Calculating Road Wear and Tear on Community Roads
Brian Dowling
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.
- 6 years 6 months ago
Jackson's Framework for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 5 months ago
Perspectives on Csikszentmihalyi's views on Complexity vs Complicated
Brian Dowling
- 4 years 8 months ago
New Organizational Learning Inhibited through Bureaucratic Over Complicatedness & Corruption
Brian Dowling
BCTD Systcp DDDI Participatory Democracy Disruptive Innovation NCP
- 6 years 6 months ago
Strategy for Enabling a Better Tomorrow New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Participatory Democracy with Systems Thinking
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- 6 years 6 months ago
New Community Paradigms Entrenched City Halls
Brian Dowling
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.
- 5 years 1 month ago
Complexity vs Complicated
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Complexity, Corruption and False Complacency assailing our Communities
Brian Dowling
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.
- 6 years 6 months ago
Account Payable Reduction Campaign Example for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Assumptions - AR Period Reduction Example adopted for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Thinking About Thinking About Systems
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Complexity assailing our Communities
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Model - AR Period Reduction Example adopted for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Situation - AR Period Reduction Example adopted for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
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Strategy - AR Period Reduction Example adopted for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
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Leverage - AR Period Reduction Example adopted for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
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Stakeholders - AR Period Reduction Example adopted for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Systems Archetypes New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Elements, Relationships, Models, and Plays
Brian Dowling
- 2 years 7 months ago
Democracy deciding which side of the road before deciding destination
Brian Dowling
Owner, Thorbjoern Mann Consulting for an blog article:A topic map for a systems thinking discussion on participatory democracy created on a Systems Thinking in Action LinkedIn group discussion regarding Better Participatory Democracy Through Systems Thinking which in turn was based on two 'story' models A 'Better World' thru Systems Thinking and Participatory Democracy with Systems Thinking, and their respective blog posts.
A couple of liberties were taken with this version or interpretation. The original model did not have arrows, so it is my interpretation as to direction. Stocks were chosen because of presentation. It does not imply quantity. Certain elements in the original model were not enclosed in boxes. These were assigned to variable primitives to differentiate them from boxed elements. The Insightmaker Folder capability was used to group what appeared to be common elements together. The Folders can be opens by clicking the + sign in each folder.
- 6 years 6 months ago
Boundaries - AR Period Reduction Example adopted for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
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Behavior - AR Period Reduction Example adopted for New Community Paradigms
Brian Dowling
- 6 years 6 months ago
Ponzi Growth Scheme Strong Towns
Brian Dowling
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.
- 6 years 6 months ago