**Pattern Name:**
**Introduction:**
There must be safe places for neighborhood conversations, planning, organizing, working, and celebrating.
**Illustration:**
**CONTEXT:**
**Initial Situation:**
**PROBLEM:**
Development is often managed levels lacking requisite variety for the problems of concern.
Development often benefits the developers more than the inhabitants.
**Forces:**
Local needs
Lack of citizen engagement
Outside control
Expert control
Extractive financial arrangements.
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**Actions:**
**Consequences:**
**Known Uses:**
**Examples:**
Co-op methods
Group modeling
**Important Know-How:**
Local finance
Volunteerism
**Notes:**
**CONNECTED PATTERNS:** **Supported Patterns:** **Supporting Patterns:**