Groups would pick up ideas from other groups by example. Local involvement would reduce the need to travel. As well as empowering people to create community, this pattern would result in our cities becoming more diverse and interesting places. People club together to build their own group of houses. Typically there are 15 to 35 self sufficient homes clustered around a common house with shared facilities such as a dining room, workshops, home- office space with equipment, child care area and recreational area.
Cars are parked on the edge, there is common green space.
Diversity of ages, family structures, race, heritage and economic levels is seen as a strength. Conformism People of course network beyond their immediate area, often with thousands of others. Without a binding force, society would fall apart as each individual or group pursues its own interests. For EP it was the instinct to conform which caused cooperative tribes to survive and selfish tribes to die out. It enabled tribes to act with a common purpose, and it is one of the attributes which set us apart and allowed our species to dominate all others.