| Low-cost | $75,000 to $250,000 per housing unit:
- A profound change in the way things are built
- A significant change in teh finances of construction
- A way of providing system integration and rational performance driven design
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| Secure | Controlled access, with protection against fire, storms, water damage, and pornography |
| Housing | Between 1 and 10 bedroom units reconfigurable within the community framework |
| Community | Highest and best land use, juxtapositioning a large building mass which encloses all of the housing units with nature to the benefit of both |
| Framework | Shared utilities - including heating, cooling, waste treatment and recycling, intelligent networks, automatic mail and package delivery - and soundproof connected housing enclosures |
| Exceptional Amenities | Anticipated to include
housing built around people instead of around automobiles:
encouraging walking and jogging as alternative use of Segway trails:
- Personal Pampering:
- Spa
- Mud Baths
- Tanning Decks
- Pedicure and Manicure
- Exercise Facilities:
- Weight Rooms with treadmills, step machines, cycles, etc.
- Community swimming pools
- Tennis, Racketball, and Badmitten Courts
- Hiking trails in surrounding Katy Praire Conservancy Properties
- Social Facilities:
- Golf Course
- Stocked catfish ponds
- Clay Pigeon and Target Shooting Range
- Trail Riding
- Rooms for Pool Tables and Ping Pong Tables
- Video Arcade Rooms
- Community Basketball Court / Dance Hall / Concert Hall
- Community Theater and Opera House
- Bowling Alley
- Potters Wheels and Kiln
- Recording Studios for musicians and choirs
- Community Flower and Rose Gardens
- Community Vegetable Garden
- Antique Car Workshops and Storage
- Education Facilities:
- Community Library with connection to Houston and Katy Libraries
- Highspeed Internet Connection
- Craft Areas
- Classrooms, wired for virtual presentations by anyone on the web
- Housing Units optionally wired for access to community edited television and education programs
- Virtual Reality Theaters
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| Data |
- Geological
- Geophysical:
- Microseismicity
- Reflection Seismic
- Gravity
- Magnetics
- Electrical
- Structure
- Stratigraphy
- Oil and Gas
- Soils and Gravels
- Hydrology:
- Surface Water
- Drainage
- Groundwater
- Biological:
- Bacteria
- Worms
- Fish
- Grasses and Prarie Restoration and understanding of Endangered Species
- Bushes
- Wildflowers, Flowers, Antique Texas Roses, and Dried Grasses
- Herbs
- Farmer's Market as a Fuction of Crops and Crop Patterns
- Trees and Reforestation
- Insects
- Amphibians
- Reptiles
- Mammals:
- Prarie Dog Communities (Tourist Attraction as at Lubbock)
- Buffalo
- Longhorn Cattle
- Social:
- Demographics (Population Characteristics)
- Transportation
- Private Property Information
- Commercial Property Information
- Employment
- Infrastructure:
- Gas
- Water
- Sewer
- Power
- Communication
- Economics
- Other
- Temperature (Lows, Average, Highs), Pressure, Humidity, % Sunshine, % Frost
- Atmospheric, including Rainfall, Wind (Average and Maximum)
- Lightening
- Astronomical
- Astrophysical
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| Data Mining | - Spatial Trends
- Temporal Trends
- Process Trends
- Data Type Trends
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| Patterns | - Spatial Patterns from integration of Spatial Trends
- Temporal from integration of >Temporal Trends
- Process Patterns from integration of Process Trends
- Data Type Patterns from integration of Data Type Trends
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Models
(Information Designing) | - Process Cycles
- Building Processes and Timelines
- Building Models
- Operation Models
- Economic Models
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| Participants | - Individuals and families who want low-cost secure housing with exceptional amenities:
- Home Owners
- Investors
- Scientists studying the process
- Community Customers
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| Home Owners | - Individuals and families who want low-cost secure housing with exceptional amenities:
- Idealistic Single Adults who catch the vision and want to demonstrate change
- Husbands and Wives (Core long-term stable home owners):
- Children
- Grandparents
- Uncles and Aunts
- Extended Families
(Note credits for extended family participants because they will help discipline children)
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