecnologici

Il sistema potrebbe ragionevolmente rappresentare un insaccato fermentato durante la produzione. Tuttavia non ho inserito quelli che potrebbero essere effetti di declino delle popolazioni dovuti alle condizioni avverse durante la stagionatura e conservazione.

Clone of Dinamica di una comunità microbica negli alimenti

Emanuele Cottino