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🏠🌆 My First Organized Community 🌱📚
✨🏡🌆 I was born in Mengo Hospital. My parents were teachers (and residents) at Mengo Primary School, and we attended Namirembe Cathedral. We lived within a 20-minute walk of everything we needed—school, market, hospital, movie library, salon, tailor, bank, and church. It was all there. My parents lived in a close-knit community of teachers’ residences…
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How Organized Communities Are Formed 🌍🏡👨🏿👩🏿👧🏿👦🏿
There are numerous ways in which communities form. Humans are biologically social creatures, so we tend to prefer living together. For most of human history, this was necessary for survival—we needed to be able to defend ourselves against predators and other enemies. 🦁🔒🛡🏿 However, in the past 500 years, some patterns have emerged as reliable,…
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Why live in an (organized) community? 🌿🏡✨
It’s hard to overstate the difference in how neighborhoods were organized in the 90s compared to the fenced single-family homes that have become the default of the 21st century. 🌍🏘️💭 Consider a picture of children playing hide and seek outside, climbing trees, and running after each other. Now, contrast that with the isolation that is…