Small businesses often evicted to make way for new projects. Plan emphasizes central role of small businesses. Community remains primarily an importer of goods and services, economically dependent. Community develops goods and services to export or use itself. Emphasis on economic self-sufficiency.
Money coming into the community flows out again quickly. .
Money coming into the community is recirculated using community-based commercial and financial institutions such as credit unions and cooperatives. Outward physical order conceals inner social disintegration and alienation. Anarchistic, jumbled or even decaying facade conceals a well-functioning and complex social system. Plan relies on numbers, dollars, and aggregated phenomena. Plan relies on individual experiences, stories, mutual hopes, and dreams.